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1. '14/72 B. 3. Messrs Malcolm and Abu Musa 1898 - 1906'
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- Abstract: This file relates to the application of Arsham and Tigranes Joseph Malcolm for mining rights to iron oxide on Abu Musa island and other locations such as the islands of Dalma, Ghagha, Sir Abu Nu'air and Musandam Peninsula. Letters also discuss the resources of salt, gold and the activities of the German company, Wonckhaus and Co. There are many letters in Arabic with translations.The main correspondents are Lieutenant-Colonel, Malcolm John Meade,the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf ; Sir William John Cuningham, Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department; Residency Agent, Sharjah; Residency Agent, Lingah; Political Agent, Muscat; Shaikh Zayid bin Khalifah, Chief of Abu Dhabi; Shaikh Saggar bin Khalid, Chief of Sharjah.Physical description: Foliation: The main sequence, which is being used for referencing, commences on the first folio of writing, with number 1 and goes through to the last folio of writing, numbered 73. This sequence consists of pencil numbers, located in the top right hand corner of the recto of each folio. There is also a second former foliation sequence, which is incomplete and which commences on the first folio of writing with number 1, and runs intermittently until number 64. This former sequence commences with numbers in red canyon, latter written in pencil, which are located near to the top right hand corner of each folio. Foliation anomalies: 1, 1A, 1B.the sequence commences on the title folio, on number 1, and runs through to 65, ending on the inside of the back cover of the volume. There is also a former pagination sequence which begins on the fifth folio, and runs through to the last folio of writing.
2. '14/115 II B. 5. Abu Musa. Abu Musa oxide contracts and concession. Hassan Samaiyeh's dealings with the Germans.'
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- Abstract: Correspondence concerning the mining of red oxide on Abu Musa island owned by Shaikh Sagar bin Khaled of Sharjah. Letters reference the Protectorate Treaties 1897 clause that the Protectorate Sheikhs should on "no account, cede, sell, mortgage or otherwise give for occupation any part of my territory save to the British government." Correspondence describes how the concession had been given to a British subject and then to a German concessionaire. The concession to the German company was then cancelled but mining operations continued. Letters detail the arrangements for the dispatch of a British gun-boat if required. Correspondents include the Political Resident Persian Gulf; Assistant Secretary to Government of India in the Foreign Department; Residency Agent, Lingah; Residency Agent, Sharjah.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation system in use is the sequence of numbers appearing in a circle in the top right hand corner of each folio. The file also bears a foliation system comprising of uncircled numbers written in blue.
3. '14/115 III B. 6 Abu Musa; Hassan Samayeh's dealings with the Germans'
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- Abstract: This file contains reports and correspondence relating to the mining of iron ore on the island of Abu Musa and Hassan Samayeh's involvements with the Germans. The correspondents include the Political Resident Persian Gulf (Major Percy Cox), Residency Agent Sharjah; Lieutenant-Commander W. Hose, H.M.S. Redbreast, Bushire; H. Listermann, Consul for the Imperial German Government; Sheikh Sagar bin Khalid, Chief of Sharjah; Foreign Office, Government of India.Topics include:The erection of the Qawasim flag on Abu Musa.Views of the Foreign Office on Abu Musa.German Consul talks with Shaikh of Sharjah about the Wonckhaus company.Informing the German Consul that the Trucial chiefs are under British protection.Provision of guards for Abu Musa.Complaint of Nejef bin Ali against Hassan bin Samaiyeh.Persian claim to the islandThe Trucial chiefs were warned not to grant concessions without consulting the Resident.Wonckhaus agent prevented from landing at Abu Musa and to be allowed to remove all oxide already accumulated.There are many letters in Arabic including letters in Arabic from the German Consul to the Sheikh of Sharjah with translations. Also a hand written letter in English from the German Consul in Bushire to the Political Resident; and a Persian newspaper, Nedai-e-Watan.Physical description: There are two foliation sequences. The first foliation sequence which should be used for referencing, begins on the first folio of writing, on number 1. After number 3 there is a blank folio, which is not numbered. The sequence then resumes on the next folio, on number 4 and runs through to number 255, which is the last folio of writing. This sequence is written in pencil, in the top right corner of each folio.The second foliation sequence begins on the third folio of writing and runs from number 1 through to number 248A, ending on the last folio of writing. The second sequence is written in blue crayon, in the top right corner of each folio.
