File 390/1917 Pt 1 ‘Persia: proceedings of Mr. Otto Brandley, representative of the Oriental Carpet Manufacturers in Kerman’
Date:
1915/1918
Description:
Abstract: This part contains correspondence and India Office minute papers mostly concerning whether the Swiss subject Otto Brandly (also spelled Brandley in the papers), who was suspected by the British Government of having pro-German sympathies, should be allowed return to Persia [Iran], as a representative of the Oriental Carpet Manufacturers in Kerman [Kirmān].This part also includes correspondence regarding the claim of the Oriental Carpet Manufacturers, Limited, against the Persian and German Governments for confiscation of their property at Kerman.The main correspondents are as follows: the India Office; the Government of India Foreign and Political Department; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Oriental Carpet Manufacturers, Limited; the Foreign Office; Charles Murray Marling, HM Minister, Tehran; and the War Office.This part includes a copy of a telegram in French from Otto Brandly to President Motta, Berne, dated Kerman 22 May 1915 (folio 240).Physical description: 1 item (126 folios)