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31. IOR/L/PS/10/522

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/522
Title:
1914 5094 PARTS 1&2. TURCO-PERSIAN FRONTIER COMMISSION
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, from 1914 to 1918 relating to the delimitation of the Turco-Persian border. It contains two parts IOR/L/PS/10/522/1 and IOR/L/PS/10/522/2. The discussion relates to leave and leave allowances to civil officers and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1914-1917
Extent:
1 volume (196 folios)

32. IOR/L/PS/10/610

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/610
Title:
File 3300/1916 Pts 1-2 'Aden News Letter Jan. 1916 to Dec. 1917.'
Scope & Content:
The volume mostly contains copies of Weekly Letters and enclosures from the Political Resident at Aden, which were sent to the India Office for information. The volume consists of two parts: Part 1, dated 26 June 1916 to 19 January 1917, and Part 2, dated 22 December 1916 to 12 December 1918. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1918
Extent:
1 volume (484 folios)

33. IOR/L/PS/10/648

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/648
Title:
File 287/1917 ''Arabia: Deportation of undesirable Indians''
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly India Office minute papers and correspondence, relating to the deportation from the Hejaz of certain Indians for alleged anti-British and pro-Turkish activities (as part of the silk letters movement), and their internment in Malta. The file includes corresponde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Urdu
Date Range:
12 Dec 1916-14 Jun 1920
Extent:

1 volume (155 folios)

34. IOR/L/PS/10/657

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/657
Title:
File 756/1917 Pt 1 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 1 to 65’
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of individual copies of the Arab Bulletin numbers 1-65 produced by the Arab Bureau at the Savoy Hotel, Cairo. They deal with economic, military, and political matters in Turkey, the Middle East, Arabia, and elsewhere, which – in the opinion of British officials – affect the ‘...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1916-1917
Extent:
1 volume (616 folios)

35. IOR/L/PS/10/658

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/658
Title:
File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of individual copies of the Arab Bulletin produced by the Arab Bureau at the Savoy Hotel, Cairo numbers 66-114. These publications contain wartime, and post-war intelligence obtained by British sources. They deal with economic, military, and political matters in Turkey, the M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917-1920
Extent:
1 volume (411 folios)

36. IOR/L/PS/10/803

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/803
Title:
File 788/1919 Pt 1 ‘MESOPOTAMIA Disposal of River Craft E.T.S.N.Co. claim re “Khalifa”.’
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers on the petition of the ETSN Co [Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company Limited] for compensation, following the seizure of their stock of coal and the steamships Khalifah and Ishtar by Ottoman authorities in August and November 1914, and their subsequent capture a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1917-13 Dec 1920
Extent:
1 file (195 folios)

37. IOR/L/PS/18/B50

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B50
Title:
Persian Gulf. Limits of Turkish Jurisdiction on the Arabian Coast
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum, compiled on 22 October 1888 by E Neel at the Secret and Political Department of the India Office, is a note on the letter from the Foreign Office dated 11 October 1888, Home No. 906.The British Government only recognises the Turkish jurisdiction on the Arabian coast as f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Oct 1888
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

38. IOR/L/PS/18/B133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B133
Title:
Memorandum respecting Koweit
Scope & Content:
This is a confidential memorandum, printed for the use of the Foreign Office on 30 October 1901, and authored by Robert Venables Vernon Harcourt, dated 29 Oct 1901. The memorandum primarily focuses on the position of Koweit [Kuwait] in regards to Turkey (Ottoman Empire) from 1871 onwards. In the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Oct 1901
Extent:

1 file (11 folios)

39. IOR/L/PS/18/B233

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B233
Title:
'THE WAR WITH TURKEY. Memorandum by Political Department, India Office.'
Scope & Content:
Memorandum, written by Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel, dated 25 May 1916, examining the implications of war with Turkey on Great Britain particularly the importance to Germany of a Turco-Ottoman alliance and the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, and the corresponding importance of its dissolution to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1916
Extent:

4 folios

40. IOR/L/PS/18/B234

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B234
Title:
'THE WAR WITH TURKEY. Note by the Under Secretary, India Office.'
Scope & Content:
Note written by Sir Thomas William Holderness, Under Secretary of State, India Office, in response to Sir Arthur Hirtzel's memorandum on the war with Turkey (IOR/L/PS/18/B233). The note describes the recommendations of the Inter-Department Committee on Asiatic Turkey, which Sir Thomas Holderne...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jun 1916
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)