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6281. IOR/L/PS/18/C143

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C143
Title:
Letter (Secret No. 27) from Austen Chamberlain to Charles Hardinge, Governor General of India in Council, with enclosures
Scope & Content:
The memorandum consists of a copy of a letter from Austen Chamberlain to the Governor General of India and its enclosures. The purpose of the letter being to forward recent discussion — within the British Government — concerning the defence of the oil fields and pipelines of the Anglo-Persian Oi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Dec 1915
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

6282. IOR/L/PS/18/C145

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C145
Title:
Political Situation in Persia, the North-West Frontier, Afghanistan, and Aden
Scope & Content:
The memorandum is divided up into four sections and a conclusion. The first (folios 125-130) provides an update on the political situation in Persia, and considers how advantageous/disadvantageous it is to British interests, with specific updates on the following places: Isfanhan [Eşfahān], Fars...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1916
Extent:

1 file (16 folios)

6283. IOR/L/PS/18/C149

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C149
Title:
'Persian Expenditure: the "half and half" arrangement'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum provides a brief outline of the development of the 'half and half arrangement'; the principle by which British expenditure in Persia was divided between the British (UK) and British Indian Exchequers. It notes situations where the question of this division has emerged between 1901...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1916
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

6284. IOR/L/PS/18/C150

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C150
Title:
Telegraph Lines in Eastern Persia
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a report, which is attributed to Hermann Anderson Haines, Secretary, Public Works Department, and which provides a brief account of a number of agreements reached between the Government of India and the Persian Government (and between the Government of India and HM Treasury...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jun 1916
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

6285. IOR/L/PS/18/C152

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C152
Title:
Quetta-Seistan Railway
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a report by the Secretary of State for India [Joseph Austen Chamberlain], which is addressed to the Prime Minister [Herbert Henry Asquith]. The report concerns a proposal, made by the Commander-in-Chief in India [Sir Beauchamp Duff], to extend the Quetta–Nushki railway to S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1916-4 Aug 1916
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

6286. IOR/L/PS/18/C153

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C153
Title:
Bunder Abbas – Kerman Railway
Scope & Content:
This memorandum, written by Lord Curzon [George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston], discusses a proposed Bunder Abbas–Kerman railway line. Curzon considers the possible diplomatic, commercial and strategic motives for constructing the railway line. Curzon argues that if the line h...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Aug 1916
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

6287. IOR/L/PS/18/C154

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C154
Title:
Persia: Memorandum Respecting the Revision of the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a Foreign Office memorandum (author unknown), followed by an annex written by Charles Murray Marling, British Minister at Tehran. The file concerns the revision of the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907. The convention divided Persia into three areas: a Russian sphere in the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Aug 1915
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

6288. IOR/L/PS/18/C155

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C155
Title:
Memorandum. Regarding our future relations with Persia, with special reference to the extension and maintenance of British influence, and to the system of British Consular representation in Southern Persia.
Scope & Content:
This memorandum, written by Lieutenant-Colonel William Frederick Travers O'Connor, concerns the new subdivision of Persia into two spheres of influence – Russian and British – with the present neutral zone falling into the British sphere. The memorandum considers what system of Consular or other...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Sep 1916
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

6289. IOR/L/PS/18/C156

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C156
Title:
'A collection of Conventions and Agreements relating to Telegraphs in Turkey in Asia, Persia, the Persian Gulf, and Mekran'
Scope & Content:
This file is comprised of copies of a series of agreements, engagements, and conventions concerning Britain and a number of related parties regarding the construction and/or extension of telegraph lines in Turkey, Persia, the Persian Gulf, and Mekran [Makran Coast] between 1853 and 1916. Related...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1916
Extent:

1 file (18 folios)

6290. IOR/L/PS/18/C158

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C158
Title:
Memorandum by the Chief of Imperial General Staff and a Minute by Edmund George Barrow and John Evelyn Shuckburgh, on the Situation in Southern Persia
Scope & Content:
This file concerns attacks made against the South Persian Rifles [South Persia Rifles] by members of Persian tribes at Kazerun and Dashtistan [Dashtestan] (also spelled as 'Dasht-i-Arjun' and 'Dashtarjin' in the file), and the possibility of sending troops from Bushire. The file consists of a m...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Dec 1916-27 Dec 1916
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

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