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491. IOR/L/PS/10/475

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/475
Title:
File 3443/1914 Pt 4 'Persia: East Persia affairs; German agents'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence regarding the Persian Campaign of the First World War and the movements and activities of the Central Powers in Persia [Iran] between May and November 1916. The correspondence is particularly concerned with finding and capturing German, Ottoman and Austrian age...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
9 Feb 1916-20 Dec 1916
Extent:
1 volume (179 folios)

492. IOR/L/PS/10/530

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/530
Title:
File 74/1915 Pt 3 'German War: banking arrangements at Jeddah'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers - correspondence and India Office papers and internal notes - relating to banking arrangements at Jeddah. It includes papers relating to the following: The Basra branch of the Imperial Ottoman Bank applying for permission to do business with the Bank’s Jeddah Agency. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Feb 1915-3 Jul 1919
Extent:

1 volume (175 folios)

493. 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)

494. IOR/L/PS/10/464

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/464
Title:
File 3136/1914 Pt 4 ‘German War. Egyptian situation’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to Britain’s position in Egypt at the beginning of the First World War. The papers cover: behind-the-scenes diplomatic negotiations between British Government officials and Arab and Muslim representatives; reports of anti-British or Egyptian-nationalist propaganda, much of which ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1914-1915
Extent:

1 volume (368 folios)

495. IOR/L/PS/10/319B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/319B
Title:
File 4919/1912 Pt 2 Abu Musa Oxide Concession: SOS telegram informing Sir P Cox that FO wish to have the German files seized at Bushire
Scope & Content:
Secretary of State telegram (7 February 1916) informing Percy Zachariah Cox, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, that the Foreign Office would like the papers on the Abu Musa concession obtained from the German Consulate, Bushire.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 volume (5 folios)

496. IOR/L/PS/10/108

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/108
Title:
File 3414/1906 Pt 5 'Telegraphs:- N. Persia. Tehran-Khanikan line; Tehran-Shahrud line; I. E. Tel. Dept's undertakings in N. Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters and other papers, mainly between the UK Foreign Office Government of India officials, reporting on the proposed telegraph lines Tehran-Khanikin and Tehran-Shahrud. Also discussed is the Indo-European Telegraph Department's undertakings in Persia and German enquiries r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1911
Extent:
1 volume (211 folios)

497. IOR/L/PS/10/535

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/535
Title:
File 94/1915 Pt 5 ‘German War – Turkey; Turkish & Arab prisoners in India – Sayyid Talib, &c.’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to Ottoman government officials who were detained as prisoners of war by the British occupying force (Indian Expeditionary Force ‘D’) at Basra in late November 1914, and sent to India for the duration of the war. The majority of the papers concern two prisoners (Seyyid Talib Bey ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1920
Extent:

1 volume (223 folios)

498. IOR/L/PS/10/556

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/556
Title:
File 2249/1915 Pt 2 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia and Persia: oil; Sir J Cowan's deputation & Standard Oil Co.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to oil exploration and the acquisition of oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq] (and to a lesser degree, Persia [Iran]) by oil companies. The companies involved are: the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC); the Shell Transport Company (STC, also referred to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919-1921
Extent:

1 volume (294 folios)

499. IOR/L/PS/10/1001

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1001
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 12 'Persian Gulf; oil; Bahrain; acquisition of land on Sitrah Island and reservation of other land elsewhere'
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters, telegrams and memoranda relating to oil prospecting being undertaken in Bahrain by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (hereafter BAPCO) and the associated acquisition of land on Sitrah Island. Key topics discussed include the BAPCO plans for the development of an oil stor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933-1934
Extent:
1 file (95 folios)

500. IOR/L/PS/10/409

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/409
Title:
File 3615/1913 Pt 2-3 'Persian Gulf - Lease of Islands (& Muin ut Tujjar's Concession). Persian Gulf Islands as to occupation in case of war with Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 2 and 3 of the subject ‘Persian Gulf: Moin-ut-Tujjar’s concessions’. Part 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/409/1) concerns the lease of islands in the Persian Gulf and Part 3 (IOR/L/PS/10/409/2) concerns British occupation of the islands in the Persian Gulf in case of war with Persia. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1912-1918
Extent:
1 volume (186 folios)

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