File 868/1904 Pt 5 'Consular: Peru; jurisdiction of Peruvian Consul-General at Hong Kong'
Scope & Content:
Part 5 contains correspondence between the Foreign Office and the India Office, on the appointment of a Peruvian Consul-General at Hong Kong, with jurisdiction 'in all the British possessions in Asia'.
File 1855/1904 Pt 2 'Koweit:- Postal arrangements. Establishment of a regular Post Office.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns proposals for the opening of a Post Office at Koweit [Kuwait]. The principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Major Percy Zachariah Cox); the Political Agent at Kuwait (from 1904 Major Stuart George Knox; from 1909, Captain William Henry Irvine Sh...
The papers concern the proposal that vessels from Koweit [Kuwait] should adopt a distinctive flag, and the likely reaction this would bring from the Government of Turkey [the Ottoman Empire]. The principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Major Percy Zachariah Cox)...
The map shows a region of south-western Persia, indicating proposed routes of railway lines, hydrology, settlements, roads and administrative boundaries. The map also indicates limits of river navigation and the locations of customs houses
File 3540/1914 Pt 9 'German War: officers lent to the War Office; Major F. M. Bailey'
Scope & Content:
This part contains correspondence relating to the case of Frederick Marshman Bailey and his loan by the India Office to the War Office during the time of the First World War.
A map indicating the locations of four buoys and one stone beacon in Bahrein Harbour in the Persian Gulf. The buoys and beacon are marked in manuscript with corresponding arrows drawn in the right margin. The base map on which the buoys are indicated is Admiralty chart 20, 'Published at the Adm...
File 390/1917 Pt 2 ‘Persia: exclusion of undesirable aliens from’
Scope & Content:
This part contains correspondence relating to the desire of the British Government to prevent ‘undesirable aliens’ from entering Persia [Iran]. Much of the correspondence relates to: the suggestion of Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, Acting British Minister to Persia, Teheran [Tehran], that the Britis...
File 2023/1919 Pt 12 ‘MESOPOTAMIA: Proceedings of SAMARRA Divisional Council’
Scope & Content:
This item comprises papers relating to the establishment of the Divisional Council at Samarra, in Mesopotamia [Iraq] under the British colonial administration. Papers comprise an India Office Political Department memorandum and enclosure in print and typescript, notably covering: Relative expense...