A short report regarding concessions granted for the mining of oxides on Abu Musa island, compliled for the Secretary of State for India. The report is divided into three sections: I. List of Principal Persons Concerned; II. Chronological Table of Principal Events; III. List of Communicatio...
The file consists of a printed document entitled 'Liabilities of Persia', which contains a transcription of a letter from the India Office to the Foreign Office. The letter is from John Evelyn Shuckburgh, India Office, to the Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office in response to proposals made...
This memorandum is a note by John Evelyn Shuckburgh, Political Department of the India Office, dated 21 Oct 1918, concerning the British administration of Mesopotamia, the status of the vilayets of Basra and Baghdad, and the establishment of a commission from London to research administrative pro...
This is a printed report prepared by the India Office concerning an inter-departmental conference held on 8 April 1919 to discuss the question of oil policy in Mesopotamia, with those present including: Sir Thomas Holderness; Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson, Civil Commissioner, Mesopotami...
This printed report, compiled by John Evelyn Shuckburgh of the Political Department, India Office, for the Eastern Committee, concerns the civil administration of Mesopotamia between 15 November 1917 and 15 January 1918. It consists of summaries of the first five periodical administrative report...
Typewritten summary, dated October 1923, listing the subsidies paid by the British Government to rulers on or in the waters around the Arabian littoral. A note underneath the title states that the list excludes loans made at various dates, some of which have been remitted. The list is tabulated,...
The file consists of a document by Sir John Evelyn Shuckburgh, the Secretary for the Political Department in the India Office, discussing the problems with retaining civil service staff during the period of transition in Mesopotamia from Ottoman to British rule. Recommendations are offered at th...
This file is a Foreign Office memorandum concerning the Baghdad railway written by Alwyn Parker,who had negotiated with both the German Government and the Ottoman Empire on this issue and was considered the Foreign Office's specialist on the topic. The memorandum is divided up as follows: 1. ...
This file is a report written by Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel of the Political Department of the India Office, regarding the Bagdad [Baghdad]-Basra railway scheme. The report asseses the political and commerical implications of the contruction of the Gulf section of the railway scheme and wheth...
