Yun-nan soldier on the march. A personal body-guard. Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
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Full-length portrait of a Chinese soldier, standing with his pack hanging from the rifle slung over his shoulder, and holding an umbrella above his head.
File 733/1904 Pts 3, 4, 5, and 6 'MUSCAT. COMMERCIAL TREATY. STATUS OF MUSCATIS. HOSPITAL.'
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The volume comprises four parts discussing affairs in Muscat which are indirectly related to the Muscat Arbitration discussed in parts 1 and 2: part 3 discusses a possible revision of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and Muscat, originally signed in 1892; p...
File 3516/1914 Pt 13 'German War: Persia; Saulet and Kawain; quarterly adjustment with Foreign Office'
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The volume concerns the situation in south-western Persia during the First World War. The main focus is the alliance with the tribal chiefs Soulet [Soulet-ed-Douleh, Sawlat al-Dawlah] and Kawan [Kawam-ul-Mulk, Quavvam-ul-Mulk, Qavam al-Mulk]. The volume covers: Negotiations to give Soulet prote...
File 4535/1928 Pt 16 ‘Persian Gulf: Political Control Report of the Warren Fisher Committee.’
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The file contains papers concerning political control in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula. The first half of the file relates to the inter-departmental Sub-Committee of Political Control of the Persian Gulf Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence. The Sub-Committee on Poli...
PZ 53/31 'Disposal of Rebel Leaders - Ibn Mashur.'
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The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the case of Farhan ibn Mashur, who had committed various acts of rebellion against Ibn Saud. At the conference on HMS Lupin in February 1930 (the Lupin Conference) the King of Iraq (Faisal I) had given a...
Ext 329/43 ‘Shipment of Food to Persian Gulf States’
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The file is concerned with the supply of food – in the form of cereals and dried fruit – to the Persian Gulf States (Bahrain, Kuwait, Muscat, and the Trucial Coast) and eastern Saudi Arabia, during the Second World War (1939-1945) and its aftermath. This involves correspondence discussing the mi...
Coll 6/50 'Saudi Arabia: Saudi Relations with the Soviet.'
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This file concerns relations between the Government of the Hejaz and Nejd (Saudi Arabia from September 1932 onwards) and the Soviet Union. It largely consists of copies of correspondence received by the Foreign Office from His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader...
Coll 6/54 'Saudi-Arabia: Limits of Saudi Arabian territorial waters.'
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This file concerns the delimitation of Saudi Arabia's territorial waters. It documents reservations held by the British regarding the Saudi Government's claim that its territorial waters extend as far as four miles from the shore (as opposed to the three-mile limit favoured by the British). The ...
Coll 17/19 ‘Iraq: Sheikh of Koweit’s Fao Date Gardens’
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The file contains papers, mainly correspondence and India Office Minute Papers, relating to the Shaikh of Koweit’s [Kuwait’s] date gardens at Fao [Al-Faw] in Iraq. It includes correspondence concerning: Unrest among the fellaheen [agricultural labourers or peasants] on the Fao estates in 1933, w...
Coll 30/196 ‘Persian Gulf Defence. Muscat. War Subsidy’
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The file contains papers relating to the defence of Muscat. It includes papers regarding: the position of the Sultan of Muscat in the event of the outbreak of war (since he was an independent sovereign and therefore his state would not automatically be on the side of the British Empire in war)...
