"ملف رقم II/١٢ مذكرات معلومات من إدارة الخارجية بخصوص شؤون بلاد فارس والساحل العربي من الخليج الفارسي. يناير "٠٩ --" [و‎‎٨‎١] (١٧٨/١٦١)

been able to transport to the beach, namely,
about 428 tons. About 170 tons of the sam^
lot still lie at the mouth of the pit and will
remain there.
On receiving the Residency Agent’s report
of the successful conclusion of shipment,
Major Cox instructed him to dispose of trans
port animals, cease operations and submit his
final account. On the 6th July, the Secretary
of State was informed accordingly.
On the 16th June, Abdulla bin Hassan,
one of the ex-concpssionaires, brought over in
a dhow Haji Ali Germani and Messrs.
Wonckhaus’s German representative, to the
island. They landed and tried to engage the
Residency Agent and Sheikh’s man in an
altercation, but eventually returned to their
dhow where they remained until loading oper
ations had been completed on the 19th June.
They set sail for Lingah on that date.
On the 13th July, the Secretary of State
informed the Government of India that,
pending the settlement of the case, the
German Government asked for an under
taking that there should be no further
mining. His Lordship added that the question
of giving ^ pledge was under consideration,
but that, in any case, the controversy had
reached a stage at which no further operations
could be allowed by us in practice, and asked
that instructions might be sent to the Political
Resident in the Persian Gulf. Major Cox
was instructed accordingly on the 14th July.
14. (Vide paragraph 18 of the Jlfeyno-
randum for June
subject! Of the chief of The Political Resident
Abu Thabi by residents i n the Persian Gulf
of Taona. reported, on the 23rd
July, that H. M. S. " Redbreast ” had captured
one of the three murderers on the pearl banks.
The Political Resident has sent him to Abu
Thabi, where he has been kept in custody
pending the result of the endeavours which
are being made to effect the capture of the
other two men.
Abu Thabi and succes
sion of his son, Sheikh
Tahnoon bin Zaoed, to
the Chiefship.
15. On the 27th June, the Political
Death of the Chief of Resident in the Persian
Gulf reported that
Sheikh Zaeed bin
Khalifa, the aged
Sheikh of Abu Thabi, had died on the 19th
May last, and that the succession had passed
to his second son, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zaeed.
The latter wrote to Major Cox informing him
of his assumption of the Chiefship and express
ing his determination to maintain the close
relations which have existed between his
ancestors and the British Government. The
Government of India have provisionally