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1. Coll 25/2 'Orders in Council: China (Kashgar) Order in Council; Reports on operation 1929-; King's Regulation No. 1 of 1931'
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- Abstract: Short annual reports on the workings of the China (Kashgar) Order-in-Council 1920 and 1935 for the years 1929-42. The reports contain information on the civil and criminal cases tried and the numbers of British subjects and British protected persons registered during each year.The reports were sent by the Consul General, Kashgar, to the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign and Political Department, New Delhi, from where they were forwarded to the Political Department of the India Office, London.In addition the file contains correspondence (drafts, copies, and originals) between these three offices and the Foreign Office that concerns the following matters in connection with the working of the Order-in-Council:The prohibition under the provisions of the Order-in-Council of two British Indian subjects from being within the limits of the Kashgar consular district for opium dealingThe request, in April 1931, for the authority to repeal certain regulations made under the Order-in-CouncilThe question of the correct channels to use when corresponding about such matters.Also contained in the file are the following:A copy of the China (Kashgar) Order-in-Council, 1920 (folios 114-125)Extracts from reports on Sir Eric Teichman's mission to Sinkiang to investigate the sharp increase in the number of British subjects being registered there, dated 4 December 1935 (folios 37-41).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 139; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
2. Coll 25/5 'Orders in Council: China (Kashgar); Court fees in civil appeal cases relating to Kashgar'
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- Abstract: Correspondence concerning the payment of court fees within the limits of the China (Kashgar) Order in Council, 1920. The correspondence is between officials at the Government of India (Foreign and Political Department), Foreign Office, the Governments of Bombay and Punjab, the Consul General at Kashgar, and the British Embassy in Peking.The papers include minutes, draft letters, and copies of various legislation. Matters dealt with by the correspondence include:The question of whether Indian court fees are leviable on cases tried in Kashgar, including the amendment to the Kashgar Order in Council to provide for the application of the Indian Court Fees Act, 1870, to KashgarAmendments to the Order in Council to provide for the payment of court fees in rupees, rather than the Kashgar Tael.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 243; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
3. Coll 7/12 'Chinese Turkestan; import of arms via India'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence regarding requests for arms and ammunition received by the Government of India from the Government at Sinkiang Province [Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu]. The principal correspondents are the Government of India Foreign and Political Department, the India Office Political Department, HM Consulate-General at Kashgar [Kashi], and Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Charles Francis Schomberg. There are also a small number of letters received from Chinese officials, comprising: Pan Tsi-Lu, an Agent of the Governor of Sinkiang in Kashgar; the Peking Representative of the Sinkiang Provincial Government; and the Ministry of War.The following topics are discussed in the correspondence dated 1932-1933: the initial approach to purchase mining machinery, aeroplanes and munitions from the Government of India or from British companies; further orders from Switzerland and Germany; arrangements for transporting materials to Sinkiang via India; negotiations to purchase arms and ammunition from Vickers-Armstrongs Limited; and the position of the Government of India with regard to the embargo on providing arms to China or Japan. Quotations from Vickers-Armstrongs can be found at folios 47-54, and 65-68.The file contains several letters from Lieutenant-Colonel Schomberg, discussing: his role as an intermediary between the Government at Sinkiang and the Government of India; the reluctance of Chinese officials to deal with the Consulate-General at Kashgar (Nicholas Fitzmaurice); the difficulties he faced as a result of his unofficial position; Russian influence at Urumchi [Urumqi] and in East Turkestan; and his views on the Government of India's diplomatic policy.At the front of the file is a small quantity of correspondence dated 1937, regarding a request for arms and ammunition received from the Tungan [Dungan or Hui] Government at Sinkiang. This includes discussion of the position of neutrality to be adopted towards Southern Sinkiang, the need to obtain permission from the Central Government at Nanking, and the possible application of the Barcelona Convention on the Freedom of Transit (1921).The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references found within the file by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 2).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio 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.
4. Notes and correspondence on the situation in East Persia and the Malleson Mission
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- Abstract: This file relates to the situation in East Persia and the Malleson Mission (1918-21). It includes papers on the following subjects:A collection of papers titled 'Expenditure on [the] Malleson Mission and Troops in East Persia', including: a memorandum from the India Office Political Department on planned politico-military missions to Kashgar [Qashqar] and Meshed [Mashhad] to 'work in allied interests [,] and combat German and Turkish propaganda' on the model of General Lionel Dunsterville's organisation Dunsterforce, previously deployed to the North Caucasus; a memorandum by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on which government department should bear the expenses for Malleson's Mission in countering 'German-Bolshevik developments in Central Asia', with reflections on the German promotion of Pan-Turanism and Pan-Islamism which, together with Bolshevism were perceived as posing a 'direct menace' to the security of India, since they could conceivably 'enlist the forces of religion in the armies of political and social discontent'; correspondence to date between the India Office, HM Treasury and the War Office (including from Secretary of State for War, Winston S Churchill) concerning the Chancellor's memorandum, together with thirty-two appendices on expenditures preceding the Chancellor's memorandum and the military and political telegrams referred to in the collection on 'Expenditures' (January 1921); the lack of financial resources to continue the Malleson Mission in Trans-Caspia (December 1918); the criticism by Lovat Fraser of expenditures on the Mission in the Daily Mail(July 1920); the assumption of the Mission's current roles to 'encourage resistance in Persia to Pan-Islamic and Bolshevik influences' and offer 'moral support to Transcaspians by threatening [the] flank and rear of [the] Bolshevik advance towards Krasnovodsk [Turkmenbashi]' by a 'Persian Force to be raised under the terms of the recent agreement', together with the existing Seistan Levy Corps and Khorasan Levy Corps, and the 'intelligence work' to be carried out by a 'small organisation' based at Meshed (September 1919).Physical description: The foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 35; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.