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File 4949/1912 Pt 5 Persian Gulf: Abu Musa oxide [‎10r] (19/592)

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The record is made up of 1 file (296 folios). It was created in 10 Feb 1909-13 Jan 1913. It was written in German, 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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p. 27.
"valid, and cannot be terminated without the
consent of the lessees.
His Majesty’s Government are unable to agree
as to the weight to be attached to the opinion of
these merchants; their reasons for considering
that no importance can be attached to the opinions
of Hamd-ibn-Khalifa Al’uyuni, Abdarrahman-ibn-
Muhammed - ibn - Kazim, and Abdalmuhsin - ibn-
Ahmed-ibn-Mushari have been explained above.
With regard to the other merchants whose
opinions are quoted, His Majesty’s Government
cannot from the information at their disposal
accept the description of them given in the
German Memorandum. Abdullah Muhammed
Has san-al-Kh odja is a member of a family which
is ill-disposed to the authorities, and his testi
mony is open to suspicion. Abdullah-ibn-Hassan-
Kalladari is a close friend of Hassan Samieh, and
agentj/of Messrs. Wonckhaus and Co. The
signatories of the document which appears as
Annex 24, are Turkish subjects from Bussorah,
whose views on such a matter are of little weight,
and as they erroneously state that the “agree
ment was concluded in the land of Persia,” their
opinions appear to be founded on a wrong
assumption.
p. 44.
11
In refutation of this evidence the opinions are
submitted of ten representative merchants from
different parts of the littoral (Appendix 11), who
are unanimously of opinion that the lease is void,
because it lacks both the specification of period
and the pronunciation of the legal formula of
proposal and acceptance, which are essential
features of such documents.
pp. 14, With regard to the contention that by religious
law surface mines are the common property of all
Mahommedans, and that an indefeasible right is
acquired by the mere fact of working them, His
Majesty’s Government are somewhat surprised
that such an argument should be seriously put
forward at the present day. It may be that the
clergy of Islam continue in theory to support this
ancient tenet, but it is a matter of common know
ledge that it is now entirely disregarded, and no
attempt could possibly be made to give effect to
it in practice.

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The file is a direct chronological continuation of File 4949/1912 Pt 4 ‘Abu Musa – Angelegenheit. 1907.’ (IOR/L/PS/10/321), containing correspondence exchanged between the German Consulate at Buschär [Bushire] (Helmuth Listemann; Wilhelm Wassmuss) and others: the British Government; the Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh] representative of the German firm Robert Wönckhaus and Company (Herr H Rosenfeld; Herr Krumpeter); the British Political 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Major Arthur Prescott Trevor; Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Zachariah Cox); the German Imperial Government.

The correspondence refers to a dispute over a concession for the mining and shipment of red oxide at Abū Mūsá, originally awarded to Arab merchants by Shaikh Sālim bin Sulṭān 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. of Sharjah in 1898, and part of which was subsequently acquired by Wönckhaus and Company in 1906. The dispute was sparked by the Ruler of Sharjah, Shaikh Ṣaqr bin Khālid Āl Qāsimī’s cancellation of the concession in 1907, and subsequent claims by Wönckhaus and Company and the German Government, over financial losses arising from the cancellation of the concession.

The majority of the file’s correspondence is in German. Official letters exchanged between the German Consul at Bushire and the British 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. are in French.

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1 file (296 folios)
Arrangement

The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end.

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 (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 296; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-296; these numbers are printed.

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