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193. Coll 30/9(2) 'Admin. Reports of the Persian Gulf - 1945 -'
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- Abstract: This file consists of copies of the annual 'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf' prepared by the Political Residency in Bushire for the years 1939-1945.These annual reports are divided up into a number of separate reports for different geographical areas, usually as follows:Administration Report for Bushire AreaAdministration Report for Kerman & YazdAdministration Report for Bandar AbbasAdministration Report for Kuwait AgencyAdministration Report for Bahrain AgencyAdministration Report for Political Agency, MuscatAdministration Report for Trucial CoastAdministration Report for Khorramshahr ConsulateThese separate reports are themselves broken down into a number of sub-sections that vary according to each report, but include the following topics:PersonnelVisitorsForeign RepresentativesBritish InterestsLocal AdministrationTransportEducationMilitaryAviationPolitical SituationTradeMedicalMeteorologicalThe reports are all introduced by a short review of the year written by the Political Resident.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 574; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 1-571; these numbers are written in pencil or crayon and, where circled, are crossed through.
194. Coll 25/14 'Orders in Council: Koweit: New Order'
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- Abstract: Correspondence (copies, drafts, and originals), memoranda, and notes concerning the drafting and issuing of The Kuwait Order in Council, 1935. The papers deal with the discussion of the need for a new order in council because of the growth of the oil industry and the likely increase of foreigners in the country, the wording of the new document, and the effort to obtain the consent of the ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmed [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ].The correspondence is mostly inter-departmental in nature, exchanged between officials at the Foreign Office, India Office, Government of India (Foreign and Political Department), Colonial Office, and Board of Trade (Companies Department), but the file also includes communications from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Political Agent in Kuwait, and Shaikh Ahmed of Kuwait.Included in the file:Extracts from The Ethiopia Order in Council, 1931, used as reference (folios 165-71)A certified copy of the new Kuwait Order in Council, 1935 (folios 35-50)Correspondence concerning the passing of the Kuwait Passport Regulation, 1947 (folios 3-11).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 264; 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 189-193; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
195. Coll 25/14(1) 'Orders-in-Council: Special Police Officers Regulations Koweit 1948'
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- Abstract: Correspondence relating to the need for and issuing of 'The Special Police Officers regulation, 1947', under the articles of The Kuwait Order in Council, 1935. The regulation gave the Political Agent in Kuwait the power to appoint special police officers to deal with incidents involving those subject to the jurisdiction of the Order in Council. It was largely a response to an influx of American labour employed by the oil companies.The correspondence is between officials at the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Commonwealth Relations Office, and Foreign Office. A copy of the regulation is on folio 4.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 16; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
196. File 10/5 I Saudi Arabia: Hasa Oil Concession; visit of Major Holmes to Saudi Arabia; Kuwait blockade.
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- Abstract: The volume contains correspondence between the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in London, the Political Resident in Bushire and the Political Agent in Bahrain on the Hasa oil concession in Saudi Arabia, the negotiations of the Standard Oil Company of California for the oil concession in Hasa and the visit of Major Frank Holmes to Riyadh to meet Ibn Saud.The volume includes correspondence on the Saudi blockade against Kuwait, two copies of the Hasa oil agreement between the Standard Oil Company of California and the Saudi Arab Kingdom (folios 52-68 and 87-102) and correspondence on the application of the Standard Oil Company of California for permission to fly from Basra to Bahrain, which encountered resistence of the Political Resident in Bushire, against the presence of American companies in Bahrain (folios 121-123 and following).There is an index at the end of the volume (folios 212-223).Physical description: The foliation is written in pencil in the top right corner (between 44-82 the numbering can be found at the top centre of the recto). The numbering begins on the first page of text which follows 4 blank pages and terminates on the 5th folio from the back; at the rear of the volume there are 4 blank pages. Foliation errors: 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d and 1e; 29, 29a and 29b; 137A and 137B; 159A and 159B; 169A and 169B; 171A and 171B; 179A and 179B.
