Sketch map showing Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] and its surrounding district. The map features coloured lines showing the proposed location of the Turco-Persian frontier at Mohammerah. The proposed Turkish line is marked in yellow; the proposed Persian line is marked in green; and the line propose...
Part 4 contains minutes and correspondence regarding the telegraph lines in Persia, including the planned cession to Russia of the line Tehran - Khanikin [Khanaqin, Iraq], and the disposal of the same line between Kerind [Kūh Kerind, Iran] and Khanaqin. The principal correspondents are the Pers...
Persia: supply of dynamite, etc to the Persian Government
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The file contains correspondence relating to a request from the Persian Government for supplies of dynamite. The request is passed from the Iranian Consul-General to the Government of India, Department of Supply, who refer the matter to the Foreign Office out of concern for what they feel is an '...
The file contains correspondence and telegrams from the Government of India, External Affairs, and Defence Departments; the India Office Economic and Overseas Department; the Secretary of State for India; and Texas Oil Company Ltd, regarding the delivery of calcium chloride, emery cloth, glass p...
Coll 5/86 ‘Afghanistan: Reorganisation of Air Force’
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The file is concerned with a report produced by Colonel Alexander Stalker Lancaster, Military Attaché at Kabul, on the current state of the Afghan Air Force and proposals for its reorganisation and improvement: see folios 31-52 for a copy of this report. The report includes a sketch map (folio 4...
Coll 28/54 ‘Persia. Perso-Polish and Perso-Japanese Relations.’
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Correspondence and other papers relating to diplomatic and commercial relations between Persia [Iran] and Poland, and Persia and Japan. The file includes: a copy (in French) of a Treaty of Friendship and Commercial Convention, signed between Persia and Poland in 1927; correspondence (some in Fre...
Coll 30/77 'Koweit: Persian interference with Koweiti dhows.'
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The file concerns reports of interference with Kuwaiti dhows by Iranian (also referred to as Persian) customs and naval authorities. The papers contain witness statements, letters of protest by the Shaikh of Koweit [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, Ruler of Kuwait], reports, discussion of the incidents ...
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to the defence of Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein in the file), including the supply of guns to the Government of Bahrain, and anti-aircraft defences. The main correspondents are as follows: the India Office; the Political Agent at Bahrai...
Arabia. Question of Future Policy, Subsidies to Chiefs, &c
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This printed report consists of two notes prepared by Richard Marrs and John Evelyn Shuckburgh of the Political Department of the India Office on 19 October 1920 and 29 October 1920 respectively. These notes concern British policy, including the payment of subsidies and grants-in-aid, towards po...
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 90 of 1869, dated 17 March 1869, with an abstract and enclosures numbered 3-4, dated 17 February-8 March 1869. The enclosures consist of: A letter from the Secretary to the Government of Bombay to ...