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1131. IOR/L/PS/10/555

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/555
Title:
File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers concerning oil exploration and applications for oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and in the frontier region between Mesopotamia and Persia [Iran] during and in the years following the First World War, when Mesopotamia was under British military occupation and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Feb 1918-18 Dec 1919
Extent:

1 volume (234 folios)

1132. IOR/L/PS/10/556

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/556
Title:
File 2249/1915 Pt 2 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia and Persia: oil; Sir J Cowan's deputation & Standard Oil Co.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to oil exploration and the acquisition of oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq] (and to a lesser degree, Persia [Iran]) by oil companies. The companies involved are: the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC); the Shell Transport Company (STC, also referred to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919-1921
Extent:

1 volume (294 folios)

1133. IOR/L/PS/10/557

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/557
Title:
File 2249/1915 Pt 3-4 ‘IRAQ & PERSIA. OIL’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 3 and 4 of the subject ‘IRAQ & PERSIA. OIL’. Part 3 (IOR/L/PS/10/557/1) concerns a dispute between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) and the Government of Persia [Iran] over royalty payments and compensation for damage done to oil pipelines. Part 4 (IOR/L/PS/10/5...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919-1924
Extent:

1 volume (334 folios)

1134. 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)

1135. IOR/L/PS/10/559

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/559
Title:
File 3086/1915 Pt 2 'German War: Arabia'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to British political and strategic policy 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. Particularly it discusses rela...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Nov 1914-22 Oct 1915
Extent:
1 volume (231 folios)

1136. 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)

1137. 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)

1138. 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)

1139. 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)

1140. IOR/L/PS/10/564

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/564
Title:
File 3104/1915 Pt 1 ‘German War: conquered territory: status: question of trading; looting, etc. of goods by Turks.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the status of cargo consignments held at Basra, Mesopotamia, for export to Britain, during the British invasion of Turkish Mesopotamia [Iraq] in November 1914. The file includes: discussion as to whether consignments of cargo that are on their way from...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Nov 1914-23 Nov 1915
Extent:

1 volume (198 folios)

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