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File 4949/1912 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf: Abu Musa oxide’ [194r] (396/566)
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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carry a,way the mined oxide in spite of protests from
the Sheikh of ohar^ah and the other concessionnaires,
primaliljs beca.use His Majesty 1 s G-overnment seemed to
have understood at the time that it had been mined for
wonckhaus - which it had not-, but mainly for the
speciiic object of discountii^ Wonckhaus’s claim for
loss of business. As a favour we resigned the whole
of the 5210 tons on the island to Wonckhaus, so that he
might not have the pretext that he had been put to
loss. In my opinion, having regard to the normal
scale on which the mining was always carried on up to
the time of Wonckhaus f s contract, &nd which scale
Wonckhaus showed no inclination to (get) modify, Hassan
Samaiyeh could not have mined more than, and with great
difficulty as much as, 2000 tons per year; Wonckhaus
merely stated a maximum of 5000 tons in order to rake
quite sufce that Hassan should have none to spare for
anyone else.
Let us presume that he could have taken 2000 tons
per year - from June 1906 to June 1912 - 7 years.
Then he would have taken 14,000 tons* In point of fact
we have given him the opportunity of taking 5000 odd
tons, so he may conceivably have lost the sale of 9,000
tons if there w as a mar ket , but it is very doubtful if
there was one. This figure is much the same as that
at which the Board of Trade arrive on different lines
in para. 12.
Bara. 15. I recommend that the information be obtained by tele
gram from Bushire, and without reference to Messrs.
Wonckhaus. When that is obtained I would suggest
that before we do anything further the expert views of
Hr. Strick be taken informally and confidentially as a
preliminary
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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)
- Arrangement
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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- Title
- File 4949/1912 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf: Abu Musa oxide’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:7v, 10r:13v, 15r:24v, 28r:29v, 32r:35v, 41r:48v, 51r:52v, 54r:67v, 74r:75v, 77r:81v, 84r:90v, 92r:94v, 96r:100v, 102r:116v, 117ar:117av, 117r:119v, 119ar:119av, 120r:141v, 153r:180v, 182r:183v, 185r:215v, 218r:222v, 227r:236v, 238r:257v, 260r:260v, 262r:278v, back-i
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