IOR/L/PS/12/127

The file contains correspondence relating to the issue of whether a pension paid from 1918 to 1923 to Mr Naoum Abbo of Basra, an Iraqi national, should be continued.

The correspondence includes:

• Letters and copies of letters between the India Office and Mackrell, Ward and Knight, including a copy of a letter to the Secretary, India Office, dated 29 January 1935 (folio 13), stating that their client, resident in Baghdad, is interested the request of Abbo - who the letter states was employed by the British Consul at Basra as Chief Dragoman for approximately fourteen years up to the outbreak of the First World War, and four years thereafter in the Political Department of the Government of India – for continuance of a pension paid to him from 1918.
• Correspondence between the India Office and the Foreign Office regarding Abbo’s case, including letters from the India Office to the Foreign Office enclosing copies of correspondence between the India Office and Mackrell, Ward and Knight, and correspondence from the Foreign Office to the India Office enclosing copies of correspondence between the Foreign Office and Mackrell, Ward and Knight. This correspondence includes a copy of a letter from D.J. Scott, Foreign Office, to Mackrell, Ward and Knight, dated 3 June 1935 (folio 2), in which it is stated that the question of the continuance of Naoum Abbo’s pension is solely one for the Iraqi government.

The file also includes copies of earlier papers relating to the case, dated 23 March 1915 to 26 April 1923.