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241. IOR/L/PS/12/3898

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3898
Title:
Coll 30/160(3) 'Measures to influence Persia in time of war. Question of supply of railway material to Persia.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the supply by the Government of India of railway material to the Government of Iran. The supply of such material was seen by the British Government as a means of influencing certain minor powers in the Middle East in favour of the British on the outbreak of war [the Second Worl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1939-10 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

242. IOR/L/PS/12/3892

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3892
Title:
Coll 30/157 'Bahrein: Medical Officer to Bahrein Govt. Bahrain Govt. Hospital, and recruitment of European Nurses.'
Scope & Content:
The file covers the recruitment of a Medical Officer by the Government of Bahrain in 1938, and the recruitment of nurses in the United Kingdom: applications, references, and travel expenses, 1941-48. The file includes correspondence with Charles Dalrymple Belgrave (Adviser to the Government of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Mar 1938-7 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (292 folios)

243. IOR/L/PS/12/3802

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3802
Title:
Coll 30/86(1) 'PERSIA. RELATIONS WITH IRAQ. SHATT-EL-ARAB: INTERNATIONALISATION OF, AND ESTABLISHMENT OF A CONSERVANCY BOARD.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the drafting of a convention to establish a Conservancy Board for the Shatt-el-Arab (also referred to as the Shatt-al-Arab). The papers include: negotiations with the governments of Iraq and Persia [Iran]; the involvement of British shipowners in discussions; numerous drafts o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 Jul 1932-10 Jan 1936
Extent:
1 volume (592 folios)

244. IOR/L/PS/12/3796

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3796
Title:
Coll 30/79 'Persian claim to 10 mile limit for Persian territorial waters.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the extent of territorial waters claimed by the Government of Persia (also referred to as Iran). The British Government held that in the absence of international agreement, three miles was the extent of territorial waters, but the Persian Government claimed distances of up to t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Jan 1929-3 Aug 1938
Extent:
1 file (229 folios)

245. IOR/L/PS/12/3843

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3843
Title:
Coll 30/114 'Proceedings of H.M. Ships.'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of extracts of reports on naval affairs and general intelligence in the Persian Gulf sent from the Admiralty to the India Office. The extracts were sent approximately every month and cover the whole of the period 1935-39. The extracts are drawn from reports of proceedings of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Feb 1935-10 Aug 1939
Extent:
1 file (600 folios)

246. IOR/L/PS/12/3819

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3819
Title:
Coll 30/100 'Bahrain. (Persian claim to,): Geneva Arms Traffic Convention of 1925:- Reservation of the United States Senate to its ratification'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the attaching of a reservation by the United States Senate to its ratification of the Geneva Arms Traffic Convention of 1925 [the Geneva Protocol]. The reservation stated that adherence to the treaty should not be construed as denying any right of sovereignty of the Government ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jun 1934-25 Jul 1935
Extent:
1 file (71 folios)

247. IOR/L/PS/12/3806A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3806A
Title:
Coll 30/87(2) Part I 'Qatar: Oil Concession.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the signing of the agreement between the British Government, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) (later the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company), and the Shaikh of Qatar, Abdullah bin Qasim al Thani [‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī] to award the company an exclusive oil concession in Qatar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Jan 1935-8 Nov 1944
Extent:

4 volumes (639 folios)

248. IOR/L/PS/12/3939

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3939
Title:
Coll 30/198 ‘Persian Gulf Defence : - ABADAN.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers mostly relating to the defence of Abadan (and to a lesser extent other areas of Persia [Iran] and Bahrein [Bahrain]) during the Second World War. It includes papers concerning the following: the defence of oil installations of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) at Ab...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1942-15 Jul 1943
Extent:

1 file (113 folios)

249. IOR/L/PS/12/3734

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3734
Title:
Coll 30/21(3) 'Persian Gulf: Kuwait-Saudi Relations: Blockade by Ibn Saud. Smuggling: Bon Voisinage and Extradition Agreements'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning a number of proposed agreements between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait that were intended to formalise relations between the two countries and to end a trade blockade that had been imposed on Kuwait by Saudi Arabia. Much of the corr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Oct 1937-3 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (512 folios)

250. IOR/L/PS/12/3929

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3929
Title:
Coll 30/191(1) ‘Evacuation of Ras-al-Hadd by R.A.F. and dumping of ammunition into the sea’
Scope & Content:
The file consists of papers (correspondence, mostly by telegraph, and ‘Extract from the Muscat Intelligence Summary No. 8 April 16th-30th.’) relating to the disbandment of the Royal Air Force unit at Ras al Hadd, in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman (and the transfer of personnel, stores and equi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Mar 1946-23 May 1946
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)