Coll 25/29 'Orders in Council: Bahrein: Legislation for the control of motoring in the State of Bahrain'
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Correspondence relating to the drafting and issue of The Bahrain Motor Vehicles Regulation, 1939. The legislation was made for the licensing, registration, and control of drivers and vehicles in Bahrain. Correspondents include officials at the Political Agency in Bahrain, Political Residency in t...
Coll 29/12 'Bushire: office allowance of consul-general'
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The file concerns the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, in Bushire. The file covers: office allowance grants for the Vice-Consul and the Residency proposed abolition of the post of interpreter and creation of that of Arabic Munshi, in 1932 cost of living in Bushire secret service and tos...
The file concerns the proposed supply of a wireless receiving set to the Consul General at Meshed, after the Government of India had divested themselves of the responsibility for the Tehran-Meshed Telegraph line, in 1927. The file contains: proposed supply of a wireless receiving set to the Con...
Coll 30/163 'Boundaries of Persian territory: Status of the islands Tumb, Little Tumb, Abu Musa, Farur, Little Farur and Sirri.'
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The file concerns the territorial status of a number of islands in the Persian Gulf. The issue arose in response to a request from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited to the Foreign Office in 1938 concerning the extent of Iranian (generally referred to as Persian) territory, in order that the ...
Coll 35/32 'Wireless stations in the Persian Gulf: allocation of call signs and registration'
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The file concerns allocation of call signs and registration for the wireless telegraph stations in the Persian Gulf. The file contains: registration and call sign for wireless station at Gwadur, 1932 registration and call sign for wireless station at Sharjah, 1933-37 blueprint showing wireless ...
'[Letter] from the General Officer Commanding and Political Resident, Aden, to the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department, Simla'
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This note on the effects of the Arab rising on Aden and its hinterland, with special reference to the possible action of the Turks, was forwarded from the General Officer Commanding and Political Resident in Aden, William C Walton, to the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Depart...
Historical Memorandum on the Relations of the Wahabi Amirs and Ibn Saud with Eastern Arabia and the British Government, 1800-1934
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The file contains a historical memorandum written in response to claims advanced by Ibn Saud to ancestral rights on the eastern boundary of the Saudi Kingdom, and to suggestions put forward by him that at some period in the past arrangements were entered into with his ancestors, the Wahabi Amirs...
ABSTRACT of DESPATCHES and MEMORANDA on Asiatic Politics and European Diplomacy in the countries between India and Russia, and especially in Afghanistan; and as to the establishment of a British Agent at Herat, to watch the progress of events on the Perso-Afghan frontier and in other parts of Central Asia; and further as to the continuance of the subsidy to Dost Muhammad.
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This file contains a memorandum which provides summaries of three despatches sent from Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to the Governor-General of Khorassan, conveying the British Government's proposals both to send a mission to Herat in order to prevent its annexation by Persi...
Persia. Note on the memorandum by Sir M Durand on the situation in Persia - HC 1274 of 1895 [L/PS/3/349].
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This note on the memorandum produced by Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Minister Plenipotentiary to Tehran 1894-1900, was written by Sir William Lee-Warner and focuses on various issues relating to the current situation in Persia. These include: the issue of the Regie debt; concerns over the successi...
File 868/1912 Pt 2 'Arms traffic: arrangements at Muscat for its regulation'
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The volume contains telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, printed reports and a press cutting relating to the arms traffic in Muscat and arrangements for its regulation. Issues discussed include: negotiations between the United Kingdom and France over possible trade-offs in...
