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PZ 7629/1934 ‘Messrs Wonckhaus’s claim in respect of Abu Musa oxide’ [19r] (36/57)
The record is made up of 1 file (29 folios). It was created in 11 Dec 1934-30 Sep 1935. It was written in English. 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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3
The natter rested at tills stage at the outbreak
of the War,
6
As regards the incidence of cost, a caveat was
officially entered in a letter to the Foreign Office
lump sum In compensation in 1913 that the question of
the division of the cost of any sum paid to Messrs.
Wonckhaus between Imperial and Indian revenues would be
considered later. The departmental minutes of July 1914
on the paper in which the
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.
concurred in the
proposal to offer £2,000 to the firm in the first
instance in final settlement remarked “Indian revenues
will presumably have to bear the whole cost of compensatirg
the firm*.
7* The position is thus briefly that we recognised
in principle that the firm's claim for compensation was
a reasonable one and that H.M.G. were proposing to offer
a lump sum payment of £2,0Q0(fHrTuri compensation, but
that the firm were not unlikely to have claimed
compensation much more closely approximating to £10,000.
Had the discussion not been interrupted by the War it
would not improbably have been necessary to resort to
arbitration by commercial experts with a view to reaching
a decision as to the payment to be made by H.M.G. But it
will be seen that £2*000 was regarded as an entirely
adequate and £3,000 a generous figure by the Board of
Trade after the closest investigation of all the
circumstances and commercial factors in the case with the
assistance of Messrs. Strick.
at the stage when Messrs. W)nckhaus agreed to accept a
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The file contains correspondence and other papers relating to the claim of Robert Wonkhaus and Company, Hamburg, for financial compensation for loss due to the interruption of their contract for purchasing red oxide at Abu Musa from a concessionaire, following the cancellation of the concession by the Shaikh of Shargah [Sharjah]. Negotiations had taken place with the company before the First World War, but the question of compensation due to them was left undecided by the outbreak of the War.
It includes correspondence between M J Clauson, 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. and Gustav Zinnow, a partner in the company Robert Wonkhaus and Company, including a letter from Clauson to Zinnow of 30 September 1939, stating that he is directed to inform Zinnow that there is no prospect of HM Government or the Government of India being able to favourably consider Zinnow’s representations for compensation (folio 2). The file also includes correspondence between Clauson and Thompson, Quarrell and Company, Solicitors, and other related correspondence and papers, such as a statement on the case by Zinnow (folios 20 to 24).
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- 1 file (29 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate reverse chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 29; these numbers are written in pencil, 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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- IOR/L/PS/12/121
- Title
- PZ 7629/1934 ‘Messrs Wonckhaus’s claim in respect of Abu Musa oxide’
- Pages
- 1r:10v, 13r:19v, 27r:29v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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