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File 1421/1908 Pt 3 'Persia: oil; negotiations between the Shaikh of Mohammerah and the Anglo-Persian Oil Co.' [336r] (237/338)
The record is made up of 1 item (168 folios). It was created in Apr 1909-Jul 1919. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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PERSIA.
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[July 21.]
^CONFIDENTIAL.
Section 3.
[26998]
No. 1.
Foreign Office to Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
gj r Foreign Office, July 21, 1909.
WITH reference to your letter of the 1 st instant, relative to the proposed agree
ment between your company and the Sheikh of Mohammerah, l am directed by
Secretary Sir Edward Grey to inform you that he has received a telegram from His
Majesty’s consul-general at Bushire reporting that, after negotiations which have lasted
several days, a settlement has been reached on terms which Major Cox agrees with
your agent in considering reasonably satisfactory. All essential conditions have been
maintained, though certain alterations have been made in-the less important details.
As regards the reversion of the buildings, &c., constructed on the land leased,
Major Cox states that he was obliged to give to the sheikh the separate confidential
assurance suggested by His Majesty’s Minister at lehran, that if, when the time comes,
the Persian Government claim these buildings, His Majesty’s Government will assist
the sheikh to reach a reasonable settlement.
The sheikh has undertaken to get the agreement endorsed by the tribal elders
within the next few days, and it is hoped that by that time the sum of 16,050?. will be
ready at Mohammerah. The sheikh accepts the conditions which His Majesty’s
Government have attached to the loan, and has asked that the amount may be paid
in gold instead of by draft on a bank.
The sheikh has expressed the fear that by executing this agreement with a foreign
company he may incur the hostility of the ulema and Nationalist leaders. He therefore
begs that overt operations at Mohammerah may be delayed, and secrecy maintained as
to the execution and details of the agreement until the present crisis at Tehran is at
an »
I am to suggest to you the advisability of complying with the request of the
sheikh on this point.
I am, &c.
LOUIS MALLET.
[2339 3]
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Part 3 consists of correspondence relating to an agreement between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and Shaikh Khazal-Bin-Jaber [Khaz‘al bin Jābir bin Mirdāw al-Ka‘bī] of Mohammerah [Khorramshahr]. The correspondence is mostly between the Government of India (Foreign Department), Foreign Office, and India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. . Included as enclosures are letters, telegrams, and memoranda from the following:
- Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary;
- British Minister to Persia, Tehran;
- representatives of Anglo-Persian Oil Company;
- Percy Zachariah Cox, Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ;
- Shaikh Khazal of Mohammerah;
- Messrs Lloyd, Scott, and Co., agents of Anglo-Persian Oil Company in Mohammerah;
- Persian government officials;
- Arnold Talbot Wilson, Acting Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia.
Several matters are covered by the papers, including:
- the negotiations over a loan to Shaikh Khazal by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company for the use of land on Abadan Island for an oil refinery;
- the question of what is to be done with company buildings on the island when the concession period ends;
- the nature of Shaikh Khazal's rights to the land in question;
- the Persian Government's exceptions to some of the terms of the agreement;
- the question of guards for the refinery and who will pay for them.
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- File 1421/1908 Pt 3 'Persia: oil; negotiations between the Shaikh of Mohammerah and the Anglo-Persian Oil Co.'
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- 218r:242v, 243v:246v, 247v:255r, 256v:257r, 258v:264r, 265r:267v, 269v:271r, 272v:273v, 275v:278r, 280r:282r, 283v:284v, 285v:293r, 294r, 295v:315r, 316r:316v, 319v:325v, 328r:328v, 329v:331v, 332v, 333v:336v, 337v:338v, 339v:340v, 341v:347v, 349r:349v, 351v, 353v:358v, 362r:382v, 384v:386v
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