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2861. IOR/L/PS/10/113

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/113
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 4 'Arms Traffic: Persian Gulf - Blockade (correspondence 1909-1911).'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence regarding the decision by British authorities to establish a naval blockade along the Mekran coast in 1909, with the aim of suppressing arms trafficking in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence discusses the cost of a naval blockade, the availability of naval ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1909-1 Dec 1911
Extent:
1 volume (378 folios)

2862. IOR/L/PS/10/114

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/114
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 5 'Arms Traffic:- Persian Gulf - Blockade (correspondence 1912-1920).'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the ongoing naval blockade in the Persian Gulf to suppress arms trafficking. The blockade continued through 1912 and 1913 before being ended in 1914. The volume also includes correspondence between representatives of the India Office, the Admiralty, and the Government of In...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1912-15 Feb 1921
Extent:
1 volume (301 folios)

2863. IOR/L/PS/10/115

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/115
Title:
File 619/1907 Pts 6-9 'Arms traffic:- Trucial Chief's. Debai Incident. French Dhows. Military Operations.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises parts 6, 7, 8 and 9 of subject 619 Arms Traffic. The parts discuss actions taken in the Persian Gulf to suppress the illegal movement of arms and ammunition: Part 6: Searching of vessels in territorial waters of Trucial Chiefs; Position of Katr [Qatar]; Part 7: Debai [Dubai]...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Sep 1910-15 Apr 1913
Extent:
1 volume (294 folios)

2864. IOR/L/PS/10/115/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/115/1
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 6 'Arms traffic:- Persian Gulf - Searching of vessels in territorial waters of Trucial Chiefs. Position of Katr [Qatar].'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence, which is primarily between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Percy Zachariah Cox), the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India (Spencer Harcourt Butler), the Naval Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies Station (Edmond John Warre Slade), and representatives of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Sep 1910-15 Apr 1913
Extent:
1 volume (61 folios)

2865. IOR/L/PS/10/115/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/115/2
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 7 'Arms traffic: Persian Gulf. Debai incident.'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence discusses an incident at Debai [Dubai] on 24 December 1910 in which a landing party from HMS Hyacinth entered Debai to search a house for illegally trafficked arms and came under fire from local residents. The correspondence includes detailed accounts of the incident by Brit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Sep 1910-21 Feb 1911
Extent:
1 item (70 folios)

2866. IOR/L/PS/10/115/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/115/3
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 8 'Arms traffic:- Persian Gulf - Seizure of French dhows "Musafa" and "Fath-el-Khair".'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence relates to complaints made by Abraham Elbaz (agent for Antoine Goguyer, a French arms merchant at Muscat) that his dhow Fath-el-Khair was being interfered with by HM's vessels causing him to suffer substantial financial losses. The correspondence also discusses negotiations t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Jan 1911-4 Aug 1911
Extent:
1 volume (109 folios)

2867. IOR/L/PS/10/115/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/115/4
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 9 'Arms traffic:- Persian Gulf:- Military operations.'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence discusses military operations which took place on the Mekran [Makran] and Shibkah coasts to suppress the illicit trafficking of arms there. The operations included naval vessels landing troops who were instructed to cut off raiding parties who had succeeded in illegally land...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Mar 1911-13 Jun 1911
Extent:
1 volume (46 folios)

2868. IOR/L/PS/10/116

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/116
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 10 'Arms traffic:- Persian Gulf. Prize Money for captures in Persian Gulf.'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence discusses the award of prize money to the officers and crews of British Naval vessels that had seized dhows containing arms and ammunition in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence discusses the values to be assigned to different types of arms and ammunition, and the decision b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Apr 1908-24 Sep 1915
Extent:
1 volume (210 folios)

2869. IOR/L/PS/10/117

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/117
Title:
File 636/1907 'Turkish Arabia: Bagdad Consulate. Mr Gaskin (Commercial Asst). Detention by Turkish authorities (1914-1918). Settlement of accounts.'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence discusses the appointment of John Calcott Gaskin as Commercial Assistant to the British Consul at Bagdad in 1906, and the decision for his salary to be paid jointly by the British Government Treasury and the Government of India. Following the outbreak of The First World War t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1904-28 Mar 1929
Extent:
1 volume (300 folios)

2870. IOR/L/PS/10/118

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/118
Title:
File 1265/1907 ‘Persian Gulf:- Wireless Stations'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and notes by British officials about proposals for the establishment of wireless telegraph stations in the Persian Gulf at Bahrain, Bushire, Debai [Dubai] and Zora near Ajman instead of Kuwait. The main correspondents are the following: ministers and senior off...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904-1912
Extent:
1 volume (213 folios)

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