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'Historical Summary of Events in Territories of the Ottoman Empire, Persia and Arabia affecting the British Position in the Persian Gulf, 1907-1928' [‎35v] (77/188)

The record is made up of 1 volume (90 folios). It was created in 1928. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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** Teh. Desp. to F.O. 574,
Oct. 31 1925, P. 73/26.
li T P i fmm vip f officials iii the Gulf to treat Bahreinis as Persian subjects, and the Persian
S. of S., 833, S., June 20
ice-Consul at Nejf issued a notice to the effect that Bahreinis should
1923, p. 2357/23; Teh. tel. register at his Consulate and obtain passports II
to F.O., 135, July 14 1923, 1 1 11
P. 3524A/23. oQ rpi-. • • , i •, . • .
serious internal situation inlersia made it necessary to postpone
wtmi vn j ^ ii moo aC ^ 1 ? n 011 ^ le ^ Iies approved by His Majes^'s Government, and temporarilv
p. 2472/23. ^ 1923, to drop the proposal, in which the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. had concurred,!! to take
retaliatory action in the matter of passports should the Persian Government
not withdraw the instructions they had issued on that question to their officials
m the Gulf.
^9. No further steps were taken until September 1923, when the Persian
ovemment weie infoimed that the Island was now a British Protectorate,
and that His Majesty's Government did not contemplate any alteration of
its status ~a^ declaiatiou met by a statement by the Persian Minister for
Foreign Affairs that the Government of which he was a member had no
intention of laying claim to Bahrein on behalf of Persia. This did
not prevent the Minister for Foreign Affairs from again raising the question
in the following month in a conversation in the course of which Sir
1 ercy Loraiue tentatively suggested, in his personal capacity, the possibility
of putting the matter to arbitration, a suggestion for making which he
was sharply rebuked by the F oreign Office, and from which nothing resulted.
<l)0. Between 19_ > tJ > and 19J/ there was a lull, and no point of real
importance arose. His Majesty's Government were reluctant to face the
question of the status of Bahrein, and in consequence adopted in general an
accommodating attitude so far as possible on minor questions. Thus, on
the vexed question of the use by Bahreinis of Persian passports and
travelling passes (Ilm-o-Khabar), agreement was reached in 1925" :iHi: that
Bahrein subjects should not be subjected to the new Persian passport
regulations, the production of an Ilm-o-Khabar sufficing, and His Majesty's
Government, despite the apparent concession of principle involved in the
recognition of the Ilm-o-Khabar, decided in 1927 tacitly to acquiesce in this
— partly on the ground that the recognition of these documents could be
ignored, since they were also being issued by Persia in the case of Koweit,
the status of which was not in dispute to let the question of independent
Bahreini passports lie; and to allow the matter generally to rest unless
it was revived by Persian action.| There were no developments until June
1928, when the refusal of the Persian Consul at Basra to visa the pass of a
Bahreini—an incident now under examination—again raised the question.!!
31. In September 1928, the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. ,.on learning that a Persian
residing at Bahrein was endorsing Persian Ilm-o-Khabar for Persians for
the return journey to Persia, instructed the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. to tell the
Sheikh to issue orders that no one bearing such documents would be allowed
to land, and to inform the offender who was issuing endorsements that he
was usurping the powers of a Government official, which could be performed
only with the consent of the Sheikh, and that he would be requested to leave
the island unless he desisted. The vigorous reassertion of the Persian
claim to Bahrein dealt with below renders it desirable to keep a vigilant
watch foi anj action which might be construed or represented by Persia
as an admission of their claim to suzerainty over Bahrein, and while it
is not cleai how persons carrying Ilm-o-Khabar are to be identified on
landing. Sir Lionel Ilaworth s action is not inopportune at a time when
theie aie indications of an inclination on the part of Persia to assert a
shadowy claim to suzerainty over the States of the Arab littoral by requiring
that their nationals shall take out Persian passports or travelling passes.
It may be mentioned at this point that the Belgian Administrator-
General of the 1 ersian Customs stated early in 1928 that ''about four years
ago he had been taken to task b}^ the Government of the day for imposing
customs duties on goods imported from Bahrein to Persia ; and that he had
replied that customs dues had always been so levied . . . and that before
t ley con d be abandoned . . . the Persian Government would have to
institute a customs control at Bahrein itself."!
* G. of I. to I.O., Sept. 5
1927, P. 4573/27
t F.O. to 1.0., Nov. 2 1927,
P. 5120/27.
ft C.O. to I.O., July 24
1928. I.O. to F.O., Aug. 17
1928, P. 3913 ; 4055/28.
Tel. from Pol. Res. to
S. of S. foi' I., Sept. 18
1928, P. 5100.
Pol. Res. to S. of S. for I.,
Sept. 17, P. 5093 28.
J Teh. Desp. 53, Jan. 27
1928, P. 879/28.

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The volume is entitled Summary of Events in Territories of the Ottoman Empire, Persia and Arabia affecting the British Position in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , 1907-1928 (printed by the Committee of Imperial Defence, October 1928).

Includes sections on The Ottoman Empire, Persia, Arabia (Nejd [Najd]), Mohammerah [Khorramshahr], Muscat, and Bahrein [Bahrain].

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1 volume (90 folios)
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There is a table of contents at the front of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 90 on the back cover. These numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. Foliation anomalies: ff. 1, 1A; ff. 86, 86A. Two folios, f. 3 and f. 4 have been reattached in the wrong order, so that f. 4 precedes f. 3. The following map folios need to be folded out to be examined: f. 87, f. 88.

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