The file consists of two notes by members of the Council of India, William Lee-Warner and Hugh Shakespear Barnes, on the Government of India's Letter No 119 dated 9 August 1906 (L/PS/10/74: Pol No 1455/06), concerning policy in Aden. William Lee-Warner's note opposes the Government of India's p...
This printed memorandum, dated 25 October 1918, is a note by the India Office concerning a War Office memorandum of 21 October 1918 (E.C. 2042). It concerns political service in the Middle East in the context of the First World War and defines responsibility for the administration of Mesopotamia...
A Memorandum on the Possible Occupation by France of Sheikh Said
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A memorandum written by Edmund Neel, Political and Secret Department, India Office, and an addendum, in which is discussed the possibility of a French occupation of Turkish-held Sheikh Said [Ra’s Shaykh Sa‘īd], on the south-western tip of the Arabian Peninsula. A sketch map (f 7) accompanies a r...
Report written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary in the Political Secret Department of the India Office, and dated 14 February 1877. The report, which deals with the question of British consular jurisdiction in Persia and the Persian Gulf, was written in order to close a matter th...
This handwritten memorandum concerns the Debai [Dubai] Incident of 1910-1911. The memorandum gives a background on British treaty relations with the Sheikh Buṭtī bin Suhayl Āl Maktum of Dubai, the arms blockade on the Trucial coast, and a narrative of the incident that occurred on 24 December 191...
This is a secret printed memorandum by the Political Department of the India Office, dated 25 June 1935, concerning the Persian Gulf. The memorandum is divided in nine numbered sections, which include: 'Procedure for dealing with Persian Gulf Questions', 'British Relations with Persian Gulf Stat...
This file is a report regarding arms traffic in the Persian Gulf written by John Evelyn Shuckburgh of the India Office's Political Department. The main body of the report (ff 30-51) is divided up as follows: I. Summary of Early History; II. The Situation in 1907; III. Events in 1907-09; IV. ...
This printed memorandum deals with the question of the political and financial obligations that the British Government should in future incur in relation to Arabia, in view of the forthcoming negotiations in Paris between Britain, France and the other allied powers on the subject of Arabia [the ...
IMPERIAL WAR CONFERENCE. Memorandum on Import of Munitions of War from the Dominions to the Persian Gulf consequent on Demobilisation.
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Memorandum, written by the India Office, regarding the sale of rifles by the Australian and New Zealand Governments to India, and a large quantity of Australian ammunition which had been shipped to Muscat.
Middle East Committee. Report of Mesopotamia Trade Commissioners (Messrs. R E Holland and J H Wilson)
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This printed note is the summary of recommendations to the Report of Mesopotamia Trade Commissioners, Robert Erskine Holland and John Henry Wilson. These recommendations start from the premise that German commercial competition in the Persian Gulf was ultimately aimed at controlling the railway ...