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Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/18

501. IOR/L/PS/18/B218

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B218
Title:
‘Policy in the Middle East. II. Select Reports and Telegrams from Sir Mark Sykes.’
Scope & Content:
Secret report on British policy in the Middle East, divided into two sections (reports and telegrams) sent by Sir Mark Sykes during 1915, while on his tour of the Middle East, on behalf of the de Bunsen Committee. Report no. 4 (Secret), dated 12 June 1915 from Athens, reporting on an interview h...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 file (9 folios)

502. IOR/L/PS/18/B219

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B219
Title:
‘Policy in the Middle East. III. The Arab Movement.’
Scope & Content:
Printed copy of a secret memorandum, dated 1915; a report by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Mark Sykes, which is an overview of the human, religious and political dimensions of the Arab population in the Middle East. The report is divided into four sections, based on the four groups of Arab people ident...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

503. IOR/L/PS/18/B220

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B220
Title:
‘Advance to Baghdad – Political Considerations. Note by Political Department, India Office.’
Scope & Content:
Note written by John Evelyn Shuckburgh, Assistant Secretary of the Political Department, India Office, on the political and strategic importance that would be associated with British forces taking Baghdad, and the likely political and strategic injury that the British would incur should they fai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Oct 1915
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

504. IOR/L/PS/18/B221

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B221
Title:
'Germany and the Middle East'
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum, by Joseph Austen Chamberlain, contains a report of a lecture 'Germany and the Middle East', by Dr Paul Rohrbach given at the Hamberg Volksheim which was printed in Hamburger Fremdenblatt, 3 December 1915. The report discusses Rohrbach's opinions on the current situatio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1915
Extent:

1 folio

505. IOR/L/PS/18/B222

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B222
Title:
Correspondence with the Grand Sherif of Mecca
Scope & Content:
This secret file is a collection of printed correspondence. It contains telegrams between Joshua Milne Crompton Cheetham, Acting High Commissioner at Cairo, and the Foreign Office, letters from and correspondence between Shaikh Abdalla Ibn Hosayn [Abd Allāh ibn al-Husayn] and his father, Hussein...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1914-10 Mar 1916
Extent:

1 file (8 folios)

506. IOR/L/PS/18/B223a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B223a
Title:
Memorandum by the Political Secretary, India Office, on German press opinion regarding the Middle East
Scope & Content:
This document outlines Germany's intentions to conduct economic dealings in Turkey, in particular through the importing and exporting of goods. The writer, Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel, explores the opinions of the press regarding the correct way to implement such procedures in Turkey, and discus...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1916
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

507. IOR/L/PS/18/B223b

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B223b
Title:
Second memorandum, by the Political Secretary, India Office, on German press opinion regarding the Middle East. April and May
Scope & Content:
This second memorandum by Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel uses press reports to present a general view of the current situation in Turkey with regard to German involvement in the country. Various topics are discussed including the new currency, Turkish nationalism, the Deutsche-Türkisch Vereinigung [...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

508. IOR/L/PS/18/B224

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B224
Title:
Japanese policy and its bearing on India. Sir F A Hirtzel, 16 May 1916
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 May 1916
Extent:
7pp

509. IOR/L/PS/18/B225

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B225
Title:
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel William George Grey, Indian Army, Political Agent, Kuwait to Sir Arthur Hirtzel, Secretary, Political Department, India Office
Scope & Content:
The letter from Lieutenant-Colonel William George Grey to Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel encloses a copy of a letter No. C/8 of 1915 by Grey, as Political Agent in Kuwait, to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, dated 9 June 1915, regarding Arab co-operation with the Turks in the Shatt al-Ar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jun 1915
Extent:

2 folios

510. IOR/L/PS/18/B226

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B226
Title:
Letter from Brigadier-General Arthur Wigram Money, General Headquarters, India Expeditionary Force "D", Basrah [Basra] to the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign and Political Department, India Office
Scope & Content:
The confidential letter reports on the tribal situation in Mesopotamia [Iraq], describing the various tribes located in the different listed geographic areas and noting whether they were friendly or hostile to British forces. The sections in the letter include: General - reporting on the check r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jan 1916
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

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