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File 4949/1912 Pt 5 Persian Gulf: Abu Musa oxide [28v] (56/592)
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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Aldullah-bin-IIassanSamieh to Nejef-bin-Nakhoda Ali Ahmed Saleh,
(Translation.) __ Calcutta, 1st Shaaban, 1S22 iOctober 11 1904)
After compliments and enquiries after your health. I have this day written you a
lette 1 by post and enlightened you therein of what was necessary to be stated
God willing it will find you in good health. necessary to ne stated.
I have informed you especially that a settlement has been made between us and
llaMd bassoon by compromise and reconciliation. And let it not be hidden from you
you s72it I mot Ha J‘ Ali Paased away, there is need for a ^ow /om
you so that I may sign for you in the papers appertaining to the compromise
because in the beginning there was in our hand a power from your father Haii Ali’
[statmg] that I was his agent m Calcutta, and after your father’s death 1 informed
[them] that you were m your father s place ; and the court demanded that you should
write a power for me setting forth that you are the attorney and executor of the will
of your father, and also that I am agent in Calcutta on your behalf in the Sassoon case
and lor the oxide, &c., and the power should be [written] in English in accordance with
,md rT S aJ .! Iv laS P assed a ' va y a,llJ i(; is necessary that the court should
understand that Haji Ah has no son beside you. Therefore, in order to settle the
afiairs 1 have written in your name a special power in the case of oxide and our
d,sprite with Sassoon [saying] that what we now arrange with Sassoon for settlement by
compiomise is agreed upon by you. ^ I intended sending the power by registered post
by this mail.but it was not ready. This is for your information, and, God wiling it will
reach you by registered post next mail.
You should act upon the instructions which I will now explain to you
\\ hen you receive the power, you should take it to the resident or British vice-
consu and assistant resident at Bunder Abbas. He will read it over to yon and you
s ould admit before him that this power is from you to me and that I am your ao-ent in
Caicutta in the same way asm the days of your father, and affix your signature-Neief-
bin-Ah-Ahmed-Saleh m the place which is marked in pencil, then the resident or vice-
consul will record his testimony and seal it with the Government seal. You should
forward it soon and avoid procrastination and delay and you should send it to me by
iegistered post to Calcutta soon and without delay. On the same day when it reaches
you, you should take it to the resident or the assistant who is now present at Bunder
Abbas. I have written you th.s letter by this mail so that you niy know that you
receive the power by registered post. 1 am sending you this letter in my father’s
letter and have forwarded another letter to you by post. Surely I will write you by the
next mail also with the power. ^ LUt5
Your letters to me should continue without interruption as before when Haii Ali
continuously kept me informed of the situation and of the reports. This is what was
necessary to he said at present. God willing, I will settle matters after the receipt of
the power and proceed to your side in Shavval. F
luis is what had to be stated, and may you remain preserved and generous.
Your friend,
ABDULLAH-BIN-HASSAN SAMIEH.
Appendix 20.
Mr. T. J. Malcolm to 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.
.
r i 4U] n i t- , Pushire, December 24:. ISO!
P J< ull ^ h * bm - Sam ieh and Mirza Hussein of the German consulate when in
Bunde*-*TOas lately approached Nejef, the son of the late Nakhoda Ali and one of
ie Partners in the Abu Musa affair m order to obtain a declaration to the effect that
>e IS ejef, was and is^ still agreeable to the continuation of the contract concluded
etween Samieh and Mr. Wonckhaus. I am further told that Nejef had declined to
give Samieh the required declaration. ^ ^ J ea xo
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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)
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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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- File 4949/1912 Pt 5 Persian Gulf: Abu Musa oxide
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- 25v:25v, 28v:28v
- Author
- Malcolm, Tigrane Joseph
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- Samaiyeh, Abdullah bin Hassan
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