'File 14/115 VII Annex (B 9) Abu Musa oxide: collected background material on the case' [‎391r] (808/1904)

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26th November
1904.
Sfitb January
1905.
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of corresponderKSe between Haeean Ea ^alyeh and others
gsrdlng the execution of the lenee with the German Flrn.
The correepondenoe ehoire that Ha.ean acted with duplltlty
all through.
The disposition of Mr. Wouokhaua to interest himeelf
in Abu uaa Ialand and its oxide becane evident at the
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® nd of 1904 * when Ip reporting his visit to the Island
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the 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^ reootamended that a warning be admi
nistered at Shargah.
ihis ifSA8 don© and Hassan Samaiyeh likewise reosiired
a caution froa Abdul Latlf the 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 and his
eon vide Hassan Gamaiyeh's letter of January SOth 1905
in which he flouted the idea of hie ever letting the
German get a footing.
Nothing of iciportanoe was heard of the matter until
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reports or some objectionable compact between Samaiyeh
and "oncjOihua reached the Resident in August 1906, and
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on investigation it appears# that there was evidently
truth in the report in question and that Hassan Samaiyeh
was endeavouring to throw dust in the eyes of Esa and
his father and tookeep the precis© terns of the deed of
contract secret from then.
Thus on 7th June he had written to fcr. Tigrano 7th June 1906.
Maloolaj of Bushir© who claims to have a subsidiary
sharein the concern; and on 11th June to Abdul Latif
telling them of his deal with tonckhaus, but not
mentioning the existence of any forsal deed and glazig-
over the fact that an absolute monopoly of purchase
had been granted to the German Firm. In the German Case
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trie letter is oonepiououf by? its absence from the
enclosures.
Abdul Latif our Native Agent Non-British agents affiliated with the British Government. on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
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after,,warnings which he had given to Hassan, not suspect
ing Hassan's good faith and attracted no doubt by the
prospect