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231. IOR/L/PS/10/456

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/456
Title:
File 2830/1914 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: Sponge Fisheries. Sponge Exploration Syndicate.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the attempts of a British company called the Sponge Exploration Syndicate to obtain concessions for the fishing and exploitation of sponges in the Persian Gulf. However, the papers indicate that it was felt by British officials that the real object of the company was to explo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 May 1905-11 Dec 1916
Extent:
1 volume (240 folios)

232. IOR/L/PS/10/457

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/457
Title:
File 2830/1914 Pt 2 'Persian Gulf: Pearl Fisheries. Investigation into Alleged Depletion of Pearl Banks. Germans and the Industry. Concessions, etc.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns pearl fishing in the Persian Gulf; in particular attempted incursions into the trade by the French, Germans, and others; the political and economic interests of the British in pearl fishing; investigations into reports of the depletion of the pearl fishing banks in the Gulf; ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1902-28 July 1914
Extent:
1 volume (283 folios)

233. IOR/L/PS/10/458

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/458
Title:
File 2877/1914 'Persian Gulf and Mesopotamia: survey operations of RIMS Palinurus'
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911-1916
Extent:
1 volume (254 folios)

234. IOR/L/PS/10/462

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/462
Title:
File 3136/1914 Pt 1 ‘German War. Situation in Turkish Arabia & Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning diplomatic tensions between the British and Ottoman Governments at the outset of the First World War, including social unrest and military/naval movements in Baghdad, Basra, and the Shatt al-Arab. The volume’s papers were produced prior to the Ottoman Ruler Sultan Mehmed V’s de...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1914-25 Oct 1914
Extent:
1 volume (332 folios)

235. IOR/L/PS/10/463

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/463
Title:
File 3136/1914 Pt 2 ‘German War. Situation in Turkish Arabia & Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning events in Mesopotamia and in the Persian Gulf, leading up to and immediately after the outbreak of war between Great Britain and Turkey. The file is a chronological continuation of File 3136/1914 Pt 1 ‘German War. Situation in Turkish Arabia & Persian Gulf’ (IOR/L/PS/10/462...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 Oct 1914-8 Dec 1914
Extent:
1 volume (248 folios)

236. IOR/L/PS/10/464

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/464
Title:
File 3136/1914 Pt 4 ‘German War. Egyptian situation’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to Britain’s position in Egypt at the beginning of the First World War. The papers cover: behind-the-scenes diplomatic negotiations between British Government officials and Arab and Muslim representatives; reports of anti-British or Egyptian-nationalist propaganda, much of which ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1914-1915
Extent:

1 volume (368 folios)

237. IOR/L/PS/10/465

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/465
Title:
File 3136/1914 Pt 5 ‘German War. Turkey. Hodeida consuls incident’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to the incarceration by Turkish authorities of the British Vice-Consul at Hodeida (also spelt Hodeidah) [Al-Ḥudaydah], George Alexander Richardson, Richardson’s wife, Mary Richardson, and the French Vice-Consul at Hodeida, Monsieur Roux, in the wake of the destruction of a Turkis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Nov 1914-16 Apr 1917
Extent:

1 volume (164 folios)

238. IOR/L/PS/10/466

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/466
Title:
File 3136/1914 Pt 6 ‘German War. Turkey. Jeddah. Food Supplies’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning the impact of war between Britain and Turkey upon shipping, food supplies and travellers on Hajj pilgrimage, along the Red Sea coast of Arabia (including the Hedjaz [Hejaz] and Yemen), and the wider Arab region. Subjects covered include: Reports of food shortages in the Hedjaz ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
5 Dec 1914-11 Jun 1916
Extent:

1 volume (226 folios)

239. IOR/L/PS/10/467

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/467
Title:
File 3136/1914 Pt 7 ‘German War. Turkey. Situation in Egypt &c.’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning Britain’s declaration of Egypt as a British Protectorate in November 1914. The volume includes: Correspondence relating to Britain’s annexation of Cyprus in November 1914, and the status of Cypriots and Egyptians in Cyprus as British subjects (ff 120-125). Papers concerning the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
9 Nov 1914-30 Mar 1918
Extent:

1 volume (124 folios)

240. IOR/L/PS/10/472

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/472
Title:
File 3443/1914 Pt 1 'German War: Turkish and German intrigues in India'
Scope & Content:
Thevolume contains correspondence regarding the movements and activities ofPan-Islamic activists in India, Afghanistan and North Africa during the firstyear of the First World War. The correspondence is particularly concerned withpossible German and Ottoman support for the activists in carrying ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
30 Jun 1914-3 Jul 1915
Extent:
1 volume (175 folios)