IOR/L/PS/10/240

This part of the volume contains telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, printed reports and two press cuttings relating to the arms traffic in Muscat and arrangements for its regulation.

Issues discussed include:

• acquisition from French dealers at Muscat of sample rifles and ammunition from the Gulf;
• disposal of the sample arms sent home from Muscat and their availability to collectors dealers;
• methods of disposing of the French dealers' stocks of arms at Jibuti [Djibouti] and Muscat after purchase;
• request of Monsieur Louis Dieu that purchased stocks may be removed from his premises;
• proposed utilisation of Muscat arms stocks in the 'Anglo-German War'.

The volume includes two statistical tables, 'Inventory of arms and ammunition in French Private Warehouses in Maskat' (ff 96-98; 91-92).

The principal correspondents in the volume include: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Percy Zachariah Cox; the Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf; the Political Agent at Muscat (Stuart George Knox; Robert Arthur Edward Benn); the Viceroy; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Edward Grey; the Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office; the Ambassador to France, Sir Francis Bertie; the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty; Commander-in-Chief, East Indies; the War Office; HM Paymaaster General;

The volume is part 7 of 7. Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.