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151. IOR/L/PS/12/376

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/376
Title:
PZ 2540/40 'Censorship: connivance at use of cypher in messages to and from Ibn Saud and the two Amirs'
Scope & Content:
This file contains two telegrams about the use of cypher in messages between Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Political Resident, Bushire.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1940-16 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

152. IOR/L/PS/12/378

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/378
Title:
PZ 2749/40 'Persia: Sardar Muhammed Amir Khan Nauroi'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a letter from HM Consul General in Khorasan, Meshed (Giles Frederick Squire) to the Secretary of the Government of India External Affairs Department. The letter discusses and includes a report from HM Vice Consul, Zabul concerning his meeting with the Sarder [Sardir] Muhammad A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Apr 1940-15 Aug 1940
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

153. IOR/L/PS/12/379

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/379
Title:
PZ 2865/40 'Note on the India Office and the Persian Gulf areas'
Scope & Content:
The file details the Government of India’s financial and administrative responsibilities towards the Persian Gulf. The text is divided into sections: ‘Iran’ (folio 2), ‘Persian Gulf’ (folios 2 to 3), ‘The Air Route’ (folio 3), ‘Oil’ (folios 3 to 4) and ‘Defence Measures’ (folios 3 to 5). The p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

154. IOR/L/PS/12/380A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/380A
Title:
PZ 287/40 'Deportation from Persia into British Indian territory'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the deportation of three Polish men (Oligierd Stolyho, Adam Backer and Josef Bekerman), one Lithuanian man (Bronistew Bogussewier), one Ukrainian man (Iwan Basileffsk) and one Russian woman (Tatiana Chinnova) from the Persian Border to British Indian te...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 May 1940-30 Jul 1940
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

155. IOR/L/PS/12/380B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/380B
Title:
PZ 2885/40 'Proposed trade mission to Persia'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a decipher telegram from the Government of India, External Affairs Department, to the Secretary of State for India regarding trade opportunities and the desirability of a war trade agreement with Iran. The telegram also refers to concerns over Iranian exports to Germany, and tr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (1 folio)

156. IOR/L/PS/12/383

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/383
Title:
PZ 3044/40(1) ‘OIL – Persian Gulf. Bahrein. Personnel of Bahrein Petroleum Coy., (Roster of Employees Sept: 39/Dec:1940.)’
Scope & Content:
The file mainly consists of copies of the Roster of Employees of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (also spelled Bahrein Petroleum Company in the file) (sent to the India Office by the Political Agent, Bahrain), as of 30 September 1939, 31 December 1939, 31 March 1940, 30 June 1940, 30 Septe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Nov 1939-15 May 1941
Extent:

1 file (754 folios)

157. IOR/L/PS/12/384

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/384
Title:
PZ 3044/40(2) 'Oil. Persian Gulf. Bahrein. Personnel of Bahrein Petroleum Co. Roster of Employees 1941-'
Scope & Content:
This file mainly consists of copies of quarterly rosters (or summaries of rosters) of employees of the Bahrein [Bahrain] Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) for the period March 1941-December 1947, distributed by the Political Agent, Bahrain. Complete copies of the rosters are present for the foll...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Apr 1941-14 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (991 folios)

158. IOR/L/PS/12/385

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/385
Title:
PZ 3054/40 'Journey of son and two grandsons of Sultan of Lahej to Aden from Egypt via Transjordan'
Scope & Content:
This document is a cypher telegram sent from the High Commissioner for Trans-Jordan [Emirate of Transjordan] to the Secretary of State for the Colonies relating to the potential passage of a son and two grandsons of the Sultan of Lahej through Transjordan on their way from Egypt to Aden.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 May 1940-1 Jun 1940
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

159. IOR/L/PS/12/386

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/386
Title:
PZ 3077/40 'Arabia: note on present position of the Ikhwan movement'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a note sent from Sir Hugh Stonehewer Bird, HM Minister at Jedda, to Viscount Halifax, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The subject of the note is a discussion of the current status and situation of the Ikhwan movement.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 May 1940-6 Jun 1940
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

160. IOR/L/PS/12/391

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/391
Title:
PZ 3220/40 'Detention by Persian authorities of Mirza Barkatali Ahmadi, British Indian subject'
Scope & Content:
This file contains documents relating to the detention of Mirza Barkatali Ali Ahmadi, a British Indian subject from the SS Varsova, for his alleged failure to settle a debt with Yusuf Ali, a naturalised Persian subject and merchant in Abadan, Iran. The charges against Mirza Barkatali Ali Ahmadi ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Farsi
Date Range:
18 May 1940-22 Jun 1940
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)