File 868/1904 Pt 2 'Consular: Exemption of Foreign Consular Officers in India from Customs duties'
Scope & Content:
Part 2 concerns the exemption of Foreign Consular Officers in India from customs duties. It contains: customs concessions to German Consular Officers; treatment for Customs purposes of articles imported into India for the official use of the German Consulates; claims of Russian Consul General a...
File 74/1915 Pt 4 'Mesopotamia: Imperial Ottoman Bank, Baghdad Branch'
Scope & Content:
This part contains correspondence and India Office Minute Papers relating to the Imperial Ottoman Bank in Mesopotamia [Iraq], mainly concerning the Baghdad branch. It includes papers regarding: The decision of the British Government, on the recommendation of local British political authoritie...
This part contains papers relating to the financing, by the British Government, of the Imperial Russian Army in Persia [Iran], particularly the difficulties in the acquisition of currency to pay troops, and policy developments concerning the role of Russian forces in Britain’s military and polit...
File 4613/1919 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: Land Policy (Tenure and Acquisition) (General file)'
Scope & Content:
This item consists of part one of the subject file 4613/1919 Iraq: Land Tenure. It concerns British land policy in the occupied territories of Mesopotamia [Iraq] and particularly relates to the sale, leasing or granting of land to persons other than domiciled inhabitants of the territories (e.g....
PZ 1648/32 Persian Gulf: Irregularities Committed by Captain A R Walker as Commandant of Muscat State Levy Corps
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The file contains correspondence (mainly copies) regarding irregularities in connection with the administration and command of the Muscat State Levy Corps by Captain A R Walker, 11th Sikh Regiment. It includes: copies of correspondence between S E Hedgcock, Muscat, and the Political Agent, Mus...
PZ 5708/37 'Claim for compensation in respect of losses sustained in the Great War: Mrs Aga Faruksha'
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The file consists of correspondence concerning a compensation claim for the murder of Aga Farrukh Shah (also spelt Agha Farrukhshah) at Kerman during the First World War. Aga Farrukh Shah was supposedly working in the interest of the British Government at the time of his death, and the first cla...
PZ 6755/37 'Consular: Funds held by H.M. Consular Officers on behalf of the Government of India'
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The file consists of correspondence regarding a proposal for the certification of cash balances held by HM Consular Officers on behalf of the Government of India. This covers scenarios where consular officers obtained funds directly from the Government of India in advance of expenditure to be in...
PZ 3054/40 'Journey of son and two grandsons of Sultan of Lahej to Aden from Egypt via Transjordan'
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This document is a cypher telegram sent from the High Commissioner for Trans-Jordan [Emirate of Transjordan] to the Secretary of State for the Colonies relating to the potential passage of a son and two grandsons of the Sultan of Lahej through Transjordan on their way from Egypt to Aden.
PZ 6479/40 Correspondence regarding Payment for Photographs supplied by the Government of Palestine to the Government of Bahrain
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The file contains correspondence between the Government of Palestine, the Crown Agents for the Colonies and the India Office regarding a request from the Government of Palestine for payment for a number of photographs sent to the Government of Bahrain. The file also contains correspondence from ...
Ext 1186/43 'Transmission of mail from Bahrain Petroleum Company, Bahrain Island, to its Head Office in New York'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers regarding the transmission of internal correspondence between Bahrain and New York by the Bahrain Petroleum Company. The file covers concerns that sensitive information is being sent openly and is therefore vulnerable to enemy interception, and suggestions that future tra...
