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401. IOR/L/PS/12/2191

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2191
Title:
Coll 7/23 'Afghanistan: sale of 5000 rifles with 3 million rounds of ammunition to the Afghan Government by the Government of India, 1935'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and minutes regarding requests by the Afghan Government for arms, ammunition and aircraft to be supplied by either the British or Indian Governments. The material predominantly consists of telegrams sent to the India Office by HM Minister at Kabul (William Kerr F...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1934-13 Jul 1938
Extent:
1 file (338 folios)

402. IOR/L/PS/12/2193

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2193
Title:
Coll 7/25 'Persia and Persian Gulf: proposed Anglo-Persian Convention'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding attempts to negotiate an Anglo-Persian arms convention, intended to regulate arms traffic in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence concerns the following: the changing patterns of arms traffic in the Persian Gulf; Persian attitudes to the Slave Traffic ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Dec 1933-4 Jan 1935
Extent:
1 file (58 folios)

403. IOR/L/PS/12/2195

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2195
Title:
Coll 7/27 'Muscat: supply of Vickers-Berthier Machine Rifle to Muscat State; supply of guns and ammunition to Sultan'
Scope & Content:
The file contains two folders of correspondence regarding requests for weapons and ammunition made by the Sultan of Muscat (Sa'īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa'īd) to the British and American Governments. The file includes dividers which give a list of correspondence references contained in each part by ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Apr 1933-30 Jan 1940
Extent:
1 file (113 folios)

404. IOR/L/PS/12/2198

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2198
Title:
Coll 7/29 'Persian Gulf: gun running into Persia; reconditioning of Persian patrol craft seized by HMG in 1941 during operations; postwar rehabilitation of Persian Navy'
Scope & Content:
Extensive correspondence regarding the trafficking of arms to Persia [Iran], the resumption of arms and (to a lesser extent) slave trafficking in the Gulf of Oman, and the reconstitution of the Persian Navy following the Second World War (1939-1945). The file opens with reports of arms being sm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Nov 1934-20 May 1947
Extent:
1 file (307 folios)

405. IOR/L/PS/12/2211

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2211
Title:
Coll 7/41 'Disposal of arms and ammunition stored in HM Consulates abroad'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence regarding the disposal of small arms and ammunition from the Consulate-General at Addis Ababa [Ādīs Ābeba]. The correspondents are the Foreign Office, the War Office, and the Acting Consul-General (Alexander Knox Helm). A list of the arms and ammunition can be found at folios 16-...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Oct 1937-28 Oct 1937
Extent:
1 file (16 folios)

406. IOR/L/PS/12/2212

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2212
Title:
Coll 7/42 'Persian Gulf: arms smuggling from Koweit [Kuwait] into Iraq'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence regarding allegations made by the Iraqi authorities that arms and ammunition are being smuggled into Iraq from Koweit [Kuwait]. The principal correspondents are: HM Ambassador at Baghdad (Archibald Clark Kerr, later Maurice Peterson); the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Tr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Dec 1936-23 Mar 1939
Extent:
1 file (117 folios)

407. IOR/L/PS/12/2221

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2221
Title:
Coll 7/50 'Supply of war material to Burma'
Scope & Content:
Copy telegram sent by HM Legation Rangoon [Yangon] to HM High Commissioner, New Delhi, regarding a meeting with the Burmese Minister for Foreign Affairs, and requests for military equipment to deal with possible communist insurrections.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Apr 1948-10 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

408. IOR/L/PS/12/3937

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3937
Title:
Coll 30/196 ‘Persian Gulf Defence. Muscat. War Subsidy’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the defence of Muscat. It includes papers regarding: the position of the Sultan of Muscat in the event of the outbreak of war (since he was an independent sovereign and therefore his state would not automatically be on the side of the British Empire in war)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1938-8 Mar 1951
Extent:
1 file (430 folios)

409. IOR/L/PS/18/B252

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B252
Title:
IMPERIAL WAR CONFERENCE. Memorandum on Import of Munitions of War from the Dominions to the Persian Gulf consequent on Demobilisation.
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Feb 1917
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

410. IOR/L/PS/20/289/A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/289/A
Title:
‘Masqat Arms Traffic. 1908–1909.’
Scope & Content:
Bound volume containing two secret reports, both authored by Colonel Wilfrid Malleson (referred to as Division of the Chief of the Staff in the first report, and Assistant Quarter Master General for Intelligence in the second), and both issued by the Division of the Chief of the Staff in 1909. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1909
Extent:
1 volume (60 folios)

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