'File 14/115 VII Annex (B 9) Abu Musa oxide: collected background material on the case' [‎275r] (576/1904)

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( Annex 42).
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Note on the
History and character
of Mirza Jbusxa Hube in "The Dragoman of the Imperial Vioe-Gon-
sul«ie at Buohire" referred to at page 5 of the Foreign Office
print of the German Memorandum, and in Item 25 of Resident's
c omment ther e on.
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The Dragomamn question is the man referred to in the
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Report submitted by me on 27th June 1909 in connection with
No.36 to H.M's Minister, Teheran § the disturbances at
No. 3 to H. M 1 s Foreign Office 1
No.1498 to the Government of India | Bushire of the spring of
1909, when troops had to be landed from Mis Majeaty'p. Ships
for the protection/ of Foreigners.
I beg reference to that report from which point my present
note^ takes up the thread.
At that time (the Summer of 1909) I considered that I had
a good deal to complain of in the attitude towards me of the
Acting German Consul Herr Wassmuas, and in this view Sir George
Barclay fully concurred on seeing papers which I showed him per
sonally in Teheran; I attributed this mainly to the fact that
Herr Wassmuss as a new comer with no knowledge of the country
or language, was necessarily in the nands of his Dragoman.
Both he, however, and Dr.Listemann, the pxaxx permanent
incumbent, placed implicit reliance on the man and neither would
hear a word against him. This of course was not unnatural.
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As will be seen from what follows the man has since been
entirely exposed, discredited and summarily dismissed.
On the termination of the disturbances and the expulsion
of Seyyid Murteza, Mirza Muse in gave up his to local
politics and by judicious bribery among the community of harbour
boatmen (his father was a local Nakhoda) got himself elected
a member of the Bushire Anjuman. Later on,in January 1910 he
was able to contrive his selection and that of his ally Mirza
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