IOR/L/PS/10/530

The file contains papers - correspondence and India Office papers and internal notes - relating to banking arrangements at Jeddah. It includes papers relating to the following:

• The Basra branch of the Imperial Ottoman Bank applying for permission to do business with the Bank’s Jeddah Agency.
• The Imperial Ottoman Bank’s proposal that the branch at Jeddah should be reopened and placed under the protection of HM Government.
• French participation in any banking arrangements made at Jeddah, and the perceived desirability of a purely British company undertaking banking business at Jeddah.
• The suggestion that the British company Gellatly Hankey should be encouraged to extend their business to include banking.
• The proposal of Boulton Brothers and Company to open a branch of the Alliance Bank of Egypt at Jeddah.

The correspondence mostly consists of: correspondence between the India Office and the Foreign Office; correspondence between the India Office and the Government of India Foreign and Political Department; and copies of Foreign Office correspondence with correspondents including Sir Reginald Wingate, Boulton Brothers and Company, and the Imperial Ottoman Bank.

The file includes four documents in French: a letter from T Aboucassem, Acting Manager of the Djeddah [Jeddah, Saudi Arabia] Agency of the Imperial Ottoman Bank, 18 September 1916; a letter and an extract from a note from the French Ambassador to London, 4 November 1916 and 16 May 1917; and a letter from Georges Heine and H Henry Neuflize to the Members of the Committee of the Imperial Ottoman Bank, London, 23 November 1917.

The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.