'File No. II/12 Foreign Dept Memoranda of Information re: affairs in Persia and Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf. Jan '09 --' [‎80v] (160/178)

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On the 25tb June, His Majesty’s Secretary
of State communicated the approval of Bis
Majesty’s Government to the proposals. In
concurring with the suggestion of the Govern
ment of India to leave it to the discretion of the
Political Kesident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. to decide
w r hen it would be opportune to make the
announcement to the Sheikhs concerned, the
Secretary of State for India considered it desir
able that Major Cox should consult Sir
G. Barclay, His Britannic Majesty’s Minister
at Tehran, as to how far the proposal to in
crease the salute of the Sheikh of Mohammerah
was affected by the Sheikh’s position as a
Persian subject. He asked to he furnished
with a further report on the question in due
course, as the Admiralty wished to be officially
informed of the date when the arrangements
came into force. The Naval Commander-in-
Chief, East Indies Squadron, had been
directed to instruct the Commanding Officers
of His Majesty’s Ships in the Gulf to act on
the above scale of salutes when requested to do
so by the Political Itcsident.
Major Cox was informed in the above
terms on the 26th July and he was asked
to submit a report of his proceedings in due
course.
12. {Fide paragraph 22 of the Memo-
Loan to the Sheikh of randum for May 1909.)
Koweit The Sheikh of Koweit,
in June last, expressed his gratitude for the
grant of the loan and accepted the conditions
attached thereto.
13. (Vide paragraph 15 of the Memo
randum for June 1909.)
Abu Musa red oxide. The Secretary of State
intimated on the 1st
July that the German Government had
been informed that the mining operations
complained of were for the extraction of a few
hundred tons of oxide as a sample for a firm
interested in the trade and “ had now ceased ”,
that the German Embassy had enquired orally
as to whether this meant that the oxide would
not be shipped, and stated that, if this was not
meant, the German Government protested
against the shipment, and asked for it to be
stopped. In reply, the Embassy was informed
that the words in question meant that the
mining operations had ceased, but not that the
shipments had been stopped. The shipment,
it was added, had presumably already taken
place. The Secretary of State asked for a
report on the facts of the case.
On the 3rd July, the Political Besident
in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. reported as follows
On the 15th June, the steamship “Gulistan”
arrived at Abu Musa and left on the ] 9th June,
alter shipping as much of the specially mined
sample oxide as the liesidency Agent had
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