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5971. IOR/L/PS/18/B213

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B213
Title:
‘Notes and private telegram from the Viceroy regarding the future settlement of Eastern Turkey in Asia and Arabia.’
Scope & Content:
The papers comprise as follows: A note by Sir (Frederic) Arthur Hirtzel, Secretary, Political and Secret Department, India Office, dated 14 March 1915, indicating factors to be considered in ensuring Basra’s future immunity from Turkish authority, organised under a number of subheadings: geograp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 file (10 folios)

5972. IOR/L/PS/18/B214

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B214
Title:
‘Report of the Mesopotamian Railways Committee.’
Scope & Content:
Foreign Office report, marked Secret and dated 24 July 1909, authored by R P Maxwell, R Ritchie, George J Stanley, W Tyrrell, Percy Ashley and R C Lindsay of the Mesopotamia Railways Committee. The report concerns the options being considered by Government for the concession of the Bagdad [Baghd...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jul 1909
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

5973. IOR/L/PS/18/B215

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B215
Title:
Sherif of Mecca.
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a confidential printed report entitled 'Sherif of Mecca'. The report contains transcriptions of correspondence, a statement by a messenger (described below), and notes relating to Sherif Hosayn, the Sherif [Shereef] of Mecca [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī], particularly in terms of his re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

5974. IOR/L/PS/18/B216

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B216
Title:
British Policy in the Yemen
Scope & Content:
The file contains an introduction by Major-General Sir George John Younghusband, Political Resident, Aden, introducing two memoranda written by Lieutenant Harold Fenton Jacob, First Assistant Resident, Aden. They are addressed to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Political Department, i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
09 Sep 1915
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

5975. IOR/L/PS/18/B217

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B217
Title:
‘Policy in the Middle East. I. Memorandum by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Mark Sykes.’
Scope & Content:
Secret memorandum, prepared by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Mark Sykes. The report is preceded by a letter from Sykes to Major-General Charles Edward Callwell, Director of Military Operations, War Office, London, dated 15 November 1915, which includes Sykes’s opinion on the occupation of Ahwaz, and an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 file (7 folios)

5976. IOR/L/PS/18/B218

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B218
Title:
‘Policy in the Middle East. II. Select Reports and Telegrams from Sir Mark Sykes.’
Scope & Content:
Secret report on British policy in the Middle East, divided into two sections (reports and telegrams) sent by Sir Mark Sykes during 1915, while on his tour of the Middle East, on behalf of the de Bunsen Committee. Report no. 4 (Secret), dated 12 June 1915 from Athens, reporting on an interview h...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 file (9 folios)

5977. IOR/L/PS/18/B219

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B219
Title:
‘Policy in the Middle East. III. The Arab Movement.’
Scope & Content:
Printed copy of a secret memorandum, dated 1915; a report by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Mark Sykes, which is an overview of the human, religious and political dimensions of the Arab population in the Middle East. The report is divided into four sections, based on the four groups of Arab people ident...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

5978. IOR/L/PS/18/B220

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B220
Title:
‘Advance to Baghdad – Political Considerations. Note by Political Department, India Office.’
Scope & Content:
Note written by John Evelyn Shuckburgh, Assistant Secretary of the Political Department, India Office, on the political and strategic importance that would be associated with British forces taking Baghdad, and the likely political and strategic injury that the British would incur should they fai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Oct 1915
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

5979. IOR/L/PS/18/B221

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B221
Title:
'Germany and the Middle East'
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum, by Joseph Austen Chamberlain, contains a report of a lecture 'Germany and the Middle East', by Dr Paul Rohrbach given at the Hamberg Volksheim which was printed in Hamburger Fremdenblatt, 3 December 1915. The report discusses Rohrbach's opinions on the current situatio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1915
Extent:

1 folio

5980. IOR/L/PS/18/B222

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B222
Title:
Correspondence with the Grand Sherif of Mecca
Scope & Content:
This secret file is a collection of printed correspondence. It contains telegrams between Joshua Milne Crompton Cheetham, Acting High Commissioner at Cairo, and the Foreign Office, letters from and correspondence between Shaikh Abdalla Ibn Hosayn [Abd Allāh ibn al-Husayn] and his father, Hussein...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1914-10 Mar 1916
Extent:

1 file (8 folios)

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