"ملف رقم II/٩ مذكرات معلومات من إدارة الخارجية بخصوص شؤون الخليج الفارسي ومسقط والساحل العربي من الخليج الفارسي. نوفمبر "٠٧ - ديسمبر "٠٨" [و‎‎٣‎١] (١٣٢/٦٣)

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The views of the Resident were com
municated to the Secretary of State by the
Government of India, who endorsed Major
Cox’s suggestion for the proposed guarantee to
Esa and Nejef, as well as that regarding the
future working of the mines. The instruc
tions of His Majesty’s Government in the
matter of the suit against Hassan were also
invited.
67. On the 29th April, the Resident tele
graphed that the German steamer “Louise”
had carried out her loading undisturbed, but
that she was unable to take the whole quantity
of red oxide. She, however, removed an
amount which Messrs. Wonckhaus and Hassan
mutually accepted as being 1,810 tons, leaving
a balance on the beach estimated by them as
400 tons.
In another telegram of the same date
Major Cox reported that, while the ship was
loading on April the 12th, in the presence of
the Residency Agent, she hoisted the Turkish
flag at the fore. On being asked by the
Agent what this meant, the Dragoman of the
German Consulate denied all knowledge of the
incident. An individual who made similar
enquiries was informed by Hassan and
Abdullah that no Turkish official was on board,
but that the flag had been hoisted because the
Pirate ports and Abu Musa island belonged
to the Turkish Government. The flag was
not hoisted except on the 12th April.
68. On the 15th March 1908, a telegram
Bahrein. from the Political
The floggitig of a Bah- Resident announced
Deputy^Governor ‘o® that, according to a
Lingah. report received from
the Residency Agent at Lingah, the
Deputy Governor, who was in the hands of
Russian and self-styled Turkish Agents, had
flogged and imprisoned a Bahrein subject,
entirely refusing to accept the intervention
of the British Agent on behalf of Bahreinis.
Writing on the 8th March 1908, Major Cox
had drawn attention to the fact that M.
Waffelaert, the Director-General of Customs,
Bushire, in the course of correspondence with
the First Assistant, had, “by virtue of Tehran
circular No. 1361 of the 4th February 1905,”
declined to accept British intervention^ in
two cases concerning subjects of the Sheikhs
of Abu Dbabi and Shargah. The Political
Resident had, in the previous October,
requested His Majesty’s Chargd d’Affaires,
Tehran, to whom he had reported the matter,
to indicate to the Persian Government that
both these Chiefs were under British protection,
and to press for the issue of the necessary
instructions to M. Watfelaert.
69. On the 24th March 1908, the
Secretary of State for India telegraphed to the
Government of India that the action of the