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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/12/3709-3976

221. IOR/L/PS/12/3921

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3921
Title:
Coll 30/183 'Proposed visit to Persian Gulf by H.E. the Viceroy.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns a proposal by the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, that he make an official visit to the Arab shaikhdoms of the Persian Gulf: Muscat, Sharjah, Bahrain, and Kuwait are mentioned as likely destinations. Linlithgow requested permission for the visit from the Secretary of State for India,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jul 1939-25 Aug 1939
Extent:
1 file (27 folios)

222. IOR/L/PS/12/3922

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3922
Title:
Coll 30/184 'Bahrein: Council of Regency during Sheikh's absence from Bahrein.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns arrangements for the administration of Bahrain in the absence of the Ruler, Shaikh Sir Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah [Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah]. Correspondence from Charles Darymple Belgrave, the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, dated 1936, sets out the arrangements for the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 May 1936-17 Aug 1939
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

223. IOR/L/PS/12/3923

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3923
Title:
Coll 30/185 'OIL: Hasa Oil. Qn of a pre-emption agreement.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the question ('Qn' in the file title) of whether the British Government required a pre-emption agreement (to commandeer oil in case of national emergency) in the case of oil from Hasa. The file includes correspondence on the matter from the Political Resident in the Persian Gu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Nov 1938-29 Feb 1940
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

224. IOR/L/PS/12/3924

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3924
Title:
Coll 30/186 'Oil: Koweit Territorial Waters. Jurisdiction over the sub-soil beneath the sea. Off-Shore Oil in the Persian Gulf.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the interest of the Kuwait Oil Company in exploring for submarine oil deposits beyond the limits of Kuwait's territorial waters, and the issue of territorial waters in the Persian Gulf generally, in the light of the United States Government's proclamation of 1945 concerning the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1939-12 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (366 folios)

225. IOR/L/PS/12/3925

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3925
Title:
Coll 30/187 'Prize jurisdiction in the Persian Gulf States.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the application to the Persian Gulf of amended prize jurisdiction in the run-up to, and following the outbreak of, the Second World War. Prize law related to the capture of enemy ships and goods during wartime. The Prize Act, 1939 extended prize law to aircraft also. The paper...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jul 1939-21 Dec 1939
Extent:
1 file (107 folios)

226. IOR/L/PS/12/3926

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3926
Title:
Coll 30/188 'Kuwait: Mining for Sulphur by Kuwait Oil Coy.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns an agreement between the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Sir Ahmed al-Jabir as-Subah [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] and a new company, the Eastern Gulf Oil Company Limited (formed from American interests in the Kuwait Oil Company), to explore for deposits of sulphur in Kuwait. Sulphur was u...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1940-28 Jun 1945
Extent:
1 file (171 folios)

227. IOR/L/PS/12/3927

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3927
Title:
Coll 30/190 'Bahrein: Qn. of the institution of a Bahrein "Order".'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns two issues ('Qn.' stands for 'question' in the file title): (1) the award by Pope Pius XII of a papal decoration (the Grand Cross of the Order of St Sylvester) to Shaikh Sir Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa [Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah], Ruler of Bahrain; and (2) the decision of Shaikh ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
4 Mar 1940-26 May 1941
Extent:
1 file (39 folios)

228. IOR/L/PS/12/3928

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3928
Title:
Coll 30/191 ‘Persian Gulf. Defence of the Persian Gulf. Establishment of aircraft facilities at Socotra and Salalah (Muscat) and Assembly Port at Masira Bay.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to defence facilities in the Persian Gulf and on, or near, the Southern Arabian Coast. It includes papers relating to the following: The construction of a naval ammunition store on Jiddah Island (also spelled Jidda Island in the file), ne...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
30 Aug 1939-1 Nov 1946
Extent:
1 file (482 folios)

229. IOR/L/PS/12/3929

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3929
Title:
Coll 30/191(1) ‘Evacuation of Ras-al-Hadd by R.A.F. and dumping of ammunition into the sea’
Scope & Content:
The file consists of papers (correspondence, mostly by telegraph, and ‘Extract from the Muscat Intelligence Summary No. 8 April 16th-30th.’) relating to the disbandment of the Royal Air Force unit at Ras al Hadd, in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman (and the transfer of personnel, stores and equi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Mar 1946-23 May 1946
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

230. IOR/L/PS/12/3930

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3930
Title:
Coll 30/192(1) ‘Persian Gulf. Defence BAHRAIN.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to the defence of Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein in the file), including the supply of guns to the Government of Bahrain, and anti-aircraft defences. The main correspondents are as follows: the India Office; the Political Agent at Bahrai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jul 1938-30 Sep 1942
Extent:

1 file (162 folios)