PERSIAN GULF INCIDENT.
• AMICABLE SETTLEMENT ANTICIPATED. By Telegraph.— Association.—Copyright. Berlin, December 17. In connection with the recent seizure on the Island of Abu Musa, in the Persian Gulf, Herr Moenckhaus, senior partner in the German firm involved, declares that the action of the British gunboat Lapwing in making the seizure was unjustifiable, since there was no coal or firearms on Abu Musa. The firm only worked the oxide mines under legal contract. It is believed that the incident will soon be settled amicably.
A British warship last week seized stores of coal and arms and products of tho oxide mines belonging to the Germar firm of Moenckhaus, on Abu Musa, which is in the Persian Gulf, about 50 miles inside the ■ Strait of Ormuz, on the ground that they were contraband of war. Gorman and English firms, it was stated, hold concessions from rival sheikhs, who each claim authority over the island. Some Berlin newspapers angrily attributed the warship's action to British jealousy at the competition of German shipping companies.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13625, 19 December 1907, Page 5
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