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1221. IOR/L/PS/10/668

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/668
Title:
File 1010/1917 ‘PERSIA: CONCESSIONS – Khostaria concession; Leach concession; Toumaniantz concession’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to applications from foreign interests for oil concessions in Persia [Iran]. These were of interest to the British Government because of the potential threat they presented to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company’s [APOC] monopoly on oil exploration and extra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
7 Mar 1917-13 Aug 1922
Extent:

1 volume (230 folios)

1222. IOR/L/PS/10/669

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/669
Title:
File 1250/1917 ‘Turkey:– The Ottoman Public Debt. Salif Salt Quarries.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to rock salt extraction at Salif [As Salif] in Yemen. The correspondence chiefly concerns various efforts on the part of British interests to agree a concession for the extraction of rock salt at Salif, a concession operated prior to the First World War b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1917-9 Jul 1929
Extent:

1 volume (223 folios)

1223. IOR/L/PS/10/670

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/670
Title:
File 1323/1917 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: Postage Stamps'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of letters and telegrams related to the temporary administration of Baghdad Vilayet [province] and the question of the type of postage stamps to be used for the civil post office at Baghdad during the British occupation. The correspondence is partic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
26 Mar 1915-18 Dec 1918
Extent:
1 volume (274 folios)

1224. IOR/L/PS/10/671

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/671
Title:
File 1323/1917 Pt 2-5 ‘Mesopotamia: Postage Stamps.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of letters, memoranda and telegrams related to the supply of overprinted stamps of Mesopotamia/Iraq. The main issues discussed in the volume are the following: The question of whether to continue using the overprinted Turkish stamps after the declar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
8 Oct 1917-2 Mar 1921
Extent:
1 volume (344 folios)

1225. IOR/L/PS/10/672

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/672
Title:
File 1355/1917 Pt 1 ‘Peace Settlement- The Arms Traffic Convention 1919’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of telegrams, minutes, and reports concerning arms trafficking after the war. Among the reports in the volume is a report submitted by the Committee of Imperial Defence to the Under-Secretary of State for India, Political Department, India Office. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
22 Jan 1917-16 Oct 1919
Extent:
1 volume (296 folios)

1226. IOR/L/PS/10/673

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/673
Title:
File 1355/1917 Pt 2, 4-5 'Arms Traffic Convention.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of telegrams, minutes, and reports concerning arms trafficking after the war. In particular, the correspondence is concerned with the ratification of the Arms Traffic Convention of 1919 (hereinafter referred to as the Convention) by the League of Na...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
21 Dec 1917-27 Sep 1924
Extent:

1 volume (472 folios)

1227. IOR/L/PS/10/674

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/674
Title:
File 1355/1917 Pt 3 'Arms Traffic - Convention'
Scope & Content:
The papers in this volume relate to the Arms Traffic Convention (1919). The papers include: The final text of the Arms Traffic Convention signed at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, containing the names of the signatory states, 10 September-23 October 1919; the opinions of the French and British governmen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
13 Oct 1919-20 Jan 1921
Extent:
1 volume (343 folios)

1228. IOR/L/PS/10/675

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/675
Title:
File 1355/1917 Pt 6 'Arms Traffic Convention: revised convention, 1925'
Scope & Content:
The papers in this volume relate to the revised international Arms Traffic Convention (1925). The papers include: The right to supply munitions to the governments of Afghanistan, Nepal and Tibet should they fall within the ‘prohibited zone’, 11 December 1924; the preference for including all co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Feb 1925-29 Apr 1926
Extent:

1 volume (609 folios)

1229. IOR/L/PS/10/683

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/683
Title:
File 2006/1917 'ARABIA: ARAB CONFEDERACY'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, telegrams, summaries, reports, notes and other papers concerning the support given by Britain to the tribes of South Arabia [present-day Yemen] in 1917, chiefly in relation to Britain’s principal wartime aim of ousting the Turks [Ottoman Empire] from the regi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1917-Nov 1917
Extent:
1 volume (295 folios)

1230. IOR/L/PS/10/686

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/686
Title:
File 2571/1917 'MESOPOTAMIA: FUTURE ADMINISTRATION'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises memoranda, notes, telegrams, correspondence and minutes, relating to the British Government’s policy on the future administration of Mesopotamia [Iraq]. Selected papers of the War Cabinet’s Mesopotamia Administration Committee, and its successors the Middle East Committee an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1917-10 Oct 1919
Extent:
1 volume (185 folios)

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