File 4535/1928 Pt 10, 17 ‘PERSIAN GULF. REMOVAL OF RESIDENCY FROM BUSHIRE’
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This volume (which consists of two parts, Part 10 and Part 17) contains papers concerning issues in relation to the removal of the British Political Residency from Bushire in Persia [Iran]. Part 10 [IOR/L/PS/10/1274/1] consists of papers relating to the question of whether the Political Residen...
Coll 6/14 'Hejaz-Nejd: International Sanitary Arrangements.'
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This file concerns international sanitary arrangements in relation to the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia). The file consists almost entirely of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, which have been forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-S...
Reports on the general economic situation in Persia [Iran] as reported by staff at the British Legation in Tehran. The file includes: newspaper cuttings and typewritten extracts of articles in the Persian press (chiefly Le Messager de Teheran); budget statements issued by the Persian Government;...
Memorandum describing the developments leading up to the surrender of quarantine control by His Majesty's Government to the Persian Government in 1928. It outlines the following: quarantine arrangements dating from 1864 including who was responsible for what in terms of roles and the financial ou...
The memorandum consists of a number of notes authored by the following: Sir Hugh Barnes, Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick, Sir John Edge, and Sir William Lee-Warner; all members of the Council of India. The notes discuss whether or not Britain should advance a further loan to Persia, and what concessions...
This document, written by Basil Cochrane Newton (the British Ambassador at Baghdad), outlines concerns that Shakib Arslan is assisting the German Government in planning and organising uprisings in Syria, Iraq, Transjordan and Palestine, and that he is in correspondence with the Grand Mufti of Je...
The file comprises correspondence between the Military Attaché in China and the Commander-in-Chiefs in India and the Middle East as of March 1943. The mission starts from Chungking via Calcutta to Cairo. The mission was comprised of Major-General Hoo Hsien Chung, Major-General Lam Wai Ching, Col...
The volume contains papers regarding the alleged smuggling of goods from Kuwait to Iraq, and attempts to broker an agreement between the Shaikh of Kuwait (Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ) and the Government of Iraq with regards to importation restrictions, customs appointments and effective front...
Political No. 68 of 1874, Forwarding with Observations a Copy of a Letter from Dr Kirk Giving Cover to a Correspondence with the Foreign Office on Certain Matters Connected with the Slave Trade Treaty of June 1873 with the Sultan of Zanzibar
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This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 10 April 1874, forwarding with observations a copy of a letter from Dr John Kirk, Political Agent and Consul-General at Zanzibar, giving cover to a corre...
General No. 16 of 1874, Forwarding a Copy of a Letter from the Government of Bombay Reporting the Proceedings of the Commander of HMS Kwangtung in Connection with the Wreck of the Steam Ship Woosung in the Red Sea
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This item consists of copies of a General Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 15 May 1874 and received via Brindisi on 8 June 1874, forwarding a copy of a letter from the Government of Bombay reporting the proceedings of the Commande...
