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49. Coll 5/65 ‘ESTABLISHMENT OF AN AIR ATTACHE KABUL & LOAN OF AIR PERSONNEL TO AFGHAN GOVNT’
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- Abstract: The file is predominantly concerned with plans for the supervision of Royal Air Force (RAF) personnel working for the Afghan Air Force at Kabul. This includes the drafting of a directive for Wing Commander P A McWhannel, the Air Adviser attached to the UK High Commission to Pakistan at Karachi, outlining the responsibilities he is to assume over the aforementioned personnel. The file also contains an application from McWhannel for an aircraft to be made available to facilitate regular visits to Kabul: see folios 12-15.Another significant topic covered by the file is a request from the Government of Pakistan for a copy of a plan for the expansion of the Afghan Air Force; the Air Ministry had prepared a plan for the expansion of the Afghan Air Force at the request of the Afghan Government. A copy of an abridged version of this plan is included in the file: see folios 52-66.A report by Wing Commander A R L Griffiths on his visit to Afghanistan (24-28 May 1948) has also been filed: see folios 88-93. This reports on the Afghan Air Force and the role of RAF personnel. It also tackles the question of supplying an aircraft for the use of the Air Adviser at Karachi.The main correspondents are: HM Minister/Ambassador at Kabul (Giles Frederick Squire), the UK High Commissioner to Pakistan (Sir Laurence Barton Grafftey-Smith), officials of the Air Ministry, officials of the Commonwealth Relations Office, and officials of the Foreign Office.On the inside front cover can be found a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 129; 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in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
50. Coll 5/82 ‘Facilities for U.S. Transport Corps at Sharjah; Posting of U.S. Provost Personnel for & maintenance of Discipline’
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- Abstract: The file contains a small number of papers related to a suggestion, made by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf in a telegram dated 15 August 1944 (folio 11), for the appointment of Provost (military police) personnel to maintain discipline among the increasing number of United States Army Air Force (USAAF) personnel at Sharjah.The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 13; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
51. File 90/1913 Pt 1 'Persia and Persian Gulf: Reductions in expenditure on Agencies and Consulates'
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- Abstract: Part 1 contains documents from the Foreign Department of the Government of India, and correspondence between: the India Office, the Foreign Office, the Secretary of State for India, the British Consul for Seistan [Sīstān] and Kain, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, regarding the reduction of expenditure on British Consular establishments in Persia and at the Consulate at Baghdad.The subjects are:a proposal to reduce the Consulate at Turbat-i-Haidari [Torbat-e Heydarieh, Iran] to the status of a Native Agency;a reduction of staff and expenditure in the Seistan and Kain Consulate;the costs of expenditure of British Consular establishments in Persia;the reduction of expenditure on Agencies and Consulates under the Bushire Residency;a proposed increase of staff and office allowance of the Bahrain Political Agency;the disposal of unexpended balances of office allowances;a revision of the fixed travelling allowance allotments of the Persian Gulf Residency.Physical description: 1 item (190 folios)
52. File 4097/1914 Pt 3 'Mesopotamia: administration; personnel; military officers appointed to civil administration'
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- Abstract: This volume contains requests for skilled personnel from British civil and military authorities in newly occupied territory in Iraq written between 1916 and 1920, to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Government of India. The papers primarily consist of letters from Basra or Baghdad requesting the secondment or requisition of staff to Iraq from India. The letters discuss the various roles required as well as their pay and tenure. The roles range from police superintendents to postal clerks, police officers, medical staff and a range of other military personnel.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 348; 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.