4. '14/115 IV B. 7. Abu Musa'
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- Abstract: Correspondence concerning Abu Musa island. Correspondence discusses British memorandum of 1908; the German case relating to their mining operations; the Persian claim to Abu Musa, Sirri and Tunb [Tumb]; the role of Hassan bin Samaiyah and the contract with the German company Wonckhaus. Corrrespondents include the Political Resident Persian Gulf; Frank C. Strick and Co.; German Consulate, Bandar Abbas; H.M. Consulate Bandar Abbas; Deputy Secretary to the Government of India; Khan Bakadur Abdur Latif [Khan Bahadur Abd al-Latif], Residency Agent Sharjah; Khalid bin Ahmad, Sheikh of Sharjah.Physical description: This volume has three foliation sequences. The first begins with the first letter and runs from number 1 through to number 55. There follows a gap of one folio, and then a second foliation sequence starts on the verso side of what would have been number 56 in the first foliation sequence. This sequence is inconsistent in that it is paginated from number 56 up to number 109, where it then lapses back into foliation and runs through to number 332, the last typescript folio. The third and most recent foliation sequence begins on the first typescript folio, which is loose. It runs from number 1 through to number 281, which is the inside of the back cover. It should be noted that folio 60 in this sequence is followed by folio 60 A, which is then followed by number 61. The first foliation sequence is written in blue and red crayon, in the top right corner of each folio. The second foliation sequence (which contains some pagination) is written in pencil, in the top right corner of each folio (and in the top left corner of the verso side of those folios that are paginated). The third foliation sequence, which should be used for cataloguing, is written and circled in pencil, in the top right corner of each folio.
5. '14/115 VIII B 17 Abu Musa Red Oxide'
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- Abstract: Correspondence concerning the mining of red oxide on Abu Musa island. Correspondence discusses the removal of the mining equipment of Hassan bin Samaiyah. Correspondence also discusses the application of Wonckhaus to ship red oxide and negotiations with the Foreign Office over the termination of Wonckhaus's mining rights.Correspondents include Khan Bahadur Aqa Beder, Residency Agent, Lingah; Sir Percy Cox, Political Resident Persian Gulf; C.J. Homer, Officer-in-Command, Persian Gulf Lighthouse Works; Residency Agent, Sharjah; Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department, India Office, London; Foreign Office, London; W. Wassmuss, Imperial German Consul, Bushire; Karl Lichnowsky, German Embassy, London.Physical description: Foliation starts with the first folio and continues through to the final folio. The folio numbers are written in pencil in the upper right hand corner of the recto side. Foliation anomalies: (1A, 1B,1C, and 1D, 64A and 64B, 173A and 173B, 237A and 237B.)
6. '14/164, 14/166 B 22, CLAIM OF HASSAN SAMAIYAH FOR PROPERTY LOST ON ABU MUSA. 1910'
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- Abstract: Correspondence concerning the claim of Hassan Samaiya for property lost on Abu Musa island after the German company Wonckhaus lost the concession following an international tribunal. Includes a list of articles used in the mining operation and also discusses the welfare of some donkeys left there. The file includes the 'Investigation regarding Hassan Sameiyeh's complaint in connection with gear said to have disappeared from Abu Musa'. Correspondents include the Residency Agent, Lingah; Dr H.Listermann, Imperial German Consul, Bushire; Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, Political Resident Persian Gulf.There is also correspondence on the claim by Shaikh Sagar bin Khalid of Sharjah against Hassan bin Samaiyah for the loss of horses on Abu Musa. Correspondents include the Residency Agent, Lingah and Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, Political Resident Persian Gulf; Khan Bahadur Agba Beder, Residency Agent, Lingah and Shaikh Sagar bin Khalid of Sharjah.Physical description: Foliation: The sequence starts on the first folio writing with circled pencil numbers in the top right-hand corner of the recto of each folio and finishes on the back cover. Foliation anomalies: 3, 3A, 12, 12A, 54, 54A.
7. 'B. 9, 14/115 VI. Abu Musa Oxide, 1910 to 1911: British Memorandum; German Memorandum; Colonel Cox's Notes'
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- Abstract: Correspondence relating to the mining of red oxide on Abu Musa island by a German company, Wonckhaus, and the British desire to prevent the Germans gaining a monopoly and presence on the island. Correspondence includes a note by Major Percy Zachariah Cox on the case and Hassan bin Samaiyah's involvement as well as printed reports. Correspondents include the Residency Agent, Lingah; Politial Resident Persian Gulf; Imperial German Consul, Bushire.Physical description: The main foliation sequence, which should be used for referencing, begins on the cover page, which is number 1A. It is followed by 1B, and then by folio number 2. After folio number 3 the sequence jumps straight to number 5 – there is no number 4. The sequence then runs through to 120. Number 121 has been missed out, so folio number 120 is followed by number 122. The sequence then continues through to 381, which is the inside of the back cover of the volume. It should be noted that letters have been used to number folios at two other points in the sequence: 229 is followed by 229A; and 329 is followed by 329A. This sequence consists of small pencil numbers, in the top right corner of each folio.The second foliation sequence begins at the first letter, which is the third folio of writing and runs through to number 356, the last folio of writing.This foliation sequence is written in pencil (using slightly larger numbers), in the top right corner of each folio.
