Note on the Turkish Fort at Fao on the Shat-el-Arab. (With Sketch Map of the Shat-el-Arab.) 1883 to 1897.
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A memorandum of the events and correspondence relating to the Turkish construction of a fort at Fao on the Shat-el-Arab. The memorandum reproduces a number of representations made by the British Government both directly to the Turkish Porte and through the Persian Government, objecting to the con...
The Shat-Al-'Arab. Traced from the Admiralty Chart.
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A map showing the region around the mouth of the Shat-Al-Arab river and its course as far as Basrah, indicating the location of the Turkish-built fort at Fao. The map also indicates hydrology, vegetation, settlements and water depths with soundings. Published by the Intelligence Division, War O...
Trade of Szemao (Yunnan) with Burma. Its commercial importance. Mandalay-Kunlon Railway and its terminus on the Salween. E Neel, Public Works Dept, 20 Jan 1898
Yunnan. Trade. Present conditions and future development. Agricultural and natural products. Railway prospects. Szemao. Notes on the trade of 1897. E Neel, Public Works Dept, 6 Jun 1898
Yunnan. The present conditions and future development of trade. Its agricultural and natural products. Railway prospects: letters from James Turner, Esq [at Talifu] to John Halliday, Esq, of the Arracan Company, London, dated 30 October and 20 November 1897 Public Works Dept, 1898
Memorandum on Indian trade with western China, and on the resources, trade and trade routes of Yunnan and adjacent provinces (based on various authorities) H J Tozer, Revenue Dept, Oct 1898
Mem: Conclusion of the Declaration with France as to Muscat in 1862 and the acquisition of Gwadar by Muscat.
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A memorandum explaining that Lord Canning, Viceroy and Governor General of India, had arbitrated between the two sons of Sultan Syud Saeed [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd]upon his death. The two sons agreed the division of their inheritance between them as Sultans of Zanzibar and Muscat resp...
Memorandum by Sir W. Lee-Warner on the Lease to France of a Coaling Station in Muskat Territory - Statement of our Case (Political No. 1837/99).
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A memorandum describing how it had emerged that the Sultan of Muskat had granted the French a concession to establish a coaling station on his territory, and stating that the Sultan had only produced the text of the concession upon threat of bombardment by the British. The memorandum goes on to d...