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1551. IOR/L/PS/12/340

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/340
Title:
PZ 1071/1940 ''Forminka' and 'Katodon' telegrams: last number for each year'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers which record the numbers of the last coded telegrams sent each year between 1931 and 1947. These details are captured on draft papers and official telegrams sent between HM Minister at Kabul and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The coded telegrams from the F...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1931-9 Jan 1947
Extent:
1 file (35 folios)

1552. IOR/L/PS/12/341

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/341
Title:
PZ 1072/40 'Consular: List of Salaried Consular Officers and List of Consular Officers permitted to trade 1939-1946 annually'
Scope & Content:
This file contains the British Government's published lists of career and non-career consular officers from 1939 to 1946. The file is primarily composed of annually published pamphlets listing consular staff, their rank, titular office, acting officers, and date of appointment.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1940-20 Nov 1946
Extent:
1 file (155 folios)

1553. IOR/L/PS/12/342

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/342
Title:
PZ 1076/40 ‘Arms Traffic Persian Gulf. Licences for export of Arms etc to the Persian Gulf Ports’
Scope & Content:
The file consists largely of monthly returns compiled by the Board of Trade and which relate to the licensing of British arms exports by sea to Muscat and the ports of the Persian Gulf, notably Basra (or Basrah). The returns contain the following information for every arms export listed: the exp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jan 1931-8 Sep 1939
Extent:
1 file (355 folios)

1554. IOR/L/PS/12/343

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/343
Title:
PZ 1125/40 'German propaganda in the Near East'
Scope & Content:
This document, written by Basil Cochrane Newton (the British Ambassador at Baghdad), outlines concerns that Shakib Arslan is assisting the German Government in planning and organising uprisings in Syria, Iraq, Transjordan and Palestine, and that he is in correspondence with the Grand Mufti of Je...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Feb 1940-28 Feb 1940
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

1555. IOR/L/PS/12/344

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/344
Title:
PZ 1130/1940 'Death of Lt Col Sir T C W Fowle, late Political Resident Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
The papers in this file relate to the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Trenchard Craven William Fowle (Political Resident in the Persian Gulf) and the actions taken by British officials to commemorate him. Many items are draft papers and include the original notice of death to be sent from the Sec...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Feb 1940-24 Apr 1942
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

1556. IOR/L/PS/12/347

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/347
Title:
PZ 1217/1940 'Persia: Kurdistan tribal situation'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to the tribal situation in Kurdistan in 1933, and an alleged increase in Kurdish nationalist feeling in 1940 in Iraq and Iran. The main correspondents are Alan Charles Trott (Military Attaché in Tehran) in 1933, and Reader William Bullard (HM Minister at Tehran...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Aug 1933-16 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

1557. IOR/L/PS/12/355

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/355
Title:
PZ 1448/1940 'Sino-Japanese dispute: visit of Chinese Moslem delegation to Turkey and Afghanistan'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence in this file relates to the expected visit of two Chinese Muslims to Afghanistan following their stay in Angora. The upcoming event is highlighted in a letter from Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen (HM Ambassador to Turkey) to Viscount Halifax (Secretary of State for Foreign...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Mar 1940-28 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

1558. IOR/L/PS/12/356

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/356
Title:
PZ 1507/1940 'UK-Persia: agreement to facilitate Persian purchases of material for defence and development'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a copy of an agreement intended to facilitate Persian purchases of material for defence and development (folios 7-10), and letters relating to the agreement. The agreement was forward by the Secretary to the Treasury, whilst the other documents, including letters written by Rea...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Mar 1940-28 Sep 1940
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

1559. IOR/L/PS/12/359

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/359
Title:
PZ 1673/40 'Activities of ADC to Shaikh of Kuwait'
Scope & Content:
This file contains translated correspondence sent between Izzat Mohamed Jaafar, the Aide-de-Camp and Private Secretary to the Shaikh of Kuwait, and George Maratos of Alexandria. The correspondence relates to the activities of Jaafar, in particular his negotiations over the purchase of arms, and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Mar 1940-22 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

1560. IOR/L/PS/12/361

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/361
Title:
PZ 1682/1940 'Propaganda: tour of the Middle East by Mr Rushbrook-Williams, Ministry of Information, for discussion of propaganda problems'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to a tour of the Middle East by Laurence Frederic Rushbrook-Williams in 1940 to discuss propaganda problems in the area and improve the co-ordination of pro-British propaganda. The main correspondents in the file are Rushbrook-Williams (Adviser for Midd...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1940-16 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

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