53. File 2908/1907 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf: Quarantine’
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- Abstract: The volume contains part one of the subject file 2908/1907 Persian Gulf: Quarantine. This part contains papers regarding proposals for the improvement of the Persian Gulf Quarantine Service. It therefore contains discussion between British officials over the provision of finance, personnel, and equipment to facilitate improvements. The supply of stoves (for Jask, Bundar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās], Lingah [Bandar-e-Lengeh], Mohammerah, Bushire, and Bahrain) and a Clayton disinfection apparatus by the Government of India accounts for a significant amount of correspondence. Some discussion surrounding possible threats to British control of the Quarantine service can also be found in the file.Printed copies of the minutes of the Sanitary Council for the Empire of Persia are included for the meetings: 29 June 1907 (folios 141-143), 5 August 1907 (folios 144-145), 2 September 1907 (folios 133-135), 4 November 1907 (folios 81-83), and 2 December 1907 (folios 84-86). These documents are written in French. A note from Dr Jean-Etienne Justin Schneider, President of the Sanitation Council, on proposed improvements to the Quarantine Service can be found on folio 196-198. This note is also in French.Printed copies of telegrams regarding a plague outbreak in Bahrain in 1907 can be found between folios 183-187.Towards the front of the file are a small number of papers related to a proposal to withdraw the mobile assistant medical officer – posted to Bushire under the improvement programme – from the Persian Gulf in 1909.The main correspondents are as follows: the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey), HM Minister at Tehran (Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice), the Chargé d'affaires at Tehran (Charles Murray Marling), the Under-Secretary of State for India (Arthur Godley), and officials from the Foreign Office (Louis Mallet and Sir Walter Langley). Occasional reference is also made to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Major Percy Zachariah Cox) and the Government of India.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 (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 255; 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.
54. File 5015/1919 Pt 1 'Persia: Appointment of Financial Adviser'
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- Abstract: This item comprises: deciphered telegrams; correspondence; India Office Political Department registry forms with subject and notes; and covering letters of the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India. The primary correspondents are Sir Percy Cox [Acting Minister] in Tehran, and the Foreign Office.The papers relate to the appointment by the British Government of a Financial Advisor to the Persian [Iranian] Government, based on the provisions of the ‘Agreement between His Britannic Majesty’s Government and the Persian Government’, signed at Tehran, 9 August 1919 (ff 294-295), including:The agreement of Sir Percy Cox, the Foreign Office and the Government of India for the appointment of H W Maclean (Imperial Bank of Persia) as Financial Adviser to the Persian GovernmentThe objection of the Persian Minister to Cox’s proposal of MacleanThe selection of an alternative candidate, Sydney Armitage Smith, suggested by the TreasuryArmitage-Smith’s duties, including a copy of his contract of service (in French) with the Persian Government (ff 260-261)Clarification of the Financial Adviser’s powers with regard to customs administration, including eventual inclusion of customs tariff revisionNotification of the arrival of Armitage Smith in Baghdad and his departure for Persia on 11 April.Physical description: 1 item (47 folios)
55. File 5015/1919 Pt 2 'Persia: Appointment of Experts for Revision of Tariff'
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- Abstract: This item comprises: correspondence; deciphered telegrams; India Office Political Department registry forms with subject and notes; India Office draft telegrams, draft letters and notes; and covering letters of the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India.The papers relate to the nomination of British representatives to serve on the Joint Anglo-Persian [Iranian] Committee for the examination and revision of the [Anglo]-Persian Customs Tariff, including:The recommendation by Sir Percy Cox [Acting Minister] in Tehran, of C R Watkins, CIE, Indian Civil Service, then Chief Collector of Customs, Mesopotamia [Iraq]The recommendation by the Board of Trade of Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith (then in India) and his assistant Thomas Martland Ainscough, and the agreement of the Foreign Office and CoxCandidates suggested by the Government of India, including James Algernon Stevens, Collector of Customs, Rangoon [Yangon], Arthur Herbert Ley, Secretary to Government of India, Commerce and Industry Department, and Arthur Cecil McWatters, Secretary to the Secretariat Committee, Indian Civil Service (only McWatters was appointed)Candidates suggested by the Civil Commissioner Baghdad, including M M S Gubbay, Controller of Currency India, S S B Dantur, Collector of Customs (then on the Currency Commission in London), and Major Reader William Bullard, CIE, Levant Consular Service (only Bullard was appointed)Discussion regarding the apportionment of the costs of the British delegationThe salaries and allowances of Committee appointees Watkins, Bullard and McWatters.The principal correspondents are: the Board of Trade, Commercial Relations and Treaties Department; the Foreign Office; Sir Percy Cox; the India Office; the Civil Commissioner Baghdad; and the Viceroy of India. Note that there is some overlap of early correspondence with IOR/L/PS/10/856/1.Physical description: 1 item (90 folios)