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25. 'File No. 40/2 RED OXIDE AT ISLAND OF TAMB'
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- Abstract: The file comprises correspondence relating to the work of the Golden Valley Ochre and Oxide Company Limited (Commander Daniel Harvey Rainier) in the Persian Gulf.The initial correspondence between the Company and the Residency Agent at Sharjah discusses obtaining permission from the Shaikh of Ras-al-Khaimah [Ra’s al Khaymah] (Sulṭān bin Sālim Āl Qasimī) to investigate red oxide deposits on Tunb Island.The later correspondence relates to two thefts which occurred in December 1943 and January 1944 on the Company’s property and stores at Abu Musa and includes a report from the Company’s watchman on the island (Aḥmad bin ‘Abdullāh) and correspondence with the Company’s Agent at Sharjah (Hosain bin Ḥasan Amad) and Cunningham and Gibaud, a loss Adjusting company appointed to handle the claim.A series of file notes which were maintained as a record of the correspondence in the volume can be found at folios 45-47.Physical description: The main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 48; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Corrections have been made to this sequence which have been crossed through.An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 4-44; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
26. ‘File 41/3 Theft of ammunition from Jida store’
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- Abstract: The file comprises correspondence relating to the storage and security arrangements for small arms ammunition (SAA) held by the Government of Bahrain, prompted by the theft of 18,000 rounds of ammunition from a store on Jida [Jiddah] Island, in October 1945. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Agent at Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Crawshaw Galloway) and the Adviser to the Bahrain Government, Charles Dalrymple-Belgrave.The correspondence includes:A report of the theft from the Acting Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (f 2), and subsequent efforts to identify, apprehend and build a case against those believed to be involved in the theft of the 18,000 rounds, 11,000 rounds of which were believed to have been smuggled to the Iranian coast, and 7,000 taken to QatarCorrespondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, over the former’s concerns at ‘a number of glaring examples of lack of responsibility’ (f 17) relating to 100,000 rounds of ammunition given to the Bahrain Government by the British Government for the purposes of wartime defence, including discussion of: the amount of ammunition held by the Bahrain Government; how much has been used; security arrangements; and storage facilitiesA request by the Political Agent that the Bahrain Government destroy its pre-1918 ammunition; a request which the Adviser reports has been refused by the Ruler of Bahrain.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 46; 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 also present in parallel between ff 2-37; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.Pagination: the file notes at the back (ff 42-45) have been paginated using pencil.
27. ‘File 16/45 Case of certain thefts from the Political Agency, Bahrain’
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- Abstract: Correspondence, statements and other papers relating to incidents of theft occurring at the Political Agency:in June 1933, the theft of money from drawers in an Agency office (ff 2-9);in March 1934, another incident of money stolen from Agency cash boxes (ff 10-11);in August 1937, an incident of theft from the servants’ quarters at the Agency (ff 12-17). Copies of statements and other papers relating to the case can also be found in ‘File 16/38-II Miscellaneous: Notes and orders’ (IOR/R/15/2/1546);in 1944, the discovery of a broken plate, the pattern of which matched china missing and presumed stolen during transit from the Political Residency (ff 19-23);in November 1947, the theft of money (900 Indian rupees) from a cupboard in an Agency office (ff 24-28).Some of the file’s papers are written in Persian.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 31; 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 also present in parallel between ff 2-26; these numbers are also written in pencil. Some numbers in the previous foliation sequence are also circled, and have been superseded and therefore crossed out.
28. Affairs at Aden and Within its Vicinity, and at Hodeida
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 4 of 1853, dated 13 January 1853. The enclosures are numbered 3-9. Enclosure numbers 3-6 are dated 12 December 1852 to 5 January 1853.Enclosure numbers 3 and 5 consist of two letters from the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay. The letters report:The state of affairs at Aden and within its vicinity, including an incident in which a 'marauding party' of forty men of the Subiee [aṣ-Ṣubayḥī] 'tribe' attacked a kafila [caravan] of camels and plundered the goods it was carryingActions taken by Haines in response to complaints from merchants at Hodeida [Al Hudaydah] claiming British protection that they had been treated unjustly by the Turkish [Ottoman] government of Hodeida in relation to increased customs dues, and in being forcibly removed from their houses so that Turkish soldiers could be accommodated in them.Enclosure number 5 includes enclosed copies of correspondence between Haines and the Senior Naval Officer at Aden, Charles William Montrion, and correspondence between other Indian Navy officers.Enclosures 4 and 6 are minutes by the Governor of Bombay, directing that copies of Haines's letters be sent to the Government of India and the Secret Committee, and approving of Haines's reported actions.Numbers 7-9, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the Bombay Overland Times, the Bombay Overland Telegraph & Courier, and the Bombay Overland Gazettenewspapers dated 13 January 1853, are noted as missing.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-9, on folio 48. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.
29. PZ 6249/32 Arabia: Theft of Relics from the Holy Cube at Mecca
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- Abstract: Thefile contains correspondence regarding the theft of holy relics from the HolyCube in Mecca and the confession, sentencing and execution of the culprit. Thefile also mentions the ceremonial returning of the relics to the Holy Cube byIbn Saud. The primary correspondent is Cecil Gervase Hope Gill, HM Chargéd’Affaires to Jeddah.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 106, and terminates at f 111, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
30. File 9/2 II ‘No. 9/2 Vol. II Criminal Cases’
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- Abstract: The file contains case correspondence, including several witness statements and a few Kuwait Political Agency court proceedings, relating to the investigation and prosecution of several criminal offences. These are mainly cases of assault and theft committed in Kuwait against Indian and Persian foreign residents and reported by the victims to the Political Agent. Both the perpetrators and victims of these crimes include Government of India staff employed at the Kuwait Political Agency and the Kuwait Post Office. The main correspondents are Major James Carmichale More, Political Agent, Kuwait and Shaikh Salim ab-Subah [Āl Ṣabāḥ, Shaikh Sālim bin Mubārak], Emir of Kuwait, whose letter exchanges are in Arabic, together with English translations. Some of the petitions and letters of complaint submitted by the victims to the Political Agent, are written in Arabic and in a very few cases, in Persian.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 211; 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 1-210; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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