ملف ٢٧٦٨/١٩١٣ "الاتجار بالأسلحة: مستودع مسقط؛ مطالبات الشركات البريطانية" [و‎‎١‎٥‎٦] (٦٤٥/٣١٧)

laubenburg & CO., b’ham.
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re6T>oreibility ceased ard tberefora wa annealed to the Sultan
to hel^ ue to obtain payirer.t f ott the Oustorers, the none so as
we ocinted out to hiir, that ^a held a gnecial ^^arwit f-cm Mu
franting ub per®iseion to irrport Fire ArffB X ar-unition into
}, uBcat without let or hindrance, which '^arrit had another S
yeadfc to run beyond the tiwe of the ^ohiMtion*
We believe that this i-'rohifeitioit was for the nurnoBe of etonMrg
the illicit Trade that was being done in India 1 we also hrow
t
that this illicit Trade was chiefly done by French Merchants
resident at luscat. Ab far as we are concerned we assure you
that we have never had the slightest knowledge of what hecane
or the goods after they reached husgat, on the contrary we had
always been in the relief that the goods were bought * used by
the Traders Tribes in Arabia where there has be-n for nary
years ~still is, a legitimate Trade in Fire Arms A Ammunition.
'. !r e sold these goods as Merchants irthe same narrer as we sell
any other 1 erohandize ir India 4 the East, where we have traded
for over 50 years,
we have had a lot of correspondence over this matter witv the
roreign Office « also had an interview t^ere last December with
air waiter Langley, who hae a full knowledge of the whole affair
this business ir which we have innocently suffered,has beep a
very great lose to us . at the end of the i-terview Sir "alter
Langley aynnathlaed v;it> ue, saying that it was a hard case i
heavy covpersation frcir H • V .Gov ernrert•
Cur 'd custorers, who probably aiso 3rs ’ r '
olved in the il'icit