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1. IOR/L/PS/12/1453

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1453
Title:
Coll 1/17 'Aden Defence Scheme: authority by whom regulations governing food control, censorship, etc, should be issued'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and notes regarding the development of the draft Aden Defence Scheme, and the authority under which the Resident (later Chief Commissioner) of Aden was able to exercise emergency powers, for example relating to censorship, arrest, and control of economic security...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jun 1932-18 Jan 1936
Extent:
1 file (120 folios)

2. 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)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/3949

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3949
Title:
Coll 30/209 'Oil: Protection & destruction of oil installations in the Middle East. Oil Denial Scheme.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns British Government measures to implement an oil denial scheme in the Persian Gulf, by asking oil companies operating in the region to temporarily plug, or permanently destroy existing oil wells, thus denying oil resources to the enemy [during the Second World War]. The oil well...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1942-15 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (182 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/707

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/707
Title:
File 79/44 I (S 80) War Emergency Legislation
Scope & Content:
The file deals with the issue of the supplementary judicial powers that would be required by the British administration in the Persian Gulf in the event of war, and includes the following papers: papers dated October 1937 - July 1938 concerning the question of war emergency legislation in the Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Oct 1937-31 May 1939
Extent:
1 volume (218 folios)