The file consists of a document which outlines the results of an inter-departmental conference held at the India Office in April 1919 to discuss the question of the disposal of surplus river craft in Mesopotamia which are no longer needed by the military.
This printed memorandum is a note that contains general information on the islands of Bahrain. The note is divided into the following sections: General, Government, Relations with Great Britain, Climate, Population, Religion, Industry, Oil, Communication, Passports, Travel facilities, Bank, Custo...
Further correspondence respecting consular jurisdiction in Persia, 1874-76
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This confidential file contains correspondence printed for the use of the Foreign Office in May 1876. The letters are sent and received between 28 November 1874 and 6 May 1876 by representatives of the Foreign Office and India Office who, asked to prepare a draft of an Order in Council on the ...
Printed confidential memorandum (B 160), written by Major Lindsay Sherwood Newmarch, Political Resident in Turkish Arabia, dated 18 December 1906. The memorandum addresses the associated risks and benefits to be incurred and gained from not being involved in the construction of the Baghdad railw...
This note gives a very short history of Kuwait in eight paragraphs. It provides brief details of the ruling Ibn Subah family [Āl Ṣabāḥ], including Mubarak Ibn Subah [Mubārak bin Ṣabāḥ], Jabir [Jābir bin Mubārak] and Salim [Sālim bin Mubārak], and their relations with the Britain, Ibn Saud [‘Abd a...
Keng Tung villages east of the Mekong and the Keng Tung frontier. Memorandum dealing with M Hanotaux's note of 23 September 1895 in which the French government dispute British claims to the east of the Mekong in virtue of Keng Tung villages on the east bank of the river and deny that Keng Tung territory extends to the Mekong. (Letter from Foreign Office dated 2 October 1895, HC 1016) [L/PS/3/348]) E Neel, 9 Oct 1895 [with note by J G Scott]
Supplementary Memorandum respecting British interests in the Persian Gulf. Foreign Office, Jan 1912
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This file contains a supplementary memorandum respecting British interests in the Persian Gulf. The memorandum consists of printed copies of correspondence between British officials regarding four different topics: I. The Arms Traffic (folios 1-7); II. Quarantine (folios 7-14); III. Questio...
This file contains the text of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude's proclamation in Baghdad on the occasion of the British occupation in March 1917. This proclamation was issued following the 'Fall of Baghdad', a decisive victory for the British during the Mesopotamian Campaign. Maud...
The item consists of: Extract from Lord Chelmsford (Frederick John Napier Thesiger)'s private letter of 18 October 1916: regarding the Government of India's existing responsibilities in relation to Mesopotamia; the likelihood of those responsibilities increasing; whether it might be possible to ...