Abstract: Correspondence, reports and other papers concerning the ill-treatment of British subjects in Persia [Iran] by the Persian authorities. The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/60(1) ‘Persia. Treatment of Foreigners; Position of British subjects, and British Consular Representatives, etc.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3466). The file covers: the treatment and deportation of British subjects (Berberis, or Hazara Khawari) from the Khorasan province of Persia into neighbouring British India (Pakistan); an incident occurring in 1938 in which a bus carrying British consular officials was commandeered by an officer of the Persian military; claims of discrimination against British subjects in Meshed [Mashhad]; a boycott imposed upon the British Consulate at Meshed by the Persian Government; correspondence describing the general attitude of the Persian authorities towards British persons in Persia; a ‘Report on the Attitude towards the British in Persia in March 1938’, written by Lieutenant Ian Hallam Lyall-Grant of the Royal Engineers (ff 134-142).The file’s principal correspondents are: Nevile Montagu Butler of the British Legation in Tehran; HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Horace James Seymour; HM’s Consul at Meshed, Giles Frederick Squire; Charles William Baxter and Herbert Lacy Baggallay of the Foreign Office; the Government of India.The file contains a single item in Persian, a typewritten letter (accompanied by English translation) from the British Embassy in Tehran to the Iranian Minister for Foreign Affairs, dated 23 April 1947 (f 5).The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 304; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Abstract: Copies of prohibition and deportation orders issued by the Political Agent, Bahrain, under the articles of the Bahrain Order in Council, 1913. The orders were passed against people of various nationalities but the majority are Iranians for travelling without a passport. Correspondence, minute papers, drafts and manuscript notes relating to the orders are also contained in the file. Principal correspondents include officials from the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Government of India (External Affairs Department), and India Office.Also included in the file are details of the judgements given on some cases that resulted in orders of prohibition or deportation and correspondence between the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf and the British Legation in Tehran concerning the reasons for and conditions of deportations of Iranians.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 395; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file consists of correspondence sent primarily between the Kuwait Political Agent, the Persian Gulf Political Resident, and officials of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office. It is concerned with how deportations of prisoners from the Gulf States — under the
Colonial Prisoners Removal Act, 1884 —and their subsequent maintenance in the UK are to be paid for.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 21; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The volume comprises two parts discussing Orders in Council:Part 4 concerns Orders in Council and documents on the deportation to India under Order in Council of British Indian subjects convicted in Siam, Zanzibar, Jeddah and Egypt.Part 5 concerns the Ottoman Order in Council 1910; and the applicability of the Ottoman Order in Council, 1899, and the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, to Yemen and the other Turkish possessions in Arabia.The volume comprises two parts: 4 and 5. Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, year the subject file was opened, subject heading, and list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 226; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The volume concerns negotiations over the signing of a friendship and bon voisinage [border co-operation] agreement between the Kingdom of Iraq, and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd (usually referred to separately as Hejaz or Nejd), following the suppression by the Hejaz Government of the Akhwan [Ikhwan] 'revolt'.In addition to India Office correspondence and memoranda, the volume includes correspondence from: the High Commissioner for Iraq; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Vincent Biscoe); the Colonial Office; the Foreign Office; HM Minister, Jeddah (Sir Andrew Ryan); officials of the governments of Iraq, and Hejaz and Nejd; Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, King of Hejaz and Nejd]; and King Faisal [Fayṣal I] of Iraq.The papers cover: the presence of rebel Akhwan refugees in Iraq and Koweit [Kuwait]; correspondence concerning the request of the Hejaz and Nejd Government for the extradition from Iraq of the Ikhwan leader Farhan Ibn Mashhur [Farḥān bin Mashhūr al-Sha‘lān], who was regarded by the Hejaz and Nejd Government as a rebel and criminal; the surrender to the Hejaz and Nejd Government of Faisal al Dawish [Fayṣal bin Sulṭān al-Dawīsh], January 1930; negotiations over the payment by Ibn Saud of £10,000 as compensation for raids by rebel tribes into Iraq and Kuwait, in the proportion £7,000 to Iraq and £3,000 to Kuwait; papers concerning the conference between Ibn Saud and King Faisal on board HMS
Lupin, February 1930; negotiations over the signing of a friendship and bon voisinage agreement between the two states, and a protocol on arbitration; drafts of the agreements (folios 448-455 and 689-693); reports by Captain John Bagot Glubb, Administrative Inspector, Government of Iraq, including praise for his work from Ibn Saud (folio 506); reports by the Political Agent, Kuwait (Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson) concerning the settlement of frontier issues between Kuwait and Nejd; the Hejaz and Nejd Government's insistence that an extradition treaty should be negotiated before the signing of a treaty of friendship and bon voisinage; difficulties over the definition of 'political offenders' under the terms of an extradition treaty; the claim by Iraq of £30,000 from Ibn Saud in settlement of raids from Nejd into Iraq; arrangements for the extradition of Ibn Mashhur to Hejaz and Nejd; complaints by the Iraq Government over the activities of agents of Ibn Saud on the Iraq frontier; claims by the Hejaz and Nejd Government totalling £20,500 for damages for losses sustained by Nejdi tribesmen, including £4,000 for casualties incurred during operations by the Royal Air Force (RAF); comments by British officials on the draft bon voisinage agreement; and attempts by Ibn Mashhur to avoid returning to Hejaz by remaining in Syria, December 1930.The French language content of the papers consists of two items (two folios in total) of diplomatic correspondence.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 contained by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 922; 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 631-922; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
Abstract: The file contains papers, mostly India Office minute papers and correspondence, relating to the deportation from the Hejaz of certain Indians for anti-British and pro-Turkish activities (as part of the silk letters movement), and their internment in Malta.The file includes correspondence between the India Office and the following: the Government of India Foreign and Political Department; the High Commissioner for Egypt, Sir (Arthur) Henry McMahon; the Foreign Office; the Colonial Office; and the War Office. The file also includes correspondence between the High Commissioner for Egypt, Sir (Arthur) Henry McMahon, and the Foreign Office, and between the High Commissioner for Egypt and the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Department.The file includes photographic copies of the silk letters, which are written in Urdu (folios 63 to 66).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 157; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence relating to the detention and temporary deportation from Kuwait to Basra, of Salih Sasoon Mahlab, a Jewish merchant. Following official enquiries, the suspicion that Salih Sasoon Mahlab (also spelt Nahlab) was charging excessive brokerage on goods he bought from Kuwait merchants and sold to British Government officials, was disproved and he was allowed to return to Kuwait and resume his business. The main correspondents are Shaikh Salim El Mubarak as Subah [Āl Ṣabāḥ, Shaikh Sālim bin Mubārak], Captain Percy Gordon Loch, the British Political Agent, Kuwait and Lieutenant Colonel Evelyn Berkeley Howell, the Deputy Civil Commissioner, Basra. The petition from Salih Sasoon Mahlab to the Ruler of Kuwait and the letters exchanged between the Ruler of Kuwait and the British Political Agent at Kuwait are in Arabic.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 19; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.