'File 14/115 VII Annex (B 9) Abu Musa oxide: collected background material on the case' [‎261r] (548/1904)

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Furthermore, when writing to me on the 83rd Moharram
with reference to my letter to him (dated 8th Zilhejjeh
• enjoinin- on hira the IjjJl*
Hasan used the sane form of words as I had, thus:
" 0 V particularly wrote about the deed of contisaot
which I executed with Wonclchauo the German for the sale
of Oxide fron A'ou .''uea Island. I understood what you
^said, namely that your son Esa was not agreeable to the
* execution of a document of this purport for the reason
"that I had not consulted you and that It was necessary
'that the nartnern should not enter (into transaction)
•'without the Icnowledge of the other partners; that this
"humble one had entered into this transaction without
oonoulation and that lea feared that cormlloations
"would result owing to the admittance of oreignern fin-
"to thy concern) and thai-^
(The annulment of this contract is better than its acceptnnc^
Again in writing to me on 15th Safar 1325 (30th March 1907)
Hasan suggested that 1 had better, if 1 thought fit, write
to the German mycfelf and explain to him regarding the an
nulment of the contract. His precise words were
It will be seen that he here used and not
ft *
It is clear therefore that Hasan understood me fully^ in the
sense I intended to convey.
Secondly, the explanation of the use of the spelling
Ls g tol 1 owe in "•? oninionj-
It is rendering into writing of a colloquial con
struction of speech. Thus in conversation, if referring to
a masculine object, such as Zaid, I should not say
but leaving out the ♦Zamah* after the l o* but sub
stituting the f Zamah♦ for •Kasrah' after the •t'. Similarly
if I were referring to a feminine object I should not say
f S's r i
L^*U^-\ but substituting the •Kasrah' after the H*
for the feminine pronoun 'ha'. Likewice, in writing a collo
quial letter I should render the above sounds into writing.
The word *-» Wi or is constantly used, in ny par-
lance in reference to a thing in the sense of •
It la also evident from Hasan Samaiyeh's reply above-
quoted that he uses it in this sense
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4 *P.T.O.