Abstract: The file discusses the concession for red oxide (also known as ferric oxide) which the Golden Valley Ochre and Oxide Company Limited (Eric Innes Pocock) was exploiting at Abu Musa [Abū Mūsā] including the company’s relationship with the Shaikh of Sharjah (Shaikh Sulṭān bin Saqr Āl Qasimī) and working conditions on Abu Musa Island. A copy of the concession agreement for both Abu Musa and Sir Abu Na’air [Şīr Bū Nu‘ayr] can be found at folios 23-27.Also included in the volume is an enquiry on behalf of Imperial Chemical Industries (India) Limited regarding known and potential deposits of red oxide on islands in the Persian Gulf, and existing concessions being exploited for those.There is also some brief correspondence between the Political Officer on the Trucial Coast and the Political Agent Bahrain regarding the company’s use of a wireless transmitter on the island and wireless communications from there to Sharjah.A series of file notes which were maintained as a record of the correspondence in the volume can be found at folios 28-29.Physical description: The main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 30; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-29; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
Abstract: The file discusses possible concessions for red oxide on Dalmah [Dalmā] and Sir Beni Yas [Şīr Banī Yās] Islands, which were under the jurisdiction of the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi (Shaikh Shakhbūt bin Sulṭān bin Zāyid Āl Nahyān).Included in the file is correspondence between the India Office and the Golden Valley Ochre and Oxide Company, which already holds red oxide concessions in the Persian Gulf, regarding its continued interest in expanding its concessions in the region, and making arrangements for its mining engineer at Bu Musa [Abū Mūsā] island, Eric Innes Pocock, to visit the islands and assess their potential.A series of file notes which were maintained as a record of the correspondence in the volume can be found at folios 18-19.Physical description: The main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminated at the inside back cover with 20; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-19; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
Abstract: The file concerns negotiations over the rights of British firms to exploit Hormuz oxide (red oxide of iron) mined on the island of Hormuz. The concession to mine the red oxide there was held, and later lost by Haji Agha Mohamed, Muin-ut-Tujjar (also spelled Mouin and Moin) [Haji Agha Muhammad, Mu‘in ul-Tujjār]. The negotiations were complicated by the involvement of a German syndicate, which also wanted to obtain control of the business. The file covers the contractual, legal, and diplomatic progress of the negotiations in detail.The papers consist of correspondence from senior officials at the Foreign Office and the India Office, particularly the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey) and the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Louis du Pan Mallet); the Board of Trade; the British Minister at Tehran (Sir Charles Murray Marling, later Sir George Barclay, and Sir Walter Beaupré Townley) and the three British firms involved in the negotiations: Ellinger and Company, Frank C Strick and Company, and Andrew Weir and Company.The French language content of the file is limited to a single letter on folio 41.The volume includes a divider which gives the subject, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 481; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file comprises correspondence relating to the work of the Golden Valley Ochre and Oxide Company Limited (Commander Daniel Harvey Rainier) in the Persian Gulf.The initial correspondence between the Company and the Residency Agent at Sharjah discusses obtaining permission from the Shaikh of Ras-al-Khaimah [Ra’s al Khaymah] (Sulṭān bin Sālim Āl Qasimī) to investigate red oxide deposits on Tunb Island.The later correspondence relates to two thefts which occurred in December 1943 and January 1944 on the Company’s property and stores at Abu Musa and includes a report from the Company’s watchman on the island (Aḥmad bin ‘Abdullāh) and correspondence with the Company’s Agent at Sharjah (Hosain bin Ḥasan Amad) and Cunningham and Gibaud, a loss Adjusting company appointed to handle the claim.A series of file notes which were maintained as a record of the correspondence in the volume can be found at folios 45-47.Physical description: The main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 48; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Corrections have been made to this sequence which have been crossed through.An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 4-44; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
Abstract: Correspondence and other papers relating to the Government of India’s attempts to obtain control over rock salt production on the island of Hormuz [Jazīreh-ye Hormoz], partly in order to thwart Japanese attempts to establish their own concession on the island. The file includes a copy of the contract (in French) agreed between the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Iran, and the British Legation at Tehran, dated 9 June 1941, for the purchase of salt on Hormuz by the Government of India (ff 82-86). Much of the subsequent correspondence concerns the expenditure of the contract. The file also includes discussion of Frank C Strick & Company’s concession for red oxide production at Hormuz. The file’s principal correspondents are: HM Ambassador to Iran, Reader William Bullard; the External Affairs Department of the Government of India; the Foreign Office.The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 119; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Abstract: The volume contains correspondence and papers concerning the granting of a concession to British companies to mine red oxide on the Island of Sirri (also referred to as Siri and Sirra) in the Persian Gulf.The main correspondents are HM Minister, Tehran (Sir George Head Barclay); the British Chargé d’Affaires, Tehran (Charles Murray Marling); senior officials of the Foreign Office, the Government of India, the India Office, and the Board of Trade; and representatives of the companies involved: Hadji Ali Akbar and Sons Limited (Manchester), Frank C. Strick and Company Limited (London), and Ellinger and Company (Manchester).The papers cover: the initial application to mine red oxide on Sirri from Hadji Ali Akbar and Sons Limited, Manchester, April -June 1908 (folios 194-220); papers concerning the question of whether the company could provide a guarantee that it would act in British interests, April-August 1908 (folios 