File 1032/1914 Pt 2 'Persian Gulf: TRADE with Gulf Ports'
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Part 2 concerns the shipping of goods between India and Southern Persian ports. Much of the correspondence discusses exports of metals and the possibility of such exports falling into enemy hands. It covers the following subject matter: discussion of Foreign Office concerns regarding exports of ...
This part contains papers relating to the financing, by the British Government, of the Imperial Russian Army in Persia [Iran], notably difficulties concerning the acquisition of currency for the payment of troops, and the development of British policy regarding the method of distribution of fund...
File 2879/1919 Pt 3 ‘MESOPOTAMIA KURDISTAN The AQRAH Incident: Murder of Messrs Bill & Scott’
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This item relates to a violent incident during which two individuals, J H Bill, Indian Civil Service, Political Officer, Mosul, and Captain K R Scott, 31st Punjabis, Indian Army, Assistant Political Officer, Aqrah [also spelled Akra and Aqra in this item], were killed ‘near Birza Kapra in Zab Val...
File 4613/1919 Pt 6 'Mesopotamia:- Land Policy. Mr. Gedge's investigations'
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This item consists of part six of the subject file 4613/1919 Iraq: Land Tenure. It concerns British land policy in the occupied territories of Mesopotamia [Iraq], particularly in relation to possible land development. The part contains correspondence discussing the visit to Mesopotamia of Mr E ...
PZ 6064/32 'Mr C C Garbett: liability to British Income Tax during period of employment under Iraq administration'
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The file contains correspondence regarding the outstanding payment from Colin Campbell Garbett of income tax for his employment by the High Commission, Baghdad, between 1920 and 1922. As well as Mr Garbett, the primary correspondents are: Colonial Office; India Office; Neville Chamberlain, Chance...
PZ 5098/39 'Position of Major G S de Gaury vis-á-vis military service in the event of war'
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This file contains correspondence relating to Major Gerald Simpson Hillairet Rutland Vere de Gaury, the Political Agent in Kuwait, and the possibility that he will be called up for military service. Letters between de Gaury; Roland Tennyson Peel (Secretary for the Political Department in the Indi...
PZ 7261/39 'Kabul Mail: inclusion in India Office bag of papers, etc, for members of Legation Staff, etc'
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This file contains correspondence relating to the acquisition of 'certain periodicals' for the British Legation at Kabul for 'propaganda purposes' during the Second World War (1939-1945). The correspondence mainly details the dispute over which department should be liable for purchasing the peri...
PZ 2216/40 'Bahrain to be main collecting and temporary detention port in the Persian Gulf: question of responsibility'
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This file consists of a letter sent to the Secretary of State for India by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, on behalf of the Political Agent in Bahrain, and a draft reply. The subject of the correspondence is a question of whether or not Bahra...
PZ 2688/41 'Propaganda. Use of commercial channels for distribution of propaganda in Afghanistan and the Middle East.'
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The file contains correspondence between the Secretary of State for India, the Government of India, External Affairs Department, HM Minister at Kabul, the India Office and the Ministry of Information, regarding the possible use of commercial companies in India to distribute propaganda materials ...
Ext 6101/42 'Ghulam Haidar - claim for compensation for damage to motor car during Allied invasion of Persia'
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The file contains a letter to the British Consulate General for Khorasan from Ghulam Haidar, British Indian, claiming for compensation for damage to his motor car by the Iranian military authorities, in Meshed. Further correspondence between the British Legation in Tehran, the Foreign Office, an...
