'File No. II/9 Foreign Dept Memoranda of Information re. affairs in Persian Gulf, Maskat & Arabian Shore of the Persian Gulf. Nov '07 - Dec '08.' [‎54v] (110/132)

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186. On the 24th July 1908, Major Cox,
The appointment by 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.
the Bombay and Persian in the rersian LrUil,
panT o 3 ?“^ at i 0 gen C t° at r e p o r t e d t h a t the
Bushire. Persian who had been
for some years the Agent for the Bombay and
Persian Steam Navigation Company at Bushire
had died, and that several persons, among
whom was a party of German employes, were
intriguing to secure the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. . Major Cox
remarked that the line was under the British
flag and was identified with pilgrim traffic,
consequently that it was important that the
Company’s Agent should be a man in whom
full reliance could be placed. Major Cox was
of opinion that it would be helpful if the Poli
tical Department in Bombay could communi
cate and support any reference made by him
to the head-quarters of the Company in ques
tion, warning them of the necessity for the
exercise of great caution in the selection ot
the new Agent who, in the interest of the
companv, should be an individual who could
be relied on by the British Consul-General
at Bushire.
The Bombay Government who were in
formed on the 27th July of Major Cox’s
views in the matter intimated on the 14th
August that the Governor in Council was
prepared to support any representation that
Major Cox might make to the Bombay and
Persian Steam Navigation Company with the
object of securing a suitable Agent at Bushire,
and that they had informed that officer accord-
ino-lv. Later, on the 1st September, the Bombay
Government reported that the Agent, Bombay
and Persian Steam Navigation Company, had
indicated that he had appointed a new Agent
at Bushire on the 21st July, and that in select
ing him the Company had been influenced by
the importance of the fact that he should be
a man in whom both the British Government
and their representative can feel complete
confidence. The Agent added that Major
Cox had apparently not been made fully
acquainted with the actual facts and of the
antecedents of his nominee, as had they been
known to him as well as they were to the
Company’s Agent they would have sufficiently
provided for his rejection as one absolutely
unfit for the position in question.
187 On the 26th August, the Secretary
PERSIAN GULP. of State f ° r Illdia
Installation of wire
less telegraphy on
vessels employed in the
called for the views of
the Government of
_ . India as to the desir-
ibility of fitting the three subsidised vessels
employed in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. with apparatus
for wireless telegraphy.
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