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13. File 161/1908 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf:- Abu Musa Oxide.'
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- Abstract: The volume concerns the disputed concession for the mining of red oxide on the island of Abu Musa [Abū Mūsá].The main correspondents are senior officials of the Foreign Office and the India Office; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Major Percy Zachariah Cox); and the Viceroy. The papers cover discussion of territorial rights over the island; the claims of the German firm Robert Wönckhaus & Company to be allowed to mine red oxide there; representations on behalf of Robert Wönckhaus & Company from the German Government; claims for profits from the concession; reported German attempts to obtain Turkish intervention in the question, March 1908; and Foreign Office agreement that Wönckhaus should be allowed to fulfil their contracts, May 1908.There are also copies of papers (folios 89-226) documenting the history of mining rights on the island, dated 1883-1907, including correspondence from two of the holders of the mining concession, Haji Hassan bin Ali Samaiyeh and Esa bin Abdul Latif [‘Īsá bin ‘Abd al-Laṭīf], son of the Residency Agent, Shargah [Sharjah]; Shaikh Salim bin Sultan [Sālim bin Sulṭān Āl Qāsimī], the owner of the mines; Shaikh Sagar bin Khalid [Ṣaqr bin Khālid Āl Qasimī], Ruler of Sharjah; and Abdul Latif, the Residency Agent, Sharjah. These are accompanied by copies of agreements; and witness statements concerning the turning away of a German dhow from Abu Musa on 23 October 1907. The correspondence is in the form of English translations, followed in most cases by copies of the Arabic originals.There is a small amount (under five folios) of diplomatic correspondence in French.Each part includes a divider, which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and 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 for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 377; 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 A previous foliation sequence, which is present between ff 202-377 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out. The front and back covers, along with the leading and ending flyleaves, have not been foliated.
14. File 3104/1915 Pt 10 ‘Mesopotamia: Trade with; liquidation of enemy assets &c; claims against enemy assets’
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- 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.
15. File 3104/1915 Pt 2 ‘German War: conquered territory: status: question of trading; looting, etc., of goods by Turks’
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- Abstract: Correspondence and papers concerning trade in those parts of Mesopotamia [Iraq] under British military administration during the First World War. Subjects covered include: the resumption of trade between Britain and traders at Basra; claims by British firms for the losses of goods looted or destroyed at Baghdad and Basra by Turkish troops during the initial British invasion of Mesopotamia in 1914; the British Government’s response to claims made by British firms in Mesopotamia over losses incurred during the War; correspondence concerning the seizure and consequent liquidation of enemy (i.e. German and Austrian) commercial interests in the Persian Gulf, with specific reference to the German firm Robert Wönckhaus & Company; statements of balances of enemy commercial concerns seized by British forces for September 1916 (ff 116-117) and December 1916 (ff 79-80); the payment of funds from the assets of Robert Wönckhaus & Company, to employees of the firm interned as prisoners of war at Ahmednagar, India; representations made by the French ambassador to London on behalf of a French firm that had 180,000 Francs held in the Ottoman Bank, Baghdad.The file’s principal correspondents include: the Chief Political Officer of Indian Expeditionary Force D, Percy Zachariah Cox; the Foreign Office; the India Office; the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India.Several items of correspondence in the volume are written in French.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 243; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
16. File 3784/1916 ‘War: Persia German Consular Archives’
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- Abstract: The volume mostly consists of translated copies of selected records from the German Consulate at Bushire, Persia [Iran]. These records largely consist of correspondence of the German Consulate at Bushire with the German Imperial Chancellor in Berlin and the German Legation at Tehran, dated 1899 to 1914. The records are divided into six sets of papers: set I, relating to Koweit [Kuwait]; set II, relating to Masqat [Muscat]; set III, labelled ‘Miscellaneous papers of importance (re status of German consulate Bushire etc.etc.)’; set IV, ‘Political Papers 1913’; set V ‘Political Archives 1913 (Continued)’; and set VI, ‘Political 1913 (Continuation & Conclusion)’.The file also includes: India Office Secret Department Minute Paper covering sheets for the correspondence; and some correspondence of 1917 between Sir Arthur Hirtzel, Secretary of the India Office Political Department, and the Imperial Bank of Persia, in relation to a passage in a despatch from the German Consul at Bushire regarding the Bank reportedly being willing to do business with the German company Wonckhaus (also spelled as Wonkhaus in the correspondence).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 for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 281; these numbers are written in pencil and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The front and back covers, along with the two leading and two ending flyleaves, have not been foliated.
17. File 74/1915 Pt 1 'German War: banks at Basra'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence and other India Office papers relating to banks in Basra [Basrah or Bassorah or Busreh] during the First World War. It includes papers relating to:Whether or not Basra was classed as ‘enemy territory’, and whether the London Agency of the Imperial Ottoman Bank was free to trade and communicate with its branch in Basra.An application from the Eastern Bank Limited to open a branch in Basra.The intention of the Imperial Bank of Persia to re-open a branch at Basra.The question as to which bank should be used for British Government business at Basra.The appointments and allowances to be paid to successive Official Supervisors of the Basra branch of the Imperial Ottoman Bank.The claim of the Imperial Ottoman Bank against the German business Robert Wönckhaus and Company.The correspondence is mainly between the India Office and the following: Sir Percy Cox, Chief Political Officer, Indian Expeditionary Force; the Foreign Office, with enclosed Foreign Office correspondence; Sir William Plender, the Controller of the Imperial Ottoman Bank; the Imperial Ottoman Bank, London Agency, with enclosed correspondence of the Bank; the Foreign Trade Department; the Viceroy of India, Foreign Department; and the Eastern Bank Limited.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 first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 204; 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.
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