This item comprises copies of a despatch and enclosures from the Government of India, Foreign Department, to the Duke of Argyll, HM Secretary of State for India, Number 12 of 1873, dated 17 January 1873. The enclosures date from 11 October to 21 December 1872, and consist of printed copies of co...
Part 1 contains correspondence relating to the demarcation of the boundary in Baluchistan, between Persia, British India, and Afghanistan. The correspondence is between the Foreign Department of the Government of India, the Viceroy of India, the Foreign Office, and the India Office. Included as ...
File 348/1913 Pt 1 'Persia: Kerman affairs; proposal to finance the governor; Proposal to appoint British officers'
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The volume comprises correspondence between: the India Office, the Foreign Office, the Foreign Secretary for India, the British Consul for Kerman, the British Minister at Tehran, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, regarding affairs in Kerman. The subjects are: a proposal to finance...
File 94/1915 Pt 3 ‘German War:- Turkey. Payments to British subjects in Turkish territory &c.’
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Papers concerning the advance of financial relief to British Indians stranded in Baghdad and elsewhere in Ottoman territory, in the wake of Britain’s invasion of Mesopotamia [Iraq] in November 1914. The papers cover: proposals for funds to be forwarded to and distributed by the United States Con...
File 1144/1915 'Persia:- Secret Service Expenditure by Consular Officers. Seistan Levies Expenditure. South Persia Rifles (see also F 2834/12)'
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The volume comprises correspondence related to the diplomatic and consular expenditure on Special Secret Service in Persia and the Persian Gulf between 1915-1921. The papers focus on the financial adjustments to be made between the India Office and the Foreign Office. According to the statements...
File 334/1916 Pt 2 ‘Persia:- Outrages against British subjects. Shiraz Prisoners. (Col. O’Connor & others) Claim for compensation [etc.]’
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The file contains papers relating to a claim for compensation from the Persian [Iranian] Government being made by the British Government, on behalf of mostly British subjects who were arrested by the Persian gendarmerie at Shiraz on 10 November 1915, with most of the men being held prisoner by T...
File 4722/1918 Pt 11 'Mesopotamia: Administration. Appointment of Sir P. Cox as High Commissioner. [His Instructions, Announcement in the Press].'
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The volume consists of drafts and copies of correspondence, memoranda, and minutes relating to the appointment of Sir Percy Zachariah Cox as High Commissioner in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The following matters are covered within the volume: Discussion over the wording of a public announcement to be m...
File 1913/1920 'Mesopotamia and Palestine: rent of billets in occupation of military; liability of Mesopotamian state for cost of military forces'
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The item contains correspondence regarding the use of billets by British military forces and civil officials in Mesopotamia [Iraq] in the years following the end of the First World War. Topics discussed include: Efforts to vacate and release as many billets as possible as a way to appease anti-Br...
PZ 6508/35 Aden: rebuilding of Church of Scotland School at Sheikh Othman
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The file consists of correspondence concerning enquiries for a grant from the Colonial Office towards the cost of rebuilding the Church of Scotland School at Sheikh Othman [Ash Shaykh ‘Uthmān] in Aden, which was destroyed by a flood in 1927. The main correspondents include John Graham Kerr, MP ...
PZ 5191/38 'Iraq Petroleum Co's. oil agreement with Iraqi Govt'
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The file consists of correspondence and official agreements relating to the Iraq Petroleum Company's oil conventions with the Iraq Government. Correspondents include the HM Representative, Baghdad, and the British Embassy in Baghdad. Also includes: the convention published in the official Iraq...
