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1. IOR/L/PS/10/308

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/308
Title:
File 4377/1912 'Muscat Arms Traffic: Complaints of British Firms'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, and reports relating to the consignment of armaments to Muscat. The discussion in the volume concerns the complaints of British firms regarding the impounding of these armaments, following the enforcement of new arms t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908-1913
Extent:
1 volume (213 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/604

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/604
Title:
File 2415/1916 ‘Aden Protectorate:- Gift of £10,000; Gift of Guns to Sultan of Lahej.’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the financial and military support Britain gave to tribes in South Arabia (present-day Yemen) during the First World War. Subjects covered include: in 1914, a declaration by the ‘Abdali Sultan of Lahej [Laḩij] of his longstanding f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Oct 1914-16 Feb 1928
Extent:

1 volume (284 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/1242

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1242
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 11 'Arabia: Iraq-Nejd Frontier Affairs: Ibn Saud's Request for Arms etc, Saudi Debts to H.M.G.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the supply of arms and ammunition to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], King of Hejaz [al-Ḥijāz] and Nejd, by the Government of India in 1929, to enable him to suppress potential trouble with the Ajman tribe. The papers go on to record the attempts...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 May 1929-9 Nov 1938
Extent:
1 file (485 folios)