مجموعة ٢٩/ ٧٣ "الأهواز: منح تعويض لشيخ المحمرة عن الأموال التي قدمها لإنشاء مبنى قنصلي في الأهواز" [و‎‎١‎١‎٨] (٣٣١/٢٣٧)

liability ariBing out of tne failure of His Iv&jesty's
Government to implement tbeea assurances aas already
been aischar&au as fur as the Government of India are
concerned by lnaia*s contribution of £100,000,000
towards the cost of tne War. There coula be no
quest ion, therefore, of making any payment from Indian
revenues to the sheikh of Mohatturuh by say of
compensation on these grounds, so far as we,* enter
at ail into the picture.
But, quite apart from any question of
responsibility for implementing the 1914 assurances,
me feel that, in view of the circumstances in which
the 3bel BttfM into his agreement with the
Government of Inula to finance the building of a
Consulate at *%hwai, there is a strong case on other
grounds for a contribution from Indian revenues to any
gratia payment maae to aim. It is doubtless true
that the agreement between the aneikh and the
Government of India was a commercial transaction from
which the Gheikh hoped to benefit. But it is also
clear that he made the contract to oblige the
Government of Inula ana that by the contract he became
their/