'File 14/115 VII Annex (B 9) Abu Musa oxide: collected background material on the case' [‎220r] (450/1904)

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back# H@ exen out R livelihood tlirough the kindn®Bs of* on®
or* two fi*lends of* wliofst Masan ^HB®a,3Ly®li j. is on®# They gl.¥# htK
a little money wherewith to ©peoulat© on their behalf in
pearls. If he makes a profit he getn a share, if he wakes
a I ogq it fallo on thera. (See also itest 56).
(v). Abdul1ah-bin-Hasan-Kal1aderi•
A fairly well-to-do acrchant of LingRh» a Persian by
birth and son-in-law to Abdarrahman-ibn-KiAsaBiad-ibn-KftElffit#
Although he ciains British ni^teotion against Persian op
pression on the strength of a Bowbay msaport, nevertheless
he is always in tow of personc hostile to Britioh interest®.
Be waa a proninent aember of a troublseome Nationalist Anju-
®an three year« ago, the chief propaganda of which was pro
nounced hostility to British interested and on another oc
casion he joined in an intrigue to get one iiafar All re
instated as Deputy Governor of Lingah who had been removed
at the instance of the Heeidency for neglect of British
claims and interests. He is a close friend of Hasan Sasaalyeh
and has recently been appointed by the Geman firm Agent of
their steasers at Bunder ^bbao. He is the third person re
ferred to at the conolusio ■» of the extract given under Me.
(ill) AbdulIn bin Kohased Khadja.
(vl).Kasin A1 Khadalrl and others (Annex 84).
Kaeln A1 Khadairi himself is a well known merchant of
Bussorah but I do not know who his associates are. I would
point out however that they are Bussorah Arabs and profess
to ssake a pronouncement on an instrument ahlch acoordinK to
them B waa concluded in tine land of Persia*'.
In the first place the agreement was not concluded in
Persia and oo their opinion is formed on a wrong premise.
In the second r>lace ae^dhHigg*!* irurkish subjects of Qussorah.
their views on such a matter as this can carry little weight.
As regards the individual clergy who recorded opinions
for the German firrs, I have little to say, except that col
lectively