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111. IOR/L/PS/10/528

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/528
Title:
File 74/1915 Pt 1 'German War: banks at Basra'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other India Office papers relating to banks in Basra [Basrah or Bassorah or Busreh] during the First World War. It includes papers relating to: Whether or not Basra was classed as ‘enemy territory’, and whether the London Agency of the Imperial Ottoman Bank ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Nov 1914-31 May 1917
Extent:

1 volume (204 folios)

112. IOR/L/PS/10/529

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/529
Title:
File 74/1915 Pt 2 'German War: Banks at Basra +c. - the Eastern Bank'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence and other papers mostly related to the Eastern Bank being invited by the Secretary of State for India to open a branch at Basra and to conduct the banking business of the Government of India at Basra. It also includes papers relating to: the Eastern Bank offer...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Mar 1915-23 Jan 1918
Extent:

1 volume (212 folios)

113. IOR/L/PS/10/558

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/558
Title:
File 3086/1915 Pt 1 'German War: Red Sea and Arabia (1914)'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to consideration by the British of the political and strategic situation in the Red Sea area near Aden and actions which might promote British interests in the period up to the start of the First World War....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1914-21 Jul 1915
Extent:
1 volume (179 folios)

114. IOR/L/PS/10/560

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/560
Title:
File 3086/1915 Pt 3-4 'ARABIA: RED SEA – POLICY'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains two parts: IOR/L/PS/10/560/1 and IOR/L/PS/10/560/2. IOR/L/PS/10/560/1 discusses Red Sea policy during the period 1915-16 and issues such as negotiations with the Imam of Yemen and the Idrisi Saiyid [Sayyid Muḥammad bin ‘Alī al-Idrīsī], as well the effect of the British blo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1915-16 Jan 1916
Extent:
1 volume (407 folios)

115. IOR/L/PS/10/561

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/561
Title:
File 3086/1915 Pt 5 'Arabia: Red Sea – Trade during German War'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the blockade of trade in the Red Sea during the First World War. The discussion in the volume relates to: Export of grain to Eritrea: removal of limit on Sudanese exports Restriction on navigators of I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 5 1915-18 Sept 1919
Extent:
1 volume (475 folios)

116. IOR/L/PS/10/562

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/562
Title:
File 3086/1915 Pt 6-7 'ARABIA: RED SEA ISLANDS – AFFAIRS 1915-19'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains two parts: IOR/L/PS/10/562/1 and IOR/L/PS/10/562/2. IOR/L/PS/10/562/1 consists of correspondence relating to the political and military situation on the Red Sea littoral in the period 1915-18. The correspondence discusses the Treaty with the Idrisi Saiyid, reported overtures...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1919
Extent:
1 volume (311 folios)

117. IOR/L/PS/10/563

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/563
Title:
File 3086/1915 Pt 8-9 'ARABIA:- ARMS FOR SAYYID IDRISSI'
Scope & Content:
IOR/L/PS/10/563 comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the British policy of supporting Idrisi Saiyid [Sayyid Muḥammad bin ‘Alī al-Idrīsī] involving the supply of munitions to assist the Idrisi in conflict with the Ottoman Empire. The volume is compos...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1925
Extent:
1 volume (472 folios)

118. IOR/L/PS/10/579

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/579
Title:
File 160/1916 Pt 1-2 'PERSIA: MILITARY OPERATIONS 1916. SIR P. SYKES MISSION.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to military operations in Persia in 1916 and Brigadier General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes' mission to create a military force. Topics discussed in the correspondence include: The proposed increase of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 volume (491 folios)

119. IOR/L/PS/10/580

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/580
Title:
File 160/1916 Pt 3 'German War: Persia; Sir P Sykes' mission. Officers for South Persia Military Police; South Persia Rifles'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the transfer of various individuals from military units in India to positions in the South Persia Rifles, and associated issues of grading and pay. The discussions concern the conditions for medical off...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1920
Extent:
1 volume (181 folios)

120. IOR/L/PS/10/584

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/584
Title:
File 475/1916 'PERSIA: POLICY - 1916. The proposed Treaty of Alliance'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, telegrams, correspondence, memoranda, notes and printed papers in 1916 relating to the development of British policy towards Persia as well as the British relationship with Russia vis-à-vis its position and interests in Persia. The discussion in the v...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 volume (279 folios)