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65 ADMINISTRATION REPORT OF THE PERSIAN GOLF POLITICAL RESIDF*NCY FOR 1009.

and would be in no hurry to come to a settlement as long as these conditions
continued. His Majesty’s Foreign Office accordingly informed the German
Government that we could not consent to the present situation being protracted
indefinitely and proposed an arrangement under which the island would now
be sterilized pending the settlement of the case. .There the question remained
up to the ena cf the year.
In April a report was received that the employes of the Moin-ut-Tujjar,
after operating on the Farur Island, had excavated about 100 tons of oxide
on Sirri Island, the ownership of which is in dispute, being claimed by the
Shaikh of Shargah as well as by the Persian Government. His Majesty^
Minister, Tehran, addressed the Persian Government requesting that measures
be taken to stop the Moin from further operations in Sirri, and in the result
the Moin undertook to desist from further mining in the island.
P. Z. COX, Lieut.-Colonel,
Political Resident in the Persian Gulfs

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