"ملف رقم II/١٢ مذكرات معلومات من إدارة الخارجية بخصوص شؤون بلاد فارس والساحل العربي من الخليج الفارسي. يناير "٠٩ --" [ظ‎‎٤‎١] (١٧٨/٨٢)

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•arid expressed the opinion ihat, if there was a
Unef entitled to such support, it was the
©neikh ot JVIohammerah, and if there was
a part of Southern I’ersia where British
interests specially demanded protection against
foreign competition or intrigue, it was the
mouth ot the Karun.
In reply, the Secretary of State tele
graphed on the Kith April to the effect that he
had communicated the foregoing telegram to
the Foreign Office, and had intimated that he
adhered to his view that no charge should on
this account be laid upon Indian revenues.
JJe saw no objection to the suggestion that
the Sheikh might be given general assurances
that, if money were required by him for any
purpose to which the British Government had
no objection, they would do what they could to
laciiitate his obtaining it from British sources.
• . On the 29th April, the Political Resident
inthelersian Gulf telegraphed that, it had
been reported by His Majesty's Consul
Ahwaz, that the Sheikh was alleged to have
contracted a loan of £10,000 from the Germans,
ilie rumour has not as yet been confirmed.
His Majesty's Consul at, Mohammerah, who
a 'card nothing of the rumour, is making
enquiries in the matter. °
U - (Tideparagraph 11 of the Memo.
Relations of the ran dum for March
Sneikh of Mohammerah 1909). Maior Cox inti-
witn the Persian Gov- nmtorl n +1 ^,
ernment. mated, on the 5th
o- T , r , , . , April, with reference to
bn R. Grey s instructions as to the assurances
to be given to the Sheikh, that these might
satisfy the Sheikh so far as concerned the
contingency of the break up of Persia or of
intervention by Foreign Powers, but that
H° U d *r qmre some de finite reply as to
whether the guarantees already riven to
VT. I1 ^ ' ,dei 1 1 protection against intrenchment
Ins rights by a possible constitutional regime
and also in regard to an extension of existin''
guarantees to his immediate offspring. °
In reply, Major Cox was instructed by Sir
G. Barclay to inform the Sheikh that His
Majesty s Government, were ready to give him
the same support against any encroachment on
Jus lights as was promised him in 1902 ($pp
paragraph 17of the Memoranaumfor January
1909) whatever change of Government there
might hem Persia. Major Cox was also To
itmind him that the assurances of His
Majesty s Government had already been ex
tended to his successors, so that, as his offspring
would presumably succeed him, the assurances
did m fact already apply to them. If, how
ever, this did not satisfy the Sheikh, there was
no objection to extending the guarantee
already given, to “ his heirs and successors.”