سياسي (خارجي) ٧٦٢٩\١٩٣٤ "مطالبة السادة وونكهاوس المتعلقة بأكسيد أبو موسى" [و‎‎١‎٧] (٥٧/٣٢)

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RED OXIDE ON ABU WSA .
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A concession, subsequently approved by the ruling
Sheikh, was granted in April 1898 by the Regent of shargah
to certain Arabs. On 1st June 1906 one of those Arabs
entered into a contract with Herr Wonckhaus to sell him
from 2,000 t© 5000 tons of red oxide annually for a period
of four years from the date of the contract. On 21st
February 1907 the Sheikh of Shargah cancelled the
concession on the ground, inter alia , that the
concessionaire in question had entered into his contract
with Herr Wonckhaus without the Sheikhas approval.
Herr Wonckhaus appealed to the German Government and a
lengthy dispute ensued which was on the point of settlement
at the outbreak of the War.
2. npfliQftEy After considerable $&&&&£&> discussion,
it was agreed that Y/onckhaus and Co. had cause for
complaint, though H.M.G. never admitted that the Sheikh had
not acted within his full rights. After further
considerable preliminary discussion the firm in September
1913 agreed to abandon their case on the understanding that
H.M.G. would refund their direct losses to them. They
claimed an average sale price of 65s/- per ton for red
oxide, or an average net profit of 35s/3d and it appeared
that they had in all shipped 3,210 tons (or possibly
3,610 tons) of red oxide from Abu Musa as against the
8 000 to 20,000 which they were entitled to ship during the ■
four years of their contract. The Board of Trade held,
however, that the Company were entitled to compensation
only in respect of the amount that might have been shipped
during the unexpired period of the contract at the minimum
contract/