'File 14/115 VII Annex (B 9) Abu Musa oxide: collected background material on the case' [‎284r] (594/1904)

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^ixx ivazaruni (so© my report of J .no I9ui ) as candidates for two
of the seats in tne 'Xoi.ran Majila allotted to the Gull' Ports,
rlie Governor, hosrovor, intorvoned on t..o ground that the elec
tion was not a bona lide one and their deputation never took
shape.
^oanrfhile wirza nuaeln'o operations in dealings in
association with aaji iaiihaiaraad Hassan, the local broiior of
iiesars *cmokiia.ua, proceeded as uuual, but some of the captures
ox arns by his majesty*3 Ships were reported to have involved
tiie ^air in heavy losses and put them in some financial diffi
culty. xn «Iarhh 1910, owing to the stagnation of trade in Bu-
shire and other causes, nassrscWonckhaus withdrew their Euro
pean agent for a time and left the iiroker uaji -luharuaad nassan
in charge. The jealousy evinced by :,.lr2a "usain at not being
given tne js ^ kk agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. himself, resuitod in-a split between'
him and iiaji lUliammad iiassan which lod^ to a' good deal of mutu..v
recrimination and consequent axpouure of their shady business
affairs, in September 1910 a sun of £1700 odd which Messrs
<¥oncithaus had despatched tixrough tiie medium of iiaji uhammad
aassan, to the neighbouring coast by sailing boat for the pur-
phase oi grciin for export, was lost, ihe money disappeared in
transit and auspicion^fostered by ir::a ausein, foil on aaji
-utiamiead. The latter eventually absconded to ran, Istan and
iiiir -'a huso in was appointed in his place as < onc-iihaus' agent,
i'he firm, however, soon came to the conclusion that Mrza nuse4n •
was implicated, and ^.luhamraad ti lasan mora sinned against than
si;siing, and induced the latter to rotur. j flrom Tangistan, A
short time affcorvmrds they ];roferred a claim on his behg/Sf
against Ulrzix -use in for misappropriating m the broker Often a local commercial agent in the Gulf who regularly performed duties of intelligence gathering and political representation. a
absence a cargo of arms -vhich the latter had ordered out. Those
arms Kirza iiusein is said to have sold to various dealers of
whom one Abdul ^arim bought and secreted 10. These arms having
been traced and seized, the Director of Customs, having obtained
proof of their import by Mirza iiusein, tooii. up the case against
him with the uovernor and the Gorman Consulate. At the aane time
the German