File 53/23 (D 12) Murder on Sheikh Mubarak's Fao Estates by Turks
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This file contains correspondence regarding the murder of a man and woman on property in Fao [The Al Faw Peninsula in Iraq] owned by Shaikh Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ, the ruler of Kuwait. Mulla Muhammad (also written as Moola Mahomet in the file), Shaikh Mubārak 's agent in Fao, is reported to have fou...
File 53/57 II (D 52) Boundary dispute between Bin Saud and Shaikh of Kuwait
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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the deliniation of the Kuwait-Najd frontier. The file contains a translation of a letter from the ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ to James Carmichael More, the British Political Agent in Kuwait that thanks the...
File 53/80 I (D 82) Ownership of Shaikh of Kuwait's Date Gardens in Iraq
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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding date gardens in southern Iraq owned by the ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ. The correspondence concerns the Government of Iraq's decision to end the immunity from taxation (on the gardens) that had been granted...
File 59/15 B (A 14) Muscat: slave trade under cover of French flag
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The volume comprises correspondence and other papers relating to competing British and French interests in Muscat and Oman at the beginning of the twentieth century. The principal point of contention between British officials, represented by Percy Cox (Muscat Political Agent 1899-1903), was the ...
This file contains correspondence between the British Political Agent at Bahrain; the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire and later at Bahrain; various Senior Naval Officers in the Persian Gulf, including Captain V S Butler, Captain Allan Poland, Captain Cosmo Moray Graham,...
The file’s correspondence concerns an agreement to exempt customs duty on imports (particularly of oil and petrol) to the Royal Air Force (RAF) base at Muharraq in Bahrain. The key correspondents in the file are the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman, from October 1937 to October 1940, M...
‘File 7/14 I R.A.F. wards in Bahrain Govt. hospital’
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The correspondence in the file relates to a request for new arrangements in the allocation of wards at the Bahrain Government Hospital. In March 1945 Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, formally made a request to the Political Agent at Bahrain that the one or both of...
'File 8/37 Note by H.M.'s Consul, Bandar Abbas, on Jask Mutineers'
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The file contains correspondence relating to the movements of Dr Habib, an Iranian Government employee and resident of Lar, and based on a note by the British Consul at Bandar Abbas, Reginald Michael Hadow. The correspondence is between the following: Charles Geoffrey Prior, Political Resident i...
File 12/5 (1 A/23) Administration - Activities of the Persian Navy
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This file contains correspondence concerning a number of incidents in which vessels of the Persian Government detained or interfered with Arab vessels in the Gulf. The correspondence discusses the details of these incidents (most of which relate to Bahraini vessels) and also contains broader dis...
File 43/1 Activitie [sic] of Tudeh Party in the Persian Gulf
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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding matters related to the Tudeh Party, an Iranian Communist political party. The main topics discussed are as follows: reports of the popularity of the Tudeh Party among Indians working for the Kuwait Oil Company (ff 5-9); report...
