Abstract: This file contains correspondence between the British Political Agent at Bahrain and the British Political Resident at Bushire, as well as with E V Packer, Manager of Petroleum Concessions Limited, and Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī of Qatar. Also included within this file are correspondence between the Director of the Bahrain Customs and Port Authority, Gray, Mackenzie and Company Limited, and Messrs. Folsom Arms Co. of New York.These correspondence concern gifts of arms to the Sheikh of Qatar by E V Packer and Petroleum Concessions Limited in 1938, and by Winthrop Rockefeller in 1940 following his visit to Bahrain and Qatar.Physical description: Foliation: This file has a foliation number on the front top right hand corner of each page. The number is uncircled.
Abstract: This file contains correspondence between the British Political Agent at Bahrain with the British Political Resident at Bushire, and later Bahrain, and Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Bahrain Government.These correspondence concern the requests by Belgrave for No Objection Certificates for the purchase and importation of arms and ammunitions, as well as related spare parts and tools, into Bahrain for the State Police, supplied by both Indian and British companies, including Messrs. Taher Arms Stores, Bombay, and Messrs. Parker Hale Limited, Birmingham.Physical description: Foliation: This file has a foliation number on the front top right hand corner of each page. The number is uncircled.
Abstract: This file contains correspondence between Hugh Weightman, the British Political Agent in Bahrain, with Samuel Burnside B McElderry, Chief Secretary to the Government of Zanzibar, and Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Bahrain Government. These correspondence concern the control of importation of lethal weapons (for example, swords, spears and daggers) into Zanzibar and the implementation of a restriction to one sword for any individual entering the Protectorate. Included within these correspondence are copies of a 'Notice by the Zanzibar Government' in English and Arabic, signed by Anthony Ilex Sheringham, Commissioner of Police, proclaiming this new restriction.Physical description: Foliation: This file has a foliation number on the front top right hand corner of each page. The number is uncircled.
Abstract: This file contains correspondence between Thomas Hickinbotham, British Political Agent in Bahrain, and various local
nākhudās(dhow boat captains), as well as with Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Bahrain Government. These correspondence concern the requests of various nakhudas for permission to carry arms and ammunition for self-defence on board their dhow boats.Physical description: Foliation: This file has a foliation number on the front top right hand corner of each page. The number is uncircled.
Abstract: The volume contains correspondence relating to arms trafficking and slavery in the Persian Gulf. Correspondence regarding arms trafficking takes up a small proportion of the file. It includes a printed copy of the British Government's Convention for the Control of the Trade in Arms and Ammunition, dated 10 September 1919 (ff 6-23), and correspondence exchanged in March 1923 between the Political Resident (Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Trevor) and the Bahrain Political Agent (Captain Clive Daly), discussing an apparent increase in the numbers of arms being traded into Arabia (ff 24-28).The majority of the file is dedicated to specific instances of slave trading in the region. A significant portion of the file is comprised of correspondence related to the import of five Armenian women from Kuwait to Qatar via Bahrain in 1924 (from f 31 onwards). Copies and return correspondence on this subject can be found in the Bushire Residency file '5/193 I (B23) Slavery in the Gulf' (IOR/R/15/1/225), but the items in this volume provide greater detail of the role played in the matter by the Bahrain Political Agent (Daly) and the American Mission in Bahrain in the recovery and questioning of the Armenian women, as well as details of how and where each of the women were traded (ff 101-104).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 177; 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.The sequence includes four foliation anomalies, ff 1a, 63a, 63b and 99a.
Abstract: The file contains telegrams related to the sale of ten Auster aircraft by the Government of India to the Government of Iraq; communication between the Indian and Iraqi governments is facilitated by the British Embassy in Baghdad. The file documents a delay in the release of these aircraft as a result of a United Nations Security Council Resolution to prohibit the import of war materials into Palestine, and the eventual decision by the Government of India to release the aircraft in January 1949.The main correspondents are as follows: the UK High Commissioner in India, HM Ambassador to Iraq (Sir William Henry Bradshaw Mack), officials of the Commonwealth Relations Office, and officials of the Foreign Office.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 36; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file contains correspondence between H G Jakins, British Political Agent in Bahrain, and R M Brown, Chief Local Representative of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), as well as with Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Bahrain Government, G W R Smith, Acting Adviser to the Bahrain Government, and the British Gulf Residency in Bahrain. These correspondence include BAPCO's 1949 request for certification for the import and possession of arms for their European Guards who transfer cash from Manama banks to their headquarters at Awali.Physical description: Foliation: This file has a foliation number on the front top right hand corner or top centre of each page. The number is enclosed in a circle.
