"الأكسيد الأحمر في أبو موسى، ١٨٩٨-١٩٣٤" [و‎‎٣] (١٢/٥)

19 23 of the red oxide deposits in Abu Musa
on tiie following conditions:
A single i.mediate payment of Rs.6000.
Royalty of Hs, 2 per ton on any
minerals exported ^jith a guaranteed
minimum payment of Hs.SOOO annually
whether any minerals were exported or not.
It is not clear whether the agreement
was, as originally contemplated by the Company,
subject ' T to the usual restrictions regarding
liberty of action on the island and freedom
from other dues". Nor does any formal
expression of the undertaking regarding British
control referred to in the preceding paragraph
appear to have been included. It was decided
at the time that the undertaking in question
sufficiently met the practical necessities
of the case and that this point need not be
pursued.
4. On E7th April 1923 Sir Percy Loraine
telegraphed to the Foreign Office that he
had learned confidentially that the
concessionnaire (the Moin-ut-Tu^jar) of the
Hormuz Oxide Concession was urging the
Persian Government to raise the Persian claim
to Abu Musa, couple that to Bahrein, and
refer both matters to the League of Nations.
"As he has considerable political importance
he may succeed in persuading the Persian
Government to send an agent from a Gulf
port to endeavour to stop work at Abu Musa".
The fact that the Persian claim to Abu Musa*
was/