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The file contains letters received by Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire. The majority of letters are naval patrol reports submitted to the Resident by the following British officers in the Persian Gulf Squadron of the Indian Navy: Captain William Lowe...
The file contains letters relating to the Indian Naval Squadron of the Persian Gulf. The three main correspondents are the following: Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire; Commodore John Patterson Porter, Commander of the Indian Naval Squadron in the Persian Gu...
This file is divided into two sections. The first section (folios 2-21) consists of fourteen letters from Bushire to Tehran, two letters from Bushire to Baghdad and two letters from Tehran to Bushire. The letters from Bushire are written by Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, ...
File 61/14 III (D 47) Nejd and 'Iraq, relations between, (Mutair raid on Busaiyah etc.)
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The volume contains telegrams, letters, and reports relating to affairs between Najd, Kuwait, and Iraq. Most of the correspondence is between Lionel Haworth, the Political Resident in Bushire, Henry Dobbs, the High Commissioner in Baghdad, Ibn Sa'ud, the King of the Hejaz and Najd, Leo Amery, th...
‘File 86/2 III (C 42) Bahrain Oil, Eastern and General Syndicate Limited’
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The volume contains letters, telegrams and memoranda relating to the completion of the transfer of the Bahrain oil concession to the Bahrain Petroleum Company (hereafter BAPCO), and BAPCO’s ongoing oil exploration activities in Bahrain. The volume is a direct continuation of ‘File 86/2 II (C 31)...
'B. 53. CONFIDENTIAL 86/14 - iv BAHRAIN UNALLOTED AREA'
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The volume comprises correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle); Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman); the India Office (John Percival Gibson, John Charles Walton); the Shaikh of Bahrain (Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah); the Adviser to th...
'B. 56. Confidential 86/14 - v. BAHRAIN UNALLOTED AREA.'
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The volume comprises correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle), the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman), the India Office (Roland Tennyson Peel, John Percival Gibson), the Secretary to the Government of India, External Affairs Department (...
File 1/A/48 I Control of Prices of standard foodstuffs in Bahrain.
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The file concerns the control of prices of foodstuffs and other commodities in Bahrain, the suppression of hoarding, and the regulation of imports and exports by the Food Controller, Bahrain, against the background of wartime conditions caused by the outbreak of the Second World War (1939-45). ...
File 8/8 II Annual Administration Report of The Bahrain Agency
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The file contains correspondence relating to the collation and submission of the annual Administration Report of the Bahrain Political Agency and the Trucial Coast Office, as well as the reports themselves. Present within the file are the reports for the years 1940-43. Each Bahrain Agency repor...
File 9/30 Position of Arab Shaikhdoms under the Bretton-Woods Agreements
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The file contains correspondence from the Persian Gulf Residency, informing the Political Agents in Kuwait, Bahrain and Muscat of the decisions made during the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference and transmitting the following leaflets: United Nations Monetary and Financial Conferen...