Abstract: Part 4 contains correspondence relating to British garrisons at Robat and Kacha. The correspondence is between the Foreign Department of the Government of India, the Viceroy of India, the Foreign Office, and the India Office. Included as enclosures are letters and telegrams from the following:War Office;Secretary to the Treasury, London;British Consul for Seistan [Sīstān] and Kain;Indo-European Telegraph Departments;Political Agent, Chagai;Agent to Governor-General and Chief Commissioner in Baluchistan.The papers cover several matters, including:the question of whether the Imperial or Indian treasuries are responsible for the cost of the garrisons at Robat and Kacha;the need to reinforce garrisons owing to the arms traffic between the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan;plans to strengthen the Consulate in Seistan;plans to improve quarters at Robat;the regular relief of detachments serving at Robat and Kacha between 1911 and 1914.Folios 98-103 contain architectural plans for improvements at the Seistan Consulate.Physical description: 1 item (160 folios)
Abstract: Papers regarding the drafting and implementation of the Maskat [Muscat] Order in Council of 1915, and subsequent additional regulations.Papers dated 1913-1915 comprise correspondence between the India Office Political Department, the Foreign Office, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Political Agent at Muscat. Also included are annotated drafts of the Order in Council, at folios 164-181, 195-213, and 218-236, plus the final text at folios 136-150.Papers dated 1916-1930 comprise reports by the Political Agent, Muscat, on the working of the Muscat Order in Council, for the years 1916-1929. The file also contains correspondence regarding: the possible introduction of a regulation to punish breaches of the Arms Traffic Regulations and other edicts of the Sultan of Muscat, committed by British subjects; Rules of Court relating to fees under the Order in Council; and the application of the Indian Succession Act of 1925. A copy of the Muscat Rules of Court can be found at folios 20-23.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 239; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: Part 2 of the file relates to future policy questions, in particular Britain's presence in the Dthala [al-Ḍāli‘] (sometimes written as Dthali) region.The correspondents include:Major-General Ernest de Brath, Political Resident at Aden;Government of India, Simla;Government of Bombay;India Office, London;Foreign Office, London.The correspondence discusses several matters relating to British policy in the Aden hinterland, including:the murder of a postal runner near Sheikh Othman;the deployment of a Political Officer at Dthala;the withdrawal of all British troops and officers from Dthala;arms traffic in the hinterland;an extension of the railway into the hinterland.The discussion is framed by the wider imperial policy of non-interference.Folio 369 is a map entitled 'The Tribes and New Boundary of the Aden Protectorate'.Physical description: 1 item (113 folios)
Abstract: The volume discusses the arms trade at Muscat and attempts by the British Government and the Sultan of Muscat to prohibit it; also included are reports and discussions from the Conference on Arms Traffic which was being held in Brussels in 1909 at the same time as the discussions in the volume.Included in the volume is correspondence with the French Consul at Muscat (Lucien-Ernest-Roger Laronce, and Charles Céleste Albert Jeannier) and representatives of the Government of France regarding both the need for French co-operation to enforce the prohibition, and suspicions that French merchants at Muscat were involved in the trade.The later correspondence discusses the following: a proposal made by the French Government that would have seen the Gambia being given by Britain to France; the decision by the French Government to attempt to end the arms trade in Jibuti [Djibuti]; and reports on the work of British naval authorities to stop vessels in the Persian Gulf and seize arms and ammunition.The principal correspondents for the British Government include the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Percy Zachariah Cox); the Political Agent and Consul at Maskat [Muscat] (William George Grey, Robert Erskine Holland, and Arthur Prescott Trevor); the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department (Sir Louis William Dane, and Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler); the Naval Commander-in-Chief for the East Indies Station (Sir Edmund Samuel Poe, and Edmond John Warre Slade); the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey); the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Victor Alexander Bruce, Lord Elgin); the British Ambassador to France (Sir Francis Leveson Bertie, 1st Viscount Bertie of Thame), and representatives of the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office, and the India Office.This volume is part 1 of 10. 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 main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 484; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Two mixed foliation/pagination sequences are present in parallel between ff 229-242 and ff 258-270 respectively; these numbers are written in blue crayon.The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
Abstract: The volume discusses an alleged arms trafficking incident which occurred in December 1908. The
El Khadra, a dhow owned by Mubarak bin Khamis, a subject of Muscat, was seized by Italian authorities off the coast of Ras Hafun [Raas Xaafuun] on charges of arms trafficking.The volume includes the negotiations between the British and Italian Governments to find an acceptable resolution to the situation. A settlement was reached and the boat returned to its owner in July 1911.The principal correspondents in the volume include the Political Agent and Consul at Muscat (Robert Erskine Holland, and Arthur Prescott Trevor); the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Percy Zachariah Cox); the Viceroy of India (Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto); the Italian Agent at Muscat (Umberto Omar); the Italian Vice-Consul at Aden (Renato Piacentini); the British Ambassador to the Court of Italy (Sir James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell); the Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey) and India (Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe); and the Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs (Tommaso Tittoni, Guido Fusinato, and Antonino Paternò-Castello, marchese di San Giuliano).This is part 2 of 10. 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 main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 398; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.The front cover, along with one leading flyleaf, has not been foliated. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.