Report of a Committee of Enquiry on the Lighting and Buoyage of the Persian Gulf
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A report of a committee of enquiry on the lighting and buoyage of the Persian Gulf, 1909. The report discusses the existing lighting facilities in the Gulf (at Kuwait and Fao) and the details of a proposed scheme to construct a comprehensive network of lights at the following locations: Muscat...
Report by David W Hood, Associate Military Institute of Civil Engineer, supplementary to that of a committee of enquiry on the lighting and buoyage of the Persian Gulf
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This secret report was compiled on 28 June 1909 by David W Hood, to identify spots suitable for the establishment of sea-marks in the Persian Gulf, providing estimated costs for construction and maintenance of light houses and buoys in: Muscat [Oman] (with sketch map on f 120); Little Quoin [Oma...
A printed confidential memorandum for the use of the Foreign Office. The memorandum addresses the Turkish [Ottoman] increase of custom dues and proposals of a Tigris Valley Railway and a Baghdad-Mediterranean Railway. It also contains updates on negotiations with Germany, Russia and France in 19...
Burma-China frontier: report on Consul's tour and frontier meetings for the open season 1909 to 1910 (Political No 3290/10) A Rose, Tengyueh, 3 Mar 1910
This file is a report regarding arms traffic in the Persian Gulf written by John Evelyn Shuckburgh of the India Office's Political Department. The main body of the report (ff 30-51) is divided up as follows: I. Summary of Early History; II. The Situation in 1907; III. Events in 1907-09; IV. ...