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'File 14/115 VII Annex (B 9) Abu Musa oxide: collected background material on the case' [‎23r] (56/1904)

The record is made up of Four volumes. It was created in 1871-1911. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: 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. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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Annex (16).
Enclosure to Annex (14),
Extract from a letter from the Political Resi
^ecretaiy to tae Irovemmetit of India in the Foreign DevaTttnent. Calcutta, (No,
1559, dated the 4th July 1909).
Our Agent at Lipgah has for years past experienced a great deal of trouble
from the vagaries and intrigues of a Persian named Muhammad Abdulla, who
though carrying no commission and though the Tehran Government have refused
to agree to his appointment, has nevertheless managed, by flying a Turkish flaa
and using a spurious rubber seal, to pose as a Turkish Consular official and, under
this guise, to make difficulties for our Agent by encouraging visitors from Oman
or Bahrain to accept his protection, and in other ways. We have repeatedlv com-
piained to the Governor of the Gulf ports of the conduct of this Persian and also
to His Majesty's Legation. \\ hile Muhammad Abdulla has always been repudiated
he has never been suppressed, until last year when the Darya Begi in pursuance
of orders received from Tehran took the- opportunity afforded by a personal visit
to Lingah to have Muhammad Abdulla's flagstaff removed. Soon after this
incident, the Wali of Busrah, who properly speaking would appear to have no status
to interfere in affairs on the Persian coast, sent a representative down to Lingah
whom Muhammad Abdulla took steps to cram with garbled stories of his ill-treat
ment by the Darya Begi, and this has now resulted in a complaint against the Darya
Begi by the Turkish Legation and a demand that the Governor of the Gulf porta
should give satisfaction. A telegram recently received by His Excellency from the
Persian Foreign Minister quotes Hasan Samaiyeh as being one of the persons who
had furnished statements on which the Turkish demand for satisfaction from the
Darya Begi was based. The other two persons who are quoted by name are also
individuals with pronounced anti-English proclivities, one of whom has lately been
removed from the post of French Consular Agent which he formerly held.

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Correspondence includes the originals and annexes of the Abu Musa report of May 1911; Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. material for first British reply; printed copy of 2nd British reply; Hassan Samiyah's complaint. It also includes the printed arguments of the Foreign Office case. Correspondence discusses arguments based on various translations of Persian and Arabic words.

Correspondents include 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. ; Hassan Samaiyah; Robert Wonckhaus; Mr Tigranes Joseph Malcolm; Bahadur Abdul Latif [Abd’al Latif] , Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. Agent, Sharjah.

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Four volumes
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The file is arranged in four volumes.

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Foliation: This file has been split into four parts. The complete foliation sequence, which should be used for referencing, runs across all four parts and consists of a pencil number, enclosed in a circle in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. In each volume the foliation commences on the first folio of writing and concludes on the last. Volume 1 contains folios 1-251, Volume 2 contains folios 252-479. Volume 3 contains folios 480-727. Volume 4 contains folios 728-910.

Foliation anomalies: 478, 478A, 512, 512A, 512B, 512C, 584, 584A, 606, 606A, 640, 640A, 821, 821A, 821B, 821C, 821D, 860, 860A, 865, 865A. Foliation omission: 646.

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