The volume comprises correspondence regarding the decision by British authorities to establish a naval blockade along the Mekran coast in 1909, with the aim of suppressing arms trafficking in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence discusses the cost of a naval blockade, the availability of naval ...
File 3104/1915 Pt 4 ‘Mesopotamia: Trade with Baghdad & Export of wool’
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Correspondence and papers concerning the export of wool from Baghdad in Mesopotamia [Iraq] during Britain’s military occupation of the country in the First World War. Subjects covered include: enquiries from commercial firms seeking to export wool from Mesopotamia; shipping arrangements for the ...
The file consists of telegrams and secret circular dispatches from James Henry Thomas, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, relating to proposals for an Eastern Locarno Treaty, or Eastern Pact of Mutual Guarantee. The file includes three telegrams to the Canadian Secretary of State for Ext...
The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Secretary of State for India, the Ministry of Information and the Wireless Telegraphy Board, discussing a proposal to jam Berlin Arabic radio broadcasts in the region of Bahrain, on account of their being li...
This file contains papers relating to a constitutional crisis in Iran during 1947. The papers are mostly secret diplomatic reports on the fluid political situation in Tehran. The papers are mainly correspondence between the British ambassador to Tehran and the Foreign Office in London, but also ...
This volume is a continuation of IOR/L/PS/12/2872, and contains papers regarding the Assyrian Crisis in Iraq during 1933. It consists of correspondence between HM Ambassador to Iraq (Sir Francis Humphrys), HM Chargé d’Affaires to Iraq (George Ogilvie-Forbes), and the Foreign Office, as well as c...
This volume is a continuation of IOR/L/PS/12/2873, and contains papers regarding the Assyrian Crisis in Iraq during 1933-1934. The papers concern the proposal to settle Assyrians on land owned by Paraná Plantations Limited in Brazil, and documents the negotiations between the League of Nations a...
The file provides an account of the navigation of the rivers of Mesopotamia from 1640, with a series of extracts from despatches, letters, reports, a diary, a treaty, and an order. It details agreements between England and Turkey; the movements of British steamers within the region; the question...
Sketch Map Showing the Coastlines of the Koweit Neutral Zone, Koweit, Iraq, and Part of Iran, on the Persian Gulf
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The sketch map shows the coastlines of the Koweit [Kuwait] Neutral Zone, Koweit, Iraq, and part of Western Iran on the Persian Gulf. Khorramshahr (Mohammerah) and Abadan in Iran, Shaiba, Zubair, Umm Qasr [Um Qasr], Basra, and Fao in Iraq, and Koweit City in Koweit are indicated, as are frontier l...
‘The Rock and Village of Balas (Jabal Jihaf) Looking East from Camp of Hants Regt.’
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Reproduction of an illustration in black ink of a rocky promontory and the village of Balas, Yemen. The map is signed Major A Crawford, Royal Artillery. Below the map is a dotted line indicating the new road from Karna [Qarnah] to Dala [Ḑāli‘].