ملف رقم ١٤٢١ لسنة ١٩٠٨، جزء ٣، "بلاد فارس: النفط؛ مفاوضات بين شيخ المحمرة وشركة النفط الأنجلو-فارسية" [و‎‎٢‎٩‎٣] (٣٣٨/١٥١)

[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty’s Government.]
PERSIA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[August 8.]
Section 1.
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No. 1.
Consul-General Cox to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received August 8 .)
(No. A)
g- r Bushire, July 16, 1910.
IN continuation of my despatch No. 3, dated the 20th June, 1910, I have the
honour to submit a copy, with translation, of the Sheikh of Mohammerah’s third
farman—in this case for the Fellahiyeh district—together with a copy of my covering
letter (No. 50, dated the 16th July, 1910), to His Majesty’s charge d’affaires,
Tehran.
I have, &c.
P. Z. COX, Lieutenant-Colonel, British Resident
in the Persian Gulf, and His Britannic
Majesty's Consul-General for Ears, Ac.
Enclosure 1 in No. 1.
Consul-General Cox to Mr. Marling.
(Nc 50. Confidential.) '
IN continuation of my despatch No. 42, dated the 26th June, 1910, I have the
honour to forward a further communication received from His Majesty’s acting consul
Mohammerah giving cover to vernacular copies, with translations of a third farman
and accompaniment possessed by the Sheikh of Mohammerah, by which the Fallahiyeh
district was bestowed upon him! It is couched in the same terms as the two firmans
already submitted with my despatch above quoted. . ,/r • ^ >
I am posting copies simultaneously to the Government of India and to His Majesty s
Foreign Office, London.
I n 3 iV 6 &c
P. Z. COX, Lieutenant-Colonel, British Resident
in the Persian Gulf, and His Britannic
Majesty's Consul-General for Ears, Ac.
Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
Acting Consul Wilson to Consul-General Cox.
(No. 685. Confidential.) Mohammerah, July 5, 1910.
WITH reference to the marginally noted correspondence,* I have the honour to
forward a copy of a third and last farman of Muzaffar-ud-Dm Shah, granting the distnc
of Fallahiyeh to the Sheikh of Mohammerah. i,.„o ;+
2 As we were not directly interested in this farman he dm not produce it along
with the others, but mentioned that he had it in his possession ; I asked to see it, in
order to take a copy, and he readily assented. ... , ,. •
3 Yesterday Haji Rais brought round the three original farmans and the covering
letters to the Sakr-ud-Daulah, with three copies of each, and asked me to certi y
the latter as true copies, as the Karguzar had already done. 1 Ins i did.
I have, &c. T j
A. T. WILSON, Lieutenant, LA.
* Consul-General Cox. No. 18 ? (Telegraphic), June 23 ; ditto, No. 42 , June 26 , 1910 .
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