Coll 35/34 'Persian Gulf: allocation of Persian call signs to Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's wireless stations at Abadan and Maidan-i-Naftun'
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The file concerns the allocation of call signs for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's wireless telegraph stations at Abadan and Maidan-i-Naftun, Iran. The file contains correspondence between the Secretary of State for India, the India Office, the Foreign Office, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, British...
Report and Proceedings of the Standing Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence on the Persian Gulf
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The report was printed for the Committee of Imperial Defence, November 1911, and approved on 14 December 1911. It concerns the situation in the Persian Gulf regarding the extent to which Turkish claims aligned with British interests, and engagements already made with the Sheikh of Koweit [Kuwait...
The volume comprises two parts discussing the Anglo-Turkish Agreement of 1913 and especially the negotiations with the Shaikh of Koweit [Kuwait] and Shaikh of Mahommera [Khorramshahr] with respect to their boundaries with Turkey. The volume comprises parts 1 and 2 of 2. Each part includes a div...
File 619/1907 Pt 2 'Arms Traffic:- Muscat dhows. "Kadra" case.'
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The volume discusses an alleged arms trafficking incident which occurred in December 1908. The El Khadra, a dhow owned by Mubarak bin Khamis, a subject of Muscat, was seized by Italian authorities off the coast of Ras Hafun [Raas Xaafuun] on charges of arms trafficking. The volume includes the...
File 2877/1914 'Persian Gulf and Mesopotamia: survey operations of RIMS Palinurus'
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the survey of the Persian Gulf by RIMS Palinurus. The discussion in the volume relates to the objectives, route, and associated costs of the survey of the Persian Gulf. Further discussion surrounds t...
File 2976/1916 Pt 1-2 'Persia: Bunder Abbas Kerman Telegraph and Road'
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The volume consists of two parts: Part 1 and Part 2 both contain papers relating to the construction of a telegraph line and road from Bandar Abbas (or Bunder Abbas or Bander Abbas) [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] to Kerman in Persia [Iran]; Part 2 also includes some papers relating to the development of road...
This volume is composed of interdepartmental correspondence relating to the future administration of the lighting and buoying service in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence notes that since 1911 the cost of the service, which is carried out by the Royal Indian Marine, has been shared between ...
The volume comprises correspondence, minutes, and reports relating mainly to political affairs of the Persian Gulf region. The correspondence consists of political despatches, with enclosed letters and reports, from Lieutenant-Colonel (Colonel from March 1885) Edward Charles Ross, Political Resi...
File 57/1905 ‘Arabia: - Situation in Yemen (1905-11). Arab revolt against Turks. Imam of Sanaa’s letter to the King. Fighting in Yemen 1911. Agreement between the Turks & the Imam’
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The volume contains letters and other papers, mainly by British Consular officials, reporting on the political situation in Yemen between 1905 and 1911. Their correspondence contains numerous military reports about Turkish troop and transport movements, the progress of the conflict between Turkis...
File 488/1920 Pt 3 ‘Hedjaz:- Relations between H.M. Govt & King Hussein. Question of subsidy. Negotiations for conclusion of a treaty.’
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The volume contains papers concerning relations between the British Government and the King of Hedjaz [Hejaz or Al-Hijaz]. Most of the papers relate to negotiations between the British Government and King Hussein ibn Ali al-Hashimi over the terms of an Anglo-Hashimite treaty, and revisions to ...
