Coll 5/86 ‘Afghanistan: Reorganisation of Air Force’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with a report produced by Colonel Alexander Stalker Lancaster, Military Attaché at Kabul, on the current state of the Afghan Air Force and proposals for its reorganisation and improvement: see folios 31-52 for a copy of this report. The report includes a sketch map (folio 4...
Coll 28/54 ‘Persia. Perso-Polish and Perso-Japanese Relations.’
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Correspondence and other papers relating to diplomatic and commercial relations between Persia [Iran] and Poland, and Persia and Japan. The file includes: a copy (in French) of a Treaty of Friendship and Commercial Convention, signed between Persia and Poland in 1927; correspondence (some in Fre...
Coll 30/77 'Koweit: Persian interference with Koweiti dhows.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns reports of interference with Kuwaiti dhows by Iranian (also referred to as Persian) customs and naval authorities. The papers contain witness statements, letters of protest by the Shaikh of Koweit [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, Ruler of Kuwait], reports, discussion of the incidents ...
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to the defence of Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein in the file), including the supply of guns to the Government of Bahrain, and anti-aircraft defences. The main correspondents are as follows: the India Office; the Political Agent at Bahrai...
Arabia. Question of Future Policy, Subsidies to Chiefs, &c
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This printed report consists of two notes prepared by Richard Marrs and John Evelyn Shuckburgh of the Political Department of the India Office on 19 October 1920 and 29 October 1920 respectively. These notes concern British policy, including the payment of subsidies and grants-in-aid, towards po...
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 90 of 1869, dated 17 March 1869, with an abstract and enclosures numbered 3-4, dated 17 February-8 March 1869. The enclosures consist of: A letter from the Secretary to the Government of Bombay to ...
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 20 of 1870, dated 29 March 1870, containing enclosures dated 5 January-28 March 1870. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to the claim by Persia [Iran] of suzerainty over...
The memorandum, dated 18 May 1839, Kurrachee [Karachi], comprises a report by a merchant who left Candahar [Kandahar] on 29 April. It covers: the arrival of the British Army of the Indus at Candahar on 23 April 1839, the ‘submission’ of local chiefs to Shah Shoojah [Shāh Shujā’ al-Mulk Durrāni];...
The item consists primarily of correspondence with enclosures, notes, reports and memoranda dated between 1 August 1839 and 10 September 1839. It covers the first month after the British occupation of Karrack [Khārk/Kharg]. Most significant are those regarding: mercantile affairs; the movement ...
This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 19 of 1841, dated 27 March 1841. The enclosures are dated 19 January to 27 March 1841, and relate to Aden and Mocha. They mostly consist of copies of corre...
