File 3104/1915 Pt 10 ‘Mesopotamia: Trade with; liquidation of enemy assets &c; claims against enemy assets’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- File 3104/1915 Pt 10 ‘Mesopotamia: Trade with; liquidation of enemy assets &c; claims against enemy assets’
- Date:
- 1918/1922
- Description:
- Abstract: Part 10 comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the return or disposal of enemy (Turkish or German) property and other assets in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and the Persian Gulf at the end of the First World War. The volume includes: an enquiry from the Hamburg firm Robert Wönckhaus & Company, which had offices in various places in the Persian Gulf, including Bahrain, regarding the liquidation of their assets in the Gulf, and the nature of Britain’s jurisdiction in Bahrain; an enquiry from the US ambassador in London on the nature of British jurisdiction in Bahrain, and regulations pertaining to the import of narcotics into Bahrain; statements of balances and details of those firms whose assets were in the hands of the Department of the Controller of Hostile Trading Concerns in Mesopotamia; a printed copy of the India Treaty of Peace Order in Council, dated 28 June 1920 (ff 40-53); the liquidation of enemy property in territories covered by the Persian Gulf Order in Council of 1907.The principal correspondents are: the India Office; the Foreign Office; the Department of the Controller of Hostile Trading Concerns in Mesopotamia; the Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia, Arthur Talbot Wilson.The part contains a single item of correspondence in French (f 127).Physical description: The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the item.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- War seizures
Jurisdiction
Robert Wönckhaus and Company - Geographic region:
- Bahrain islands
- Rights:
- غير معروف
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100076920559.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100076920559.0x000001_en
IOR/L/PS/10/572/2
IOR/L/PS/10/572/2