ملف ١٩١٨/٢٩٩ الجزء ٣ "بلاد فارس: الوضع في الجنوب؛ طائرات في بوشهر؛ حاميات بعد الحرب في الخليج الفارسي؛ مسألة انسحاب القوات البريطانية؛ زيارة وزير الحرب إلى الجنوب، سنة ١٩٢٢" [و‎‎٣‎١‎٩] (٧٤٦/٦٤٢)

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The Hon 1 Die Ueut.-Ool. />.?.TreYor, Q.^.I., C.I.i
Political iiGsicent in the Persian Gulf t
The Hon 1 ble ^r, D. de iiray, I.0.» •,
Oifg* Porei/jn Secretary to the Government of India
in the foreign and Political Dc^irtraent, Delhi,
Subject:- Proposal that the anglo-Persian Oil r _
should pay cost of guaro over their boring settlement
at oalak ^uishm Island.
The question of reducing the various detachments and guards in
outlying places in the Persian Gulf has frequently been raised by
the Officer Gomaming Troops.
It has resulted in the removal of the Lingah guard, the reduc
tion of the Henjaa detachment, and of the guard over the anglo-
Persian Oil Company's establishment at Sala, ^uishm Island, to
1 1.0. and ZJ rank ana file.
The removal of this guard altogether was proposed as, from a
political point of view, it no longer see ted necess rv the country
being ouiet*
The Company, however, strongly opposed this, and it was
decided to keep the reduced guard.
In the circumstances it seems to me tJuit tho i-nglo—Persian ^
Oil Company might well be asked to pay for the actual cost ei t ic
u rd-i.e. the pay and llow.inces of the officers and men and the
cost of their rations-, or at least pay the excess expenditure
involved in maintaining the men at ^uishm over keeping them in 1
India. I think the Company might be asked to pay this on the analog*
of the uard supplied for the oil fields for which they
agreed to pay id January 1^09 vide this ottice letter ho*313 dated
30th Janury 1909. further I understand from the Hesident Director
of