'Volume II. MEMORANDA REGARDING OTHER EXTERNAL AFFAIRS. 1905.' [‎19r] (42/228)

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11. {Vide paragrapli 12 of Memorandum
for January 1905.) In reply to a statement
that the Foreign Office had objected to Major
Grey’s action in moving the Sultan to refuse
facilities to the French Vice-Consul, the
Secretary of State has been informed that
Major Grey did not act as described, and
that he only suggested to the Sultan that, owing
to the unsettled condition of the tribes and the
increase of anti-European feeling occasioned by
recent events connected with the island of
Masseerah, the Vice-Consul should be recom
mended not to journey in the direction of Sur.
12. {Vide paragraphs 13-20 of Memo
randum for March 1905.) The Indian Govern
ment telegraphed to the Secretary of State, on
the 15th April 1905, that particular stress
should be laid in the British counter case on
the inclusion of three men no longer living in
the French list of proteges ; also on the denial of
the Sultan’s sovereignty implied by the refusal
of the proteges at Sur to discuss their status
with His Highness; and on any specific cases
Customs evasion by French proteges. It was
suggested that an effort should be made to obtain
from the French the further details required
by the Sultan as to their proteges.
13. In reply to an enquiry, the Secretary
of State has been informed that there is
nothing to show that any reference was made
to the Sultan, or to the local authorities, pre
vious to the landing at Gwadur in 1S96 of a
British escort to the Perso-Baluch Frontier
Commission. It is not known whether any
thing passed between the Governor of Gwadur
and the native telegraph assistant, but they
are, as a rule, in constant communication.
14. Owing to the arbitrators on both
sides not being able to agree upon an umpire
within the allotted time {vide paragraph 10 of
Memorandum for November 1904) the choice
will have to be entrusted to the King of Italy.
15. Musandim .—On the 31st March, the
Secretary of State telegraphed that no further
discussion with the Admiralty w r as considered
necessary with respect to the pattern of flag to
be flown from the flagstaffs erected in the
neighbourhood of the Musandim promontory,
and that, after consideration of the subject by
the Defence Committee, His Majesty’s Govern
ment had decided to rely for the protection of
our interests in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. on the state
ment made by Lord Lansdowne in the House of
Lords, in May 1903, that His Majesty’s Gov
ernment would resist by all available means
the establishment by any Foreign Povrer of a
Naval base in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . No action is
to be taken until the Hague Tribunal has
given its award on the Maskat case.
16. Koiveit and Nejd.—{Vide paragraph
12 of the Memorandum for May 1904.) The
Secretary of State has been asked whether the
time has not come when it should be intimated