File 3540/1916 'MESOPOTAMIA 1916-17 PORTION'

Title:

File 3540/1916 'MESOPOTAMIA 1916-17 PORTION'

Date:

1915/1917

Description:

Abstract: The volume comprises mainly printed correspondence, telegrams, summaries, printed reports, notes, receipts, statistical tables, and other papers concerning miscellaneous matters relating to Mesopotamia, including Basra, and also Bahrain.The papers notably cover:The Iraq Occupied Territories code, 1915 (folios 672-722)Notes by Gertrude Bell on the administration of justice, tribal Sayyids, claims for compensation, and the Shia in IraqBahrain and its trade with the Arabian hinterlandThe interests of the Shaikh of Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] and the Shaikh of Kuwait in the Iraq Occupied Territories'Orders for the Trial of Inhabitants of the Country' (folio 182)Attitude of the Basra notables.The principal correspondents are: Percy Zachariah Cox, Chief Political Officer in Charge, Iraq Section; Gertrude Bell, Political Officer; the Officer in Charge, Cairo Section, Eastern Bureau; Director Military Intelligence, Cairo; the General Officer Commanding, Indian Expeditiory Force D; the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, Simla.The volume 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 the 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 inside back cover with 725; 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 4-723; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. There are multiple additional mixed foliation/pagination sequences. There is one foliation anomaly, f 360a.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Occupied territories
Military occupation
Colonial administration
Emir of Mohammerah
Emir of Kuwait

Geographic region:

Basra
Mesopotamia
Bahrain

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000200_ar
81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000200_en
IOR/L/PS/10/617
IOR/L/PS/10/617

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