8. 'File 14/115 VIII B 15 Abu Musa. Red oxide concession.'
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- Abstract: Correspondence relating to the mining of red oxide on Abu Musa island. Correspondence topics include:The Second British Memorandum, December 1911 (printed copy).The migration of the Sudanese community from Sirri to Abu Musa.The activities of the German company Wonckhaus which was not permited to ship oxide from the pit-head but permitted to remove all oxide already mined.Letters discuss the view of the Political Resident Persian Gulf that no further concessions be given to Wonckhaus.Correspondents include the Political Resident Persian Gulf; the Foreign Office, London; India Office, London; H. Listermann, German Consulate, Bushire; Shaikh Sagar bin Khalid, Chief of Sharjah; Residency Agent, Sharjah; H.M. Vice-Consul and Assistant Resident, Lingah.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation system in use is the sequence of numbers appearing in a circle in the top right hand corner of each page.
9. File 27/3 ‘German Shipping & Trade Competition’
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- Abstract: This file contains correspondence, memoranda reports, telegrams and minutes, regarding the German and Japanese interest in shipping and trade in the Persian Gulf, particularly in Kuwait (also written in some parts of the file as Koweit).The papers notably cover/include the following:The establishment of a passenger/trading service from Europe to the Persian Gulf by the steamship company, Hamburg Amerika [America] Line, and imports by the company’s Persian Gulf branchGerman and Japanese ships at Persian [Iranian] portsThe interest of German firm Messrs Robert Wonckhaus and Company in Basra, and details of the Ruler of Kuwait having been approached by the same companyReports of German trade shipping and details of items purchased (e.g. Barley), reportedly at a lossA report of a broker selling firearms in Bahrein [Bahrain]Details relating to the Baghdad RailwayThe movements of German merchants in the Gulf during 1916The presence of a Japanese merchant, suspected to be an employee of the trading company Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, at ports in the GulfThe operations of Messrs Robert Wonckhaus and Company in Kuwait.The volume comprises internal correspondence between British officials of different departments. The principal correspondents are: Stuart George Knox, Political Agent at Kuwait; and Sir Percy Cox, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire [Bushehr].Physical description: Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 106; 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 2-105; these numbers are written in pencil, and are circled. Another foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 3-47; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.Both of the previous foliation sequences have been superseded and therefore crossed out.
10. File 161/1908 Pt 2 'Persian Gulf:- Abu Musa Oxide'
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- Abstract: The volume concerns the export of red oxide mined on the island of Abu Musa [Abū Mūsá].The main correspondents are senior officials of the Foreign Office and the India Office; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Major Percy Zachariah Cox); and the Viceroy.The papers cover: contractual arrangements for the removal of red oxide from the island by the German firm Robert Wönckhaus & Company; diplomatic contacts concerning the issue between the British and German governments; the question of the ownership of Abu Musa; and the interest of British firms such as Frank C Strick and Company in the export of red oxide from the island.The volume also contains copies of earlier correspondence and agreements dated 1884-1908.The French language content of the volume consists of five folios of diplomatic correspondence between British and German officials.Each part includes a divider, which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 195; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the two leading and ending flyleaves.
11. File 161/1908 Pt 3 'Persian Gulf:- Abu Musa oxide'
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- Abstract: The volume concerns the export of red oxide mined on the island of Abu Musa [Abū Mūsá].The main correspondents are senior officials of the Foreign Office and the India Office; the First Assistant Resident in charge of the Political Residency (Major Arthur Prescott Trevor); the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Zachariah Cox); the Viceroy; and German Government officials.The papers cover the progress of diplomatic negotiations between the British and German governments over contractual rights to remove red oxide from the island by the German firm Robert Wönckhaus & Company.The volume also contains copies of earlier correspondence and agreements dated 1899-1909.The French language content of the volume consists of approximately fifty folios of diplomatic correspondence between British and German officials.The Arabic language content of the volume consists of citations of Arabic words (with English transliterations) in several letters, in which the precise meaning of the Arabic terms is discussed.Each part includes a divider, which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 476; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers; nor does it include the two leading and ending flyleaves. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 454-476; these numbers are also written in pencil and circled, but are crossed through.
12. File 4949/1912 Pt 2 'Persian Gulf: Abu Musa Oxide Concession; Sir P Cox's enquiry whether German papers seized at Bushire should be sent to the FO'
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- Abstract: File contains the enquiry from Percy Zachariah Cox, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. as to whether to send to the Foreign Office, London, the papers seized from the German Consulate relating to the Abu Musa oxide concession held by the German company, Wönkhaus. Correspondence between the Under Secretary of State for India and the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs discusses how it would be useful to have access to the papers in relation to any settlement of the issue after the war.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 7; these numbers are printed or written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
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