ملف رقم ١٤٢١ لسنة ١٩٠٨، جزء ٣، "بلاد فارس: النفط؛ مفاوضات بين شيخ المحمرة وشركة النفط الأنجلو-فارسية" [و‎‎٣‎٤‎٩] (٣٣٨/٢٦٣)

PERSIA.
[June 12 .] fn \\ > o
JNFIDENTIAL.
Section 3-
[21595]
No. 1 .
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(No. 1 . Confidential.)
Sir,
Foreign Office to Consul-General Cox.
Foreign Office, Jane 12, 1909.' 1
.WITH reference to the telegram No. 292 of this day’s date to His Majesty’s
Minister at Tehran, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you copies
i C o^ ie -vR° n( ] e w C ?’ aS rnar ^ e ^ th® margin,* on the subject of the proposed loan to
the Sheikh of Mohammerah.
Ton will find the exact terms on which the company are willing to grant a loan
of 10,0001 in the draft lease enclosed in Mr. Wallace’s letter of the 9 th instant.
Sii E. Grey amU be glad if you will concert with Mr. J. JB. Lloyd, the company’s agent,
who is now at Mohammerah, as to the steps that should he taken to communicate the
draft to the Sheikh.
His Majesty’s Government trust that the terms contained in the form of lease,
which appear reasonable, will be accepted by the Sheikh "without alteration, but should
in the course of the negotiations a deadlock arise over any point, Mr. Lloyd has power
to effect a settlement on the spot.
I am to invite your special attention to the fact that the company must insist on
their lease from the Sheikh being coextensive with their concession from the Persian
Government or any extension thereof, and also that as regards the question of the
lapse of the company s buildings, machinery, &c., at the expiration of their concession
from the Persian Government, or of any extension thereof, the company are unable, in
view' of their engagement to the Persian Government, to agree to the proposed reversion
to the Sheikh, but they are quite willing, if it is thought advisable to dispense with a
definite pronouncement, that such buildings, &c., shall lapse to the Persian Government,
and it does^ not seem necessary to raise this question with the Sheikh, who should be
contented with a statement that the company undertake that the buildings, machinery,
&c., will not be removed at the expiration of the concession, or of any extension
thereof.
* To Anglo-Persian Oil Company, May 24; Anglo-Persian Oil Company, May 27; ditto, June 9, 1909.
I am, &c.
LOUIS MALLET.
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