مجموعة ٢٩/ ٧٣ "الأهواز: منح تعويض لشيخ المحمرة عن الأموال التي قدمها لإنشاء مبنى قنصلي في الأهواز" [و‎‎١‎٢‎٦] (٣٣١/٢٥٣)

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expenditure d# this Bat&*€ sbfeiaifl^- ^ut ■ isifrHho Way
as having been discharged by the contribution of
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£100 million^ made by India to the cost of the War.
It will be remembered that an assurance was given to
both Sheikhs that their Date hardens in Iraq would
remain in their possession and be immune from
taxation but that the Iraqi Government have imposed
taxation on the Sheikhs’ Date Gardens and H.M.G.
have hitherto failed to compensate the Sheikhs or to
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persuade the Iraqi Government to remove/taxation.
As recently as June last in writing to the foreign
Office on the question of compensating the Sheikhs
for the taxation o^r their Jate Gardens we stated
that n as regards the question of incidence, Sir
Samuel Hoare has already made it clear that he
cannot accept any liability on behalf of Indian
revenues in respect of any compensation which may
be paid either to the Sheikh of Koweit or the
Sheikh of Mohammerah in composition for the assurances
given to those Rulers on behalf of H.M.G. in 1914*
(P.Z.2942/33).