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IOR/L/PS/10/480
- Record Id:
- 040-000545444
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000544688
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000177
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100049269915.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/480
- Title:
- File 3516/1914 Pt 3 'German War: Persian neutrality; German money for Persia'
- Scope & Content:
-
The volume concerns German remittances to Persia, and the Foreign Office's efforts to stop and prevent these.
The volume covers:
- Transmission of money from Amsterdam to Tehran, to be used for German propaganda during the First World War, via Imperial Bank of Persia.
- Various German attempts to remit money to Shiraz via French, Dutch, and British banks, for the use of the German Legation at Tehran.
- Correspondence intercepted and individuals suspected, at Bombay and in Persia.
- Black list of Persian firms with whom trading is prohibited (ff 209-211).
- Financial transactions between Persia and India.
- Black list of Persian individuals accused of trading with enemy firms (f 136).
- Restitution of sums confiscated after the end of the War.
The volume’s principal correspondents are: Maurice de Bunsen, Foreign Office; Walter Beaupre Townley and Charles Murray Marling, British Ministers at Tehran; Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; L Robertson and John Edwin Clapham Jukes, Secretaries to the Government of Bombay; Arthur Prescott Trevor, Deputy Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Alfred Hamilton Grant and Hugh Vincent Biscoe, Secretaries to the Government of India; Arthur Hirtzel, Leonard Day Wakely, India Office; William Henry Lucas, Commissioner in Sind; Foreign Trade Department; War Trade Department; Government of India, Department of Commerce and Industry; H C B Mitchell, Custodian of Enemy Property at Bombay; George Newell, Imperial Bank of Persia Manager; the Manchester and Liverpool District Banking; Heyn, Franc & Co; Klemantaski, Bates & Co.
There are some letters in French, from the French Embassy in London.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000544688
040-000545444 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/10 : Departmental Papers: Political and Secret Separate (or Subject) Files
IOR/L/PS/10/480 : File 3516/1914 Pt 3 'German War: Persian neutrality; German money for Persia' - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0010]/036-000544688[0482]/040-000545444
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (349 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000177
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1914
- End Date:
- 1919
- Date Range:
- 20 Dec 1914-2 Oct 1919
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 351; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-349; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
- Former External References:
- P 3516/1914 Pt 3
- Arrangement:
- The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)