Reports on the Masqat arms traffic; Foreign Department notes on arms traffic in the Persian Gulf; note addressed to Colonel Wilfrid Malleson by Horatio Herbert Kitchener.
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Three items: A) a bound volume containing reports on the Masqat [Muscat] arms traffic, dated 1908-1909; B) Foreign Department notes on the arms traffic in the Persian Gulf, containing copies of correspondence, dated 1909; C) an undated note written by the Commander-in-Chief in India, Horatio Her...
Bound volume containing two secret reports, both authored by Colonel Wilfrid Malleson (referred to as Division of the Chief of the Staff in the first report, and Assistant Quarter Master General for Intelligence in the second), and both issued by the Division of the Chief of the Staff in 1909. ...
Map indicating routes taken by the Masqat [Muscat] arms trade from the Persian (Makran) coast and inland, into Persia, Baluchistan and Afghanistan. The routes are marked with solid red lines, and annotated with red letters and numbers which are identified in the accompanying report (ff 22-23). Ma...
‘Foreign Department Notes. Arms Traffic in the Persian Gulf.’
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Printed copies of correspondence and memoranda relating to the arms traffic in the Persian Gulf: a letter from Leonard William Reynolds of the Government of India, dated 29 June 1909 (ff 2-3) a confidential letter from the British Minister to Belgium, Arthur Henry Hardinge, to the Secretary of S...
Note (with envelope) from the Commander-in-Chief in India, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, to Colonel Wilfrid Malleson
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Handwritten note (with envelope) addressed to Colonel [Wilfrid] Malleson (of the Intelligence Branch, Indian Army Headquarters), written by the Commander-in-Chief in India, Horatio Herbert Kitchener. The note refers to the ‘state of the army’, and a disagreement between Kitchener and an individu...
