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11. IOR/L/PS/12/801

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/801
Title:
Ext 1186/43 'Transmission of mail from Bahrain Petroleum Company, Bahrain Island, to its Head Office in New York'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers regarding the transmission of internal correspondence between Bahrain and New York by the Bahrain Petroleum Company. The file covers concerns that sensitive information is being sent openly and is therefore vulnerable to enemy interception, and suggestions that future tra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1942-17 Apr 1943
Extent:
1 file (15 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/12/3938

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3938
Title:
Coll 30/197 ‘Persian Gulf. Special War Measures – Allocation of war-time expenditure. Appt. of Political Officer on Trucial Coast & addtl staff in the Gulf. Inc. Censorship (staff) Arrangements’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to special measures, mainly consisting of the recruitment of extra staff, taken by British authorities in the Persian Gulf in the event of war and during the Second World War. These special measures included the appointment of a Political Officer for the Trucial...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1938-21 Mar 1949
Extent:
1 file (151 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/12/4505

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4505
Title:
Coll 44/26 ‘War. (Defense, Protective and other Measures) Censorship restrictions in the Persian Gulf.’
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to censorship restrictions on telegrams in the Persian Gulf, during the Second World War. The correspondence discusses: The Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein in the file) branch of Cable and Wireless receiving orders from Head Office not to send or accep...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Nov 1939-18 Jan 1944
Extent:

1 file (88 folios)

14. IOR/R/15/1/698

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/698
Title:
'C-85. 86/30 - I WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BETWEEN BAHRAIN AND SAUDI ARABIA'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence regarding applications from the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and California Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), represented primarily by Hamilton R Ballantyne and Max Weston Thornburg, for permission to install wireless apparatus and operate wireless te...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Nov 1938-6 Apr 1942
Extent:
1 volume (195 folios)

15. IOR/R/15/2/560

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/560
Title:
File 17/7 CENSORSHIP
Scope & Content:
The file discusses arrangements for the wartime censorship of telegrams and letters and customs checking of individuals’ baggage and personal belongings. Included in the file are official orders in Arabic, English and French relating to censorship rules; requests for letters in other languages t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
6 Apr 1943-2 Feb 1946
Extent:
1 file (54 folios)

16. IOR/R/15/2/709

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/709
Title:
‘File 28/18 Sabotage smuggling etc of mail’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and notes relating to the possible sabotage and smuggling of mail: a telegram from the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (SNOPG), dated 18 November 1940, reporting a suspected case of sabotage in which a leaking jar of acid was found in a mail bag (f 2); a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1940-22 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

17. IOR/R/15/2/936

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/936
Title:
File 4/15 Sale of the "al-Arab" in Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains three items of confidential correspondence (reference numbers 127/5/48; S.O. No.C/L-203; D.O.No.C/305-9A) between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bahrain; Cornelius James Pelly (Political Agent, Bahrain) and Charles Dalrymple Belgrave (Adviser to the Bahrain Governm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Nov 1948-7 Dec 1948
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

18. IOR/R/15/6/471

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/471
Title:
'War Censorship'
Scope & Content:
This volume pertains to the wartime censorship of communication to and from Muscat during the Second World War. In particular, the volume's papers contain instructions from the Government of India to the Political Agency in Muscat on the precise parameters of wartime censorship in multiple langua...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Aug 1939-8 May 1942
Extent:
1 volume (256 folios)