168-193); papers concerning the standing of the company, including correspondence from the Board of Trade, August-September 1908 (folios 153-167); the question of sovereignty over the island, and whether the British Government, by upholding the rights of the company, would be admitting Persian sovereignty against the claims of the Shaikh of Sharga [Sharjah], June-September 1908 (e.g. folios 193, 145-152); the right to mine red oxide disputed by Frank C. Strick and Company Limited, London, and Ellinger and Company, Manchester, who claimed that the concession granted to the Muin-ut-Tujjar [Haji Agha Muhammad, Mu‘in ul-Tujjār] on the island of Hormuz entitled them to mine on Sirri also, October-December 1908 (folios 108-144); investigations by the British Government showing that the Muin-ut-Tujjar had not established his claim to be the holder of a concession on Sirri, December 1908 - January 1909 (folios 73-107); further correspondence, August 1908 - February 1909 (folios 34-72); reports that deposits of red oxide on Sirri were actually very scanty, February 1909 (folios 28-33); and papers concerning further investigations into the presence of red oxide on Sirri and adjacent islands, February-May 1909 (folios 4-27).The volume includes a divider which gives the subject, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.The date range gives the covering dates of all the documents in the volume; the covering dates of the Secret Department minute papers, which enclose those documents, as given on folio 3, are 1908-09.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 222; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: Correspondence exchanged between the German Consulate at Buschär [Bushire] (Helmuth Listemann) and others: the Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh] representative of the German firm Robert Wönckhaus and Company (Herr H Rosenfeld; Herr Krumpeter); the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Zachariah Cox); German Government officials at the Auswärtiges Amt (Foreign Office) in Berlin, the German Chargé d’Affaires in Tehran (Hartmann Oswald Heinrich Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen).The correspondence refers to a dispute over a concession for the mining and shipment of red oxide at Abū Mūsá, originally awarded to Arab merchants by Shaikh Sālim bin Sulṭān Āl Qāsimī of Sharjah in 1898, and part of which was subsequently acquired by Wönckhaus and Company in 1906. The dispute was sparked by the Ruler of Sharjah, Shaikh Ṣaqr bin Khālid Āl Qāsimī’s cancellation of the concession in 1907, and subsequent claims by Wönckhaus and Company and the German Government, over financial losses arising from the cancellation of the concession.Amongst the papers are copies of correspondence, agreements and other papers dating between 1892 and 1907, relating to the original contract to mine red oxide at Abū Mūsá. Many of these agreements are in Arabic, with most accompanied by English translations.The majority of the file’s correspondence is in German. Official letters exchanged between the German Consul at Bushire and the British Political Resident are in French.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 263; these numbers are printed, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file is a direct chronological continuation of File 4949/1912 Pt 4 ‘Abu Musa – Angelegenheit. 1907.’ (IOR/L/PS/10/321), containing correspondence exchanged between the German Consulate at Buschär [Bushire] (Helmuth Listemann; Wilhelm Wassmuss) and others: the British Government; the Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh] representative of the German firm Robert Wönckhaus and Company (Herr H Rosenfeld; Herr Krumpeter); the British Political Residency in the Persian Gulf (Major Arthur Prescott Trevor; Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Zachariah Cox); the German Imperial Government.The correspondence refers to a dispute over a concession for the mining and shipment of red oxide at Abū Mūsá, originally awarded to Arab merchants by Shaikh Sālim bin Sulṭān Āl Qāsimī of Sharjah in 1898, and part of which was subsequently acquired by Wönckhaus and Company in 1906. The dispute was sparked by the Ruler of Sharjah, Shaikh Ṣaqr bin Khālid Āl Qāsimī’s cancellation of the concession in 1907, and subsequent claims by Wönckhaus and Company and the German Government, over financial losses arising from the cancellation of the concession.The majority of the file’s correspondence is in German. Official letters exchanged between the German Consul at Bushire and the British Political Resident are in French.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 296; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-296; these numbers are printed.
Abstract: Copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the mining of red oxide on the island of Abū Mūsá in the Persian Gulf, before and after the First World War. The volume’s principal correspondents are: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox); Foreign Office officials (chiefly Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe); representatives of the British firm Frank C Strick & Company Limited (including Frank Clarke Strick); representatives of the German firm Robert Wönckhaus & Company.Correspondence dated 1912 to 1913 refers to informal negotiations between Foreign and India Office representatives, the German Ambassador to London, and Robert Wönckhaus & Company, over the payment of compensation to Robert Wönckhaus & Company for loss of income and the relinquishment of concession rights for the mining of red oxide at Abū Mūsá, in the wake of the withdrawal of the concession by the Ruler of Sharjah, Shaikh Seker [Shaikh Ṣaqr bin Khālid Āl Qāsimī] in 1907.Correspondence dated 1914 concerns assessments, submitted by representatives of Frank C Strick & Company Limited, and analysed by the British Government’s Board of Trade, on the value and deterioration in quality of the red oxide left by Robert Wönckhaus & Co at Abū Mūsá.Correspondence dated 1921 to 1923 relates to: Frank C Strick & Company’s concession negotiations with the Shaikh of Sharjah, over red oxide extraction at Abū Mūsá, mediated through the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; reports of concession negotiations undertaken by Persian commercial interests for red oxide mining on the island of Hormuz [Jazīreh-ye Hormoz, also referred to in the volume as Ormuz]; diplomatic exchanges between representatives of the British and Persian Government (some in French) over historic Persian claims to the islands in the Persian Gulf, including Abū Mūsá and Tamb [Tunb].Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 279; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.