197. File 1855/1904 Pt 3-4 'Koweit'
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- Abstract: The volume contains parts 3 and 4 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait].Part 3 (IOR/L/PS/10/48/1) concerns the grant of a lease in October 1907 by the Shaikh of Kuwait [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] to the British Government of land on the foreshore of Kuwait at Bunder Shweikh [Bandar Shawaykh].Part 4 (IOR/L/PS/10/48/2) concerns the payment of loans to the Shaikh of Kuwait by the Government of India, 1904-1914.Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 268; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the three leading and ending flyleaves.
198. File 2877/1914 'Persian Gulf and Mesopotamia: survey operations of RIMS Palinurus'
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- Abstract: The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the survey of the Persian Gulf by RIMS Palinurus.The discussion in the volume relates to the objectives, route, and associated costs of the survey of the Persian Gulf.Further discussion surrounds the temporary administration of Basrah and proposed preliminary examination of irrigation projects, as well as Sir George William Buchanan's proposals for improving navigation of the Tigris river. The volume contains seven maps.The principal correspondents in the volume are: the Director of the Royal Indian Marine Department; the Under Secretary of State for India, India Office; the Hydrographic Department, Admiralty; the Government of India, Marine Department; the General Officer Commanding, Force 'D', Basrah; the Chief of the General Staff, Simla.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at last folio with 252; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers; nor does it include the two leading and ending flyleaves.An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 23-248; these numbers are also written in pencil and circled, but are crossed through.
199. File 339/1905 ‘Koweit: - Political Agency. Expenditure. Steam Launch’
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- Abstract: The main contents of the volume are exchanges of letters about government expenditure on the Kuwait Political Agency, primarily between British officials at the Foreign Office, India Office and Treasury in London and Government of India officials at the Foreign Department in Calcutta and Simla. They discuss cost estimates and actual expenditure in relation to the approval of Government of India proposals for the expansion of the cadre of the Indian Political Department in order to fill Consular posts in Persia, 1904-1905 and 1909; the establishment of a new Political Agency at Kuwait (spelt Koweit), 1904-1907 and the purchase of the steam launch Lewis Pelly, built at the Government Dockyard in Bombay, for the use of the Political Agent at Kuwait, 1906-1907, 1909-1912 and 1914. The volume also contains a sea chart of Kuwait Port, by the Marine Survey of India in 1905.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 182; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
200. File 451/1913 Pt 1-2 'Koweit and Bahrein: Oil Deposits. Water Supply.'
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- Abstract: This volume comprises two parts that contain correspondence pertaining to two distinct topics.Part one discusses the possibility of discovering oil deposits in Koweit [Kuwait] and Bahrein [Bahrain], with some reference also made to the potential for deposits to be found in Syria and the Farsan Isles [Farasan Islands]. Part two concerns the provision of a permanent water supply in Koweit [Kuwait].Both parts consist primarily of correspondence between British officials, principally at the India Office, the Foreign Office and the Government of India.The volume comprises part 1 and 2. Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, year the subject file was opened, subject heading, and list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 451 (Koweit and Bahrein) consists of one volume, IOR/L/PS/10/339. The volume is divided into 2 parts, with parts 1 and 2 comprising one volume.
