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This file contains a report on the Shaikhdom of Bakhah [Bukha] written by the Political Agent in Bahrain, Arnold Crawshaw Galloway. The report was written after Galloway and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, William Rupert Hay, had visited the area on 25 January 1947. It contains a brie...
This file contains copies of the 'Naval Periodical Summary - Persian Gulf' that was compiled by the Royal Navy Staff Officer (Intelligence) in the Persian Gulf. These summaries contain details of the movement of ships and individuals ('personalities') around the region's numerous ports. In addit...
This file consists of a copy of a letter that was sent from the Persian Gulf Residency in Bahrain to the Political Agencies in Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat. The letter explains that the High Commissioners in India and Pakistan had recently been directed to provide monthly intelligence summaries to ...
File 11/57 Political Situation in India & Pakistan
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This file contains a report entitled 'Events in India and Pakistan during December 1947' that was sent from the Persian Gulf Residency in Bahrain to the Political Agencies in Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat. The report is divided up as follows: A. Relations between the Two Dominions: Kashmir, Financ...
The file consists of a single demi-official letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Trenchard Craven William Fowle, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to the India Office, dated 5 February 1937, discussing the possibility of a commercial motor route from Kuwait to Haifa.
The Roads and Communications files of the Political Agency, Muscat mostly concern mail and telegraph services in Muscat and Gwadar. The files cover the following topics: a single letter discussing the possibility of a commercial motor route from Kuwait to Haifa, 1937 (IOR/R/15/6/402); the opera...
File 12/1 I CABLE & WIRELESS LTD: September 1935 - Oct 1941.
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The file concerns the operations of Cable and Wireless Limited at Muscat. The papers include: the introduction by the Company of a cable running direct from Karachi to Muscat, and from Muscat to Bushire, and the enlargement of the cable station at Muscat, 1935; the issuing of a licence to the C...
The file concerns the operations of Cable and Wireless Limited at Muscat. Correspondence on two separate topics has been merged in the file: (1) Correspondence concerning Abdul Jalil Zawawi, a Cable and Wireless probationer, who had run away from the Company's school in Karachi and gone to Laho...
The file concerns the operations of Cable and Wireless Limited at Muscat. The papers include: draft of a Wireless Telegraph and Telephone Licence between the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, and Cable and Wireless Limited; draft and agreed versions of the Muscat-Muttrah Telephone Licence between ...
MUSCAT. CONSULATE COMPOUND AND ADJACENT BUILDINGS.
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The plan shows the Muscat Political Agency and Consulate Compound and adjacent buildings, with the premises of Cable and Wireless Limited marked A, B, and C. Proposed additions to the Cable and Wireless premises marked C (existing building and proposed extension) are shown shaded and outlined in...
