IOR/R/15/2/124

The volume contains correspondence relating to arms trafficking and slavery in the Persian Gulf. Correspondence regarding arms trafficking takes up a small proportion of the file. It includes a printed copy of the British Government's Convention for the Control of the Trade in Arms and Ammunition, dated 10 September 1919 (ff 6-23), and correspondence exchanged in March 1923 between the Political Resident (Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Trevor) and the Bahrain Political Agent (Captain Clive Daly), discussing an apparent increase in the numbers of arms being traded into Arabia (ff 24-28).

The majority of the file is dedicated to specific instances of slave trading in the region. A significant portion of the file is comprised of correspondence related to the import of five Armenian women from Kuwait to Qatar via Bahrain in 1924 (from f 31 onwards). Copies and return correspondence on this subject can be found in the Bushire Residency file '5/193 I (B23) Slavery in the Gulf' (IOR/R/15/1/225), but the items in this volume provide greater detail of the role played in the matter by the Bahrain Political Agent (Daly) and the American Mission in Bahrain in the recovery and questioning of the Armenian women, as well as details of how and where each of the women were traded (ff 101-104).