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1. IOR/L/PS/10/133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/133
Title:
File 345/1908 Pt 2 'Mohammerah: situation. Sheikh's dispute with the Vali of Basra. decoration for Sheikh. renewed assurances to Sheikh.'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence including telegrams, hand written letters and printed enclosures, discusses an attack by a Turkish gun-boat on a village - Zain, belonging to the Shaikh of Mohammerah - which lay on the Turkish bank of the Shatt al-Arab waterway. The correspondence outlines the circumstances that ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910-1915
Extent:
1 volume (281 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/162

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/162
Title:
File 757/1909 'Persian Gulf:- Turkey and Turkish aggression (Occupation of Zakhnuniyeh Island. Attitude in piracy cases. Mudirs at Zubara, Odaid and Wakra) British Relations with Turkey in Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the Turkish occupation of Zakhnuniyah Island, the Ottoman attitude towards piracy cases, and the appointment of officials in Zubara, Odeid and Wakra. The discussion in the volume relates to the Turkish...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909-1911
Extent:
1 volume (245 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/237

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/237
Title:
File 868/1912 Pt 3 'Arms traffic: arrangements at Muscat for its regulation'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, printed reports and two press-cuttings relating to the arms traffic in Muscat and arrangements for its regulation. Issues discussed include: French proposals regarding the suspension of the Sultan of Muscat's regulat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912
Extent:
1 volume (160 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/305

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/305
Title:
File 4259/1912 'Persian Gulf: Turks and lighting and buoying'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to lighting and buoying installed by the Turkish Government in the Persian Gulf. Correspondence discusses concerns over the erection of a Turkish lighthouse in Fao and the basis upon which a protest could...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1914
Extent:
1 volume (119 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/547

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/547
Title:
File 1093/1915 ‘Basra & Mohammerah Consulates’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two parts. Part 1 contains correspondence and papers relating to appointments made at the British Consulate at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] (ff 5-74). Part 2 contains correspondence and papers concerning the re-opening and associated costs of a British Consulate at Basra (ff 76...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1929
Extent:
1 volume (242 folios)