File 4949/1912 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf: Abu Musa oxide’

Title:

File 4949/1912 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf: Abu Musa oxide’

Contributor:

Political Resident, Persian Gulf (correspondent)
Robert Wönckhaus and Company (correspondent)
Foreign Office (correspondent)
Frank C Strick and Company Limited, shipping company (correspondent)
Government of Persia, Qajar dynasty (correspondent)

Date:

1912/1923

Description:

Copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the mining of red oxide on the island of Abū Mūsá in the Persian Gulf, before and after the First World War. The volume’s principal correspondents are: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox); Foreign Office officials (chiefly Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe); representatives of the British firm Frank C Strick & Company Limited (including Frank Clarke Strick); representatives of the German firm Robert Wönckhaus & Company.Correspondence dated 1912 to 1913 refers to informal negotiations between Foreign and India Office representatives, the German Ambassador to London, and Robert Wönckhaus & Company, over the payment of compensation to Robert Wönckhaus & Company for loss of income and the relinquishment of concession rights for the mining of red oxide at Abū Mūsá, in the wake of the withdrawal of the concession by the Ruler of Sharjah, Shaikh Seker [Shaikh Ṣaqr bin Khālid Āl Qāsimī] in 1907.Correspondence dated 1914 concerns assessments, submitted by representatives of Frank C Strick & Company Limited, and analysed by the British Government’s Board of Trade, on the value and deterioration in quality of the red oxide left by Robert Wönckhaus & Co at Abū Mūsá.Correspondence dated 1921 to 1923 relates to: Frank C Strick & Company’s concession negotiations with the Shaikh of Sharjah, over red oxide extraction at Abū Mūsá, mediated through the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; reports of concession negotiations undertaken by Persian commercial interests for red oxide mining on the island of Hormuz [Jazīreh-ye Hormoz, also referred to in the volume as Ormuz]; diplomatic exchanges between representatives of the British and Persian Government (some in French) over historic Persian claims to the islands in the Persian Gulf, including Abū Mūsá and Tamb [Tunb].1 volume (277 folios)The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.The subject 4949 (Abu Musa oxide) consists of six volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/318-323. The volumes are divided into six parts, with each part comprising one volume. Part 6 (IOR/L/PS/10/323) is missing.Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 279; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.

Language:

English
French

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Ferric oxide
Concessions, red oxide, Abu Musa
Mining
Concessions
Bilateral relations
Imperialism

Geographic region:

Abū Mūsá
Hormuz

Extent:

1 volume (277 folios)

Rights:

Unknown
Creative Commons Non-Commercial Licence
Public Domain
Creative Commons Attribution Licence
Open Government Licence

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000419.0x0000d2_ar
81055/vdc_100000000419.0x0000d2_en
IOR/L/PS/10/318

Is part of:

British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

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