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File 1421/1908 Pt 3 'Persia: oil; negotiations between the Shaikh of Mohammerah and the Anglo-Persian Oil Co.' [332r] (229/338)
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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty’s Government.]
//
PERSIA
Section 5.
[July 23.
[27814]
No. 1.
Sir,
Anglo-Pcrsian Oil Company to Foreign Office.—(Received July 23.)
Winchester House, Old Broad Street,
London, July 22, 1909.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of yesterday’s date
advising receipt of a telegram from His Majesty’s consul-general at Bushire confirmatory
of the one received by us from the company’s agents, as advised to you on the
20 th instant.
From what you write I understand that it is your desire that we should arrange
for the payment of the whole sum of 10,500/. (not 16,050/.) in gold to the sheikh, and
I have accordingly remitted the equivalent of this amount to Bombay to-day, and
instructed our agents there to purchase 16,500 sovereigns and ship them by the first
mail steamer to Messrs. Lloyd, Scott, and Co., Mohammerah, for payment to the sheikh.
As arranged with you over the telephone to-day, I understand, however, that you will
telegraph to His Majesty’s consul at Bushire, requesting him to advise the sheikh that
10,000/. of the above amount is being paid by Messrs. Lloyd, Scott, and Co., in respect
of the Government loan.
With regard to the two concluding paragraphs of your letter, we shall of course
do our utmost to comply with the sheikh’s request to delay over operations until the
present crisis at Tehran is at an end, but it will be difficult to do this for long, as one-
half of the pipe line is due for shipment from New York in August, and will probably
arrive some time in September. ..
His request for secrecy as to the execution and details of the agreement will ol
course be complied with.
I am, &c.
C. GREENING, Director.
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Part 3 consists of correspondence relating to an agreement between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and Shaikh Khazal-Bin-Jaber [Khaz‘al bin Jābir bin Mirdāw al-Ka‘bī] of Mohammerah [Khorramshahr]. The correspondence is mostly between the Government of India (Foreign Department), Foreign Office, and India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. . Included as enclosures are letters, telegrams, and memoranda from the following:
- Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary;
- British Minister to Persia, Tehran;
- representatives of Anglo-Persian Oil Company;
- Percy Zachariah Cox, Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ;
- Shaikh Khazal of Mohammerah;
- Messrs Lloyd, Scott, and Co., agents of Anglo-Persian Oil Company in Mohammerah;
- Persian government officials;
- Arnold Talbot Wilson, Acting Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia.
Several matters are covered by the papers, including:
- the negotiations over a loan to Shaikh Khazal by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company for the use of land on Abadan Island for an oil refinery;
- the question of what is to be done with company buildings on the island when the concession period ends;
- the nature of Shaikh Khazal's rights to the land in question;
- the Persian Government's exceptions to some of the terms of the agreement;
- the question of guards for the refinery and who will pay for them.
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- File 1421/1908 Pt 3 'Persia: oil; negotiations between the Shaikh of Mohammerah and the Anglo-Persian Oil Co.'
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- 268r:269r, 285r, 332r
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- Greenway, Charles
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