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File 4949/1912 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf: Abu Musa oxide’ [‎191r] (390/566)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (277 folios). It was created in 26 Oct 1912-15 May 1923. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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stuff as he pleased, and that no claim could be enter
al tained in regard to it. He then took it.
Subsequently when he was allowed by us to ship some
of the accumulated oxide for Wonckhaus he took some gear
otic^ aAain, and between shipments, the roof of his locker
store/fell in, and the islanders were said to have removed
a few things. Hassan Samaiyeh then at Wonckhaus’s instig
ation put in an extravagant claim, which included things
which he said he had lost when his gear was thrown out of
the island under the circumstances above-mentioned.
The German firm first claimed that the gear was
partly owned by them as members of the concession, but
this claim was not recognised. They were told that seeing
that Wonckhaus contract was "f.o.b.” and that he had
himself stated publicly in a letter to the*press that
’’there never were any goods of ours on the island" 5^
Letter to London ’’Standard" dated 17th he could really have no
December 1908, referred to in
Bushire Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. Letter da,ted title to make such a claim,
12th January 1908 (?19G9) to
Government of India. but as he stated that some
landings, planks, and 3 or 4 iron buckets belonging to a
Hamburg-Amerika ship had been left there, we contemplated
paying them the value of these, if their presence there
could be proved.
My opinion therefore is that we should refuse to
consider their right to identity themselves with Hassan
Samaiyeh’s claim for the concessionnaire’s ordinary
loading gear (bags, crow-bars, &c.), but that we should
refund him the small amount due for the few articles
above mentioned without further question.
It should be a very small amount. The l ist and value
is o n record at Bushire, and I do not think it would be
worth while bothering about the evidence. To prove it
would

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Copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the mining of red oxide on the island of Abū Mūsá in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , before and after the First World War. The volume’s principal correspondents are: the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox); Foreign Office officials (chiefly Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe); representatives of the British firm Frank C Strick & Company Limited (including Frank Clarke Strick); representatives of the German firm Robert Wönckhaus & Company.

Correspondence dated 1912 to 1913 refers to informal negotiations between Foreign and India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. representatives, the German Ambassador to London, and Robert Wönckhaus & Company, over the payment of compensation to Robert Wönckhaus & Company for loss of income and the relinquishment of concession rights for the mining of red oxide at Abū Mūsá, in the wake of the withdrawal of the concession by the Ruler of Sharjah, Shaikh Seker [Shaikh Ṣaqr bin Khālid Āl Qāsimī One of the ruling families of the United Arab Emirates; also used to refer to a confederation of seafaring Arabs led by the Qāsimī tribe from Ras al Khaima. ] in 1907.

Correspondence dated 1914 concerns assessments, submitted by representatives of Frank C Strick & Company Limited, and analysed by the British Government’s Board of Trade, on the value and deterioration in quality of the red oxide left by Robert Wönckhaus & Co at Abū Mūsá.

Correspondence dated 1921 to 1923 relates to: Frank C Strick & Company’s concession negotiations with the Shaikh of Sharjah, over red oxide extraction at Abū Mūsá, mediated through the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; reports of concession negotiations undertaken by Persian commercial interests for red oxide mining on the island of Hormuz [Jazīreh-ye Hormoz, also referred to in the volume as Ormuz]; diplomatic exchanges between representatives of the British and Persian Government (some in French) over historic Persian claims to the islands in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , including Abū Mūsá and Tamb [Tunb].

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1 volume (277 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

The subject 4949 (Abu Musa oxide) consists of six volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/318-323. The volumes are divided into six parts, with each part comprising one volume. Part 6 (IOR/L/PS/10/323) is missing.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 279; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

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