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531. IOR/R/15/2/522

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/522
Title:
‘File 13/14 Customs exemption for Imperial Airways aircraft’
Scope & Content:
The file’s contents relate to a request from Imperial Airways Limited for a change in the level of customs duty payable on goods brought into Bahrain by their aircraft, which, they argue, is unreasonably high. The principal correspondents in the file are unnamed representatives of Imperial Airwa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Aug 1933-26 Jul 1934
Extent:
1 file (34 folios)

532. IOR/R/15/2/532

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/532
Title:
‘File 13/28 Sharjah air agreement (aerodrome facilities at Sharjah)’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the renegotiation of an air agreement with the Sheikh of Sharjah. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay, the Political Agent at Bahrai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jan 1946-5 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (210 folios)

533. IOR/R/15/2/541

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/541
Title:
File 14/7 Indian Representation in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file consists of two letters. The first, dated 14 December 1948, is from C S Jha, Secretary to the Government of India, Department of External and Commonwealth Relations, and Mohammad Habib, Professor of History at the Muslim University in Aligarh (both members of the Indian Delegation to Bah...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1948-15 Dec 1948
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

534. IOR/R/15/2/588

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/588
Title:
‘19/1 VISIT OF SCHOOL TEACHERS AND PUPILS TO BAHRAIN’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns educational visits to Bahrain, including a visit of six Iraqi teachers to Bahrain in 1933 (ff 2-9); a visit of Kuwait teachers and twenty-seven schoolboys and their possible interest in visiting the California-Arabian Standard Oil (CASCO) camp at Dhahran [al-Ẓahrān] in February...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1933-1 Apr 1941
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

535. IOR/R/15/2/593

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/593
Title:
‘19/5 SHUNKICHI NOMURA - JAPANESE OIL BROKER’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns a Japanese oil broker named Shunkichi Nomura; his intention to travel from Kabul to Iraq; the possibility he may be acting for the Japanese Government; and his eventual abandonment of plans to travel to Iraq. The file contains correspondence between Captain Everard Huddleston G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Aug 1933-25 Aug 1933
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

536. IOR/R/15/2/629

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/629
Title:
File 23/2 A Saudi-Yemen Situation Reports issued by Minister, Jeddah.
Scope & Content:
The file consists of situation reports from His Majesty's Minister at Jedda [Jeddah] (Sir Andrew Ryan) on the progress of hostilities between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, between March and July 1934. The reports are in the form of copies of telegrams (including one from the Political Agent, Kuwait) to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Mar 1934-7 Jul 1934
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)

537. IOR/R/15/2/691

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/691
Title:
‘File 28/10 Anti-British activities in Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to reports about and enquiries made into individuals at Bahrain, or travelling to Bahrain, and allegations of their anti-British activities. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Agent at Bahrain (Major Reginald George Evelin Willia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 May 1941-22 Jun 1942
Extent:
1 file (34 folios)

538. IOR/R/15/2/696

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/696
Title:
‘File 28/10-(e) War. St. John Philby’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence exchanged between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior), the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman), the British Government’s representative at Jedda, and officials at the Government of India and India Office ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1940-27 Aug 1940
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

539. IOR/R/15/2/697

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/697
Title:
‘File 28/10-(f) Italian on board “Helka”’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to the presence on board the tanker Helka, sailing from Aden to Bahrain, of an Italian, whom British officials instruct should not be allowed to land at Bahrain. The principal correspondents are: the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman), the Chief...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Aug 1940-10 Sep 1940
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

540. IOR/R/15/2/700

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/700
Title:
‘File 28/14 War. Ship warrant scheme’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the implementation of a Ship’s Warrant Scheme by the Government of India, intended to restrict access to British port facilities during wartime to vessels that are either British, or belong to the British Commonwealth, the United Sta...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jul 1940-16 Aug 1941
Extent:
1 file (79 folios)