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1561. IOR/L/PS/12/364

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/364
Title:
PZ 1906/1940 'Persian Gulf: shipment of Political Residents' personal stores'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the interception of mail sent by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior. Details of the intercepted mail, regarding the shipment of his personal stores, are included in the file, alongside correspondence...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Apr 1940-13 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

1562. IOR/L/PS/12/365

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/365
Title:
PZ 2031/1940 'Staff tour to Kuwait and Bahrain for reconnaissance for landing of mechanised forces'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to a reconnaissance mission to Kuwait by British officers. The correspondence mainly focuses on the fact that the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf was not informed of the tour in advance. The main correspondents are the Political Resident, the Government...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1940-23 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

1563. IOR/L/PS/12/367

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/367
Title:
PZ 2108/40 'Press article by H N Brailsford: need to discourage this type of article'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence sent between British officials in the India relating to their reactions to an article, 'Why this army in the East?', which was written by Henry Noel Brailsford and published by the British newspaper Reynolds News. The main correspondents are Roland Tennyson Pee...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Apr 1940-9 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

1564. IOR/L/PS/12/368

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/368
Title:
PZ 2123/40 'Wartime censorship: intercepted letters'
Scope & Content:
This file contains various excerpts from, and full translations of, letters sent during the Second World War and intercepted by the Government of India. The file includes: a letter from a member of staff from LM Ericsson relating to the sale and shipping of fuses to the Royal Ministry of Posts, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Apr 1940-5 May 1941
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

1565. IOR/L/PS/12/370

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/370
Title:
PZ 2186/40 'Iraq: government's desire for copies of certain treaties and agreements with Arab rulers not in Aitchison's Treaties'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the Iraqi Government's desire for copies of certain treaties and agreements, made between HM Government and Arab rulers, which do not appear in Charles Umpherston Aitchison's Treaties. Folios 9-12 provide a list of treaties relating to Arab principal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1940-26 Jul 1940
Extent:
1 file (13 folios)

1566. IOR/L/PS/12/371

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/371
Title:
PZ 2216/40 'Bahrain to be main collecting and temporary detention port in the Persian Gulf: question of responsibility'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a letter sent to the Secretary of State for India by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, on behalf of the Political Agent in Bahrain, and a draft reply. The subject of the correspondence is a question of whether or not Bahra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1940-6 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

1567. IOR/L/PS/12/372

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/372
Title:
PZ 2221/40 'Use of wrong code in telegram from Ministry of Economic Warfare to Tehran'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a telegram from the Ministry of Economic Warfare addressed to Sir Reader Bullard, the British Ambassador of Tehran, including related correspondence regarding the use an incorrect telegram code. The telegram refers to a proposed future purchase of wool in Iran.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1940 - 27 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

1568. IOR/L/PS/12/376

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/376
Title:
PZ 2540/40 'Censorship: connivance at use of cypher in messages to and from Ibn Saud and the two Amirs'
Scope & Content:
This file contains two telegrams about the use of cypher in messages between Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Political Resident, Bushire.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1940-16 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

1569. IOR/L/PS/12/377

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/377
Title:
PZ 2582/40 Anglo-Saudi relations: desire of Petroleum Concessions Western Arabia to cease operations: Ibn Saud's desire for them to continue to prevent Italian takeover
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 May 1940-7 May 1940
Extent:
1 file

1570. IOR/L/PS/12/378

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/378
Title:
PZ 2749/40 'Persia: Sardar Muhammed Amir Khan Nauroi'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a letter from HM Consul General in Khorasan, Meshed (Giles Frederick Squire) to the Secretary of the Government of India External Affairs Department. The letter discusses and includes a report from HM Vice Consul, Zabul concerning his meeting with the Sarder [Sardir] Muhammad A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Apr 1940-15 Aug 1940
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

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