File 27/3 ‘German Shipping & Trade Competition’

Title:

File 27/3 ‘German Shipping & Trade Competition’

Date:

1906/1916

Description:

Abstract: This file contains correspondence, memoranda reports, telegrams and minutes, regarding the German and Japanese interest in shipping and trade in the Persian Gulf, particularly in Kuwait (also written in some parts of the file as Koweit).The papers notably cover/include the following:The establishment of a passenger/trading service from Europe to the Persian Gulf by the steamship company, Hamburg Amerika [America] Line, and imports by the company’s Persian Gulf branchGerman and Japanese ships at Persian [Iranian] portsThe interest of German firm Messrs Robert Wonckhaus and Company in Basra, and details of the Ruler of Kuwait having been approached by the same companyReports of German trade shipping and details of items purchased (e.g. Barley), reportedly at a lossA report of a broker selling firearms in Bahrein [Bahrain]Details relating to the Baghdad RailwayThe movements of German merchants in the Gulf during 1916The presence of a Japanese merchant, suspected to be an employee of the trading company Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, at ports in the GulfThe operations of Messrs Robert Wonckhaus and Company in Kuwait.The volume comprises internal correspondence between British officials of different departments. The principal correspondents are: Stuart George Knox, Political Agent at Kuwait; and Sir Percy Cox, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire [Bushehr].Physical description: Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 106; 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 2-105; these numbers are written in pencil, and are circled. Another foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 3-47; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.Both of the previous foliation sequences have been superseded and therefore crossed out.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Shipping
Trade (practice)
Hamburg America Line
Robert Wönckhaus and Company

Geographic region:

Persian Gulf

Rights:

المُلكية العامة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000831.0x000019_ar
81055/vdc_100000000831.0x000019_en
IOR/R/15/5/78
IOR/R/15/5/78

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