This printed memorandum is a note, dated 20 November 1918, by Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel of the India Office concerning British policy in Arabia. The note discusses 'The Status of the King of the Hejaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī]' and 'The Status of Iraq', and largely focuses on British interes...
'Settlement of Turkey and Arabian Peninsula. Note by India Office on Foreign Office memorandum'.
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The note was written by Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel for the India Office, 30 Nov 1918, and consists of remarks on three points drawn out from the Foreign Office memorandum: The Trucial System - disputing the assumptions made in the original memo that Great Britain effectively kept the peace over...
'B 299. Mesopotamia. Note on Demobilisation by Civil Commissioner, Baghdad.'
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Note on demobilisation by Arnold Talbot Wilson, Civil Commissioner, Baghdad (enclosed in letter to the India Office, No 20517, dated 28 September 1918). The note gives details on the two areas that demobilisation would need to cover, namely the repatriation of the fighting force and the transfe...
Tibet. Agreement dated 19 August 1918 for the restoration of peaceful relations and the delimitation of a provisional frontier between China and Tibet. Dec 1918
Tibet. Supplementary agreement, dated 10 October 1918, regarding mutual withdrawal of troops and cessation of hostilities between Chinese and Tibetans. Mar 1919
Memorandum on British Commitments (during the War) to the Gulf Chiefs
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This is a printed memorandum by the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office concerning British commitments during the First World War to autonomous or independent Arab rulers of the Persian Gulf, including the Sultan of Maskat [Muscat], the Trucial Chiefs of Oman (that is, Abu Dh...
British Desiderata in Regard to the Baghdad Railway
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This confidential memorandum, signed R V, concerns Britain's policy with regards to the Baghdad Railway following the occupation of the Mesopotamia. The memorandum details two variant policies: (1) regarding the Railway not as private property, but as a Turkish State railway, and that all its ass...