201. File 1407/1918 'Kowait Trade Reports. (1911-1930)'
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- Abstract: The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the Kuwait trade reports for the years 1912-1930.The printed reports cover the period 1 April to 31 March and follow a similar format: a general narrative and sections on imports, exports, customs administration and lighterage, freight, shipping and navigation, sea fisheries, boat building, labour, minerals, domestic animals, agriculture, rainfall, public health, exchange rates and weights.Also included are statistical tables showing total imports and total exports by country. Further tables show total imports and exports of principal articles and by sailing craft and steamers and by quantity and value.Principal articles listed for imports include anchors, animals, arms and ammunition, barley, bamboos, cars, carpets, building materials, charcoal, coal, fruits, firewood, furniture, glass, goat hair, gunny bags, ironware, marine stores, oil products, petroleum, potatoes, rice, sail cloth, tobacco, and wood.Tables for export of principal articles (by buggalows and steamers) list the item and the country to which it is exported. These include animals (to India), barley (to Muscat and Germany), and shark-fins (to India). Export destinations listed include India, Bahrain, Muscat, Germany, the Persian Coast, and Turkish Arabia.Many of the reports include a map of Kuwait (folios 32, 54, 76, 95, 117, 145, 161, and 198).The report is sent by the Political Agent, Kuwait, to the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department and then forwarded to the Permanent-Secretary, Political Department, India Office, London. Covering minute papers of the Secret Department note the year of the report and sometimes also give a viewpoint.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 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 370; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
202. File 1749/1921 ‘Persian Gulf:- Residency news summaries 1921-25’
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- Abstract: This volume mainly contains copies of printed monthly summaries of news (Bushire Residency Diary entries) received by the British Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, and India Office Political Department minute papers prefacing and commenting on the news summaries.The news summaries cover the period January 1921 to December 1925 (there is no summary for February 1921). Summaries from January 1925 to July 1925 cover fortnightly rather than monthly periods. The summaries were compiled by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Prescott Trevor, Acting Political Resident in the Persian Gulf Stuart George Knox, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Beville Prideaux, and Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Gilbert Crosthwaite, respectively).The summaries cover areas in Persia [Iran] including: Mohammerah [Khorramshahr], Dizful [Dezful], Ahwaz [Ahvāz], Ispahan (Isfahan), Shiraz, Behbehan [Behbahān], Bushire, Bunder Abbas [Bandar Abbas], Kerman, Mekran [Makran], Shushtar, Bakhtiari, and Lingah. They also cover Muscat, the Trucial Coast, Bahrain, and Kuwait.The summaries cover various subjects, including: movements of British officials, Persian Officials, non-officials, and foreigners; health; Persian ports; arms traffic; military affairs; the Anglo-Persian Oil Company; the Shaikh of Mohammerah; and roads.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 year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 237; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
203. File 2794/1921 Pt 15 'Oil. Koweit Neutral Zone. On concessions in.'
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- Abstract: The volume concerns correspondence and records of meetings to discuss questions relating to oil in the Persian Gulf, including Kuwait and the Kuwait Neutral Zone, and also Bahrain and Qatar. This includes discussion of the history and status of the Neutral Zone between Nejd and Koweit [Kuwait] and its relationship to the Iraq Petroleum Company Group Agreement of 1928. Also discussed in the correspondence are the interests of the Arabian Development Syndicate and Standard Oil of California.Documents included in the volume are:(ff 227-244) a printed draft of an agreement between the Government of Saudi Arabia and the Ruler of Kuwait(ff 399-406) 'Note of interview with Mr Janson and Major Holmes on Friday, 2nd February 1934'(ff 299-301) 'Note of conversation with Mr. Lefroy of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company on 20th April 1934, regarding the Koweit Neutral Zone'(ff 263-266) Letter in Arabic with translations from Ibn Saud to Abdul-Ghani Adlibia map (folio 245) showing Kuwait and the neutral zone.Correspondents include: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle); the Secretary of State for the Colonies; the Secretary of State for India; the Political Agent, Kuwait (H.R.P. Dickson); and Abdul Aziz bin Abdur Rahman Al Faisal (Ibn Saud).The file 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 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 490; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
204. File 2794/1921 Pt 3B 'Persian Gulf: oil; Kuwait'
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- Abstract: The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports and notes relating to the development of oil concessions in Kuwait.The discussion in the volume relates to:A proposed visit by the Shaikh of Kuwait to the Anglo-Persian oilfields (ff 488-492)A report (ff 447-487) of the Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East, Committee of Imperial Defence on the Kuwait oil concessionThe attitude of the Shaikh towards the Eastern and General SyndicateA visit of the Ruler of Kuwait to England as guest of the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited including discussions concerning arrangements for a meeting with the KingDraft agreements for an oil concession between Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, Ruler of Kuwait, and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.Included in the volume is a report (ff 430-433) by the Political Agent, Kuwait (Harold Dickson) of the views of Major Frank Holmes, Eastern and General Syndicate Limited, on the possibility of oil being found in Kuwait, Bahrain and the Gulf generally.The principal correspondents include: the Political Agent, Kuwait; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Colonial Office, London; the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; officials of the Petroleum Department; the General-Manager, Anglo-Persian Oil Company (Edward Henry Omanney); and the Ruler of Kuwait (Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ).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 year. This is placed at the back of correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 498; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.