ملف رقم ١٤٢١ لسنة ١٩٠٨، جزء ٣، "بلاد فارس: النفط؛ مفاوضات بين شيخ المحمرة وشركة النفط الأنجلو-فارسية" [و‎‎٣‎٣‎٢] (٣٣٨/٢٢٩)

[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty’s Government.]
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PERSIA
Section 5.
[July 23.
[27814]
No. 1.
Sir,
Anglo-Pcrsian Oil Company to Foreign Office.—(Received July 23.)
Winchester House, Old Broad Street,
London, July 22, 1909.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of yesterday’s date
advising receipt of a telegram from His Majesty’s consul-general at Bushire confirmatory
of the one received by us from the company’s agents, as advised to you on the
20 th instant.
From what you write I understand that it is your desire that we should arrange
for the payment of the whole sum of 10,500/. (not 16,050/.) in gold to the sheikh, and
I have accordingly remitted the equivalent of this amount to Bombay to-day, and
instructed our agents there to purchase 16,500 sovereigns and ship them by the first
mail steamer to Messrs. Lloyd, Scott, and Co., Mohammerah, for payment to the sheikh.
As arranged with you over the telephone to-day, I understand, however, that you will
telegraph to His Majesty’s consul at Bushire, requesting him to advise the sheikh that
10,000/. of the above amount is being paid by Messrs. Lloyd, Scott, and Co., in respect
of the Government loan.
With regard to the two concluding paragraphs of your letter, we shall of course
do our utmost to comply with the sheikh’s request to delay over operations until the
present crisis at Tehran is at an end, but it will be difficult to do this for long, as one-
half of the pipe line is due for shipment from New York in August, and will probably
arrive some time in September. ..
His request for secrecy as to the execution and details of the agreement will ol
course be complied with.
I am, &c.
C. GREENING, Director.