'File 14/115 VII Annex (B 9) Abu Musa oxide: collected background material on the case' [‎345r] (716/1904)

Gisan sojourning on the islands, r/hen their grazing
interests clashed,
in order t© put an end to this recurrent friction the
Chi e^, a of the Clan came to a friendly understanding
under which particular islands were henceforth to be
ueea exclusively hy different portions of the tribe,
under th3,s understanding Abu Musa fell to the Shargah
trench and the arrangenent then Bade has never been
disturbed,
While not ordinarily intervening in the internal
politics of the Jowasis or other Arab tribes in treaty
relations with then, the British Authorities have in
practice recognised this position, and, in pursuance
of their time honoured policy of maintaining the
"Maritime Truce", the principles of which,as we have
specifically notified to the tribes,, are held to apply
to the islands of the Gulf as well as its waters, we
have interfered in the present instance in so far as
that when alien trlbesaen frois Debai and elsewhere
have attempted to send their flocks for grazing, or
otherwise to meddle with Abu Musa or Sir Bu Nuair
islands, they have been directed either to desist or
first obtain the acquiescence of the Ruling Shaikh of
Shargah in thesfproceedings.
It is true that on one or two occasions the Persian
(3 ivernsent,apparently from ignorance or a misconcep
tion of tho history of these islands generally, have
attempted to insinuate a claim to Abu Muaa,but in 1888,
when this olaim was firsy asserted,in conjunction with
a similar one In connection with Sirri,C<lonel E.C.
Ross, for 18 years Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , writing
t© Sir Henry Druawond Wolff, His Majesty's Minister at
Teheran, on 28th April.188B, observed; " the claim
now put forward to the island of Abu Musa has no jus
tification whatever and any attempt to assert Persian
authority