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151. IOR/L/PS/18/B341

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B341
Title:
Mesopotamia and Middle East: Question of Future Control
Scope & Content:
This is a secret printed memorandum, dated 1 June 1920, with an introductory note, dated 2 June 1920, by the Edwin Samuel Montagu (initialled E S M), Secretary of State for India. It concerns the question of future British control in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and Middle East. The memorandum discusses th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1920
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

152. IOR/L/PS/18/C37

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C37
Title:
'Karun River: Note by Sir O St John'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum — written by Sir Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St John — offers a differing opinion to that offered by Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson (see IOR/L/PS/18/C35) and Walter Baring (see IOR/L/PS/18/C36) on the Karun [Kārūn] River project. It argues that both have overestimated the difficultly...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Oct 1882
Extent:

2 folios

153. IOR/L/PS/18/C215

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C215
Title:
'No. 1. Memorandum: Relations between Persia and Iraq'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum is concerned with a recent deterioration in diplomatic relations between Iraq and Persia; particular focus is given to the following issues: Persia's refusal to officially recognise Iraq; Persia's desire for judicial privileges for its subjects within Iraq; border disputes between...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jun 1928
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

154. IOR/L/PS/18/B155

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B155
Title:
Relations of the British Government with the Tribes of the Aden Hinterland
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum detailing the relations of the British Government with the tribes of the Aden hinterland by Richmond Thackeray Willoughby Ritchie, India Office, Secretary to the Political and Secret Department. It discusses the following: boundary lines, difficulties with the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Mar 1906
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

155. IOR/L/PS/18/B187a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B187a
Title:
Second Memorandum on the Lighting and Buoyage of the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
This file is a memorandum written by John Edward Ferard of the India Office's Political Department regarding the development and improvement of lighting and buoyage facilities in the Persian Gulf (including the installation of lighthouses, lighted buoys and dioptric lanterns). The memorandum i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Nov 1912
Extent:

2 folios

156. IOR/L/PS/18/B284

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B284
Title:
Eastern Committee. The future of Mesopotamia. (Note by Sir Percy Cox.)
Scope & Content:
This note was written by Major-General Percy Zachariah Cox in April 1918 in his capacity as Civil Commissioner, Baghdad. It consists of two main parts. The first part deals with the premises for British policy, namely, the proclamation issued on British arrival in Baghdad, that they had come to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Apr 1918
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

157. IOR/L/PS/18/C208

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C208
Title:
Persian Baluchistan (including the Sarhad and Persian Mekran) The Quetta-Nushki extension railway
Scope & Content:
The memorandum is concerned with Persian Baluchistan, specifically focusing on Mekran [Makran] and Sarhad, which are regarded as being of particular geopolitical interest to Britain's Indian Empire. It includes a brief description of these regions, outlines local British activities during the Fi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 May 1922
Extent:

1 file (17 folios)

158. IOR/L/PS/18/B268

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B268
Title:
Employment of Japanese Troops in Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum addressed to the War Cabinet by the Political Department of the India Office on the question of the employment of Japanese troops in Mesopotamia. It summarises the Government of India's views given in a telegram dated 21 November 1917, with military and politica...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Dec 1917-18 Dec 1917
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

159. IOR/L/PS/18/B391

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B391
Title:
‘British political relations with Koweit.’
Scope & Content:
The memorandum, prepared by John W Field of the Foreign Office and dated 29 March 1922, is an historical overview of relations between the British Government and the Shaikh of Kuwait during the period 1897 to 1921. The first paragraph of the memorandum suggests that it was compiled in response to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Mar 1922
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

160. IOR/L/PS/18/B458

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B458
Title:
DUBAI OIL CONCESSION AND CONNECTED DOCUMENTS
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum reproducing a commercial agreement between Petroleum Concessions Limited and the Shaikh of Dubai, in which rights are granted to the former to prospect for oil in the State of Dubai. The memorandum also reproduces a political agreement between the British Governm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Feb 1937-6 Oct 1937
Extent:

10 folios