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'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1911-1914' [8v] (21/488)
The record is made up of 1 volume (241 folios). It was created in 1912-1915. 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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ADMINISTRATION REPORT OF THE
PERSIAN GULF
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Since then their attitude in this connection has assumed a less uncom-
promising aspect, and it may soon be possible for us to return to the attack.
Meanwhile, a preliminary examination made in the spring of 1911 by
Lieutenant A. T. Wilson indicated that the project offered no insuperable
difficulties from an engineering point of view, but the result of the investiga
tion of its economic possibilities by the Board of Trade and Government of
India somewhat discounts the favourable opinions expressed by British
capitalists.
Railways in Fars.- —An application by a group of capitalists, headed by
Mr. C. Greenway, was made to the Persian Government for a concession tor
a project including lines from Bandar Abbas to Shiraz and Mohammerah,
and Bushire to Shiraz. Negotiations were well advanced when they were
abruptly terminated owing to the dismissal of the Treasurer-General,
Mr. Shuster, who had been charged by the Persian Government with the
negotiations. They have not since been resumed.
The investigation prosecuted by Lieutenant A. T. Wilson, in July and
August, of the possibilities for a connection between Bushire and some point
on a Bandar Abbas-Shiraz alignment near Jahrum indicated that no serious
engineering difficulties existed, but threw doubt on the prospects of such a
connection, as a commercial speculation.
During the year a modified scheme, involving less capital outlay than
that originally put forward by the
Lighting and buoying in the Gulf. Lighting Committee of 1905, was laid
before His Majesty's Government with a view to immediate inception. Up
to the end of the year their formal sanction had not been received to the
scheme as a whole, but meanwhile the existing buoys and beacons were taken
over from the British India Steam Navigation Company and spme of the
simpler recommendations of the Committee carried out, including a close
and accurate survey of the Shatt-el-Arab Bar and the approaches to Kuwait
and the provision of a gas buoy at the outer bar, the channel of which was
fully re-buoyed during the year.
Unfortunately our action in this direction was anticipated by a few
days by the Turks, owing to the absence of any information as to the prac
tical steps the latter were taking to carry out their announced intention to
make their own arrangements for buoying the bar. Their preparations to
this end included the leisurely construction by Indian rivetters in their work
shops at Basrah of several large buoys the existence of which was only known
to His Majesty's Government a few hours before their conveyance to the
bar.
The Jask installation continued to work satisfactorily, and a temporary
installation was also effected at the
Wireless installation. House at Rish ehr, without any
opposition on the part of the Persian authorities who indeed freely made
use of the facilities afforded.
The comprehensive scheme for the Gulf generally, which was under the
consideration of His Majesty's Government during the year, had not received
final sanction up to the close thereof.
In the hope of arriving at an amicable settlement of the many items of
conflicting interest existing between
egotiations wit e one. Great Britain and the Porte in Turkish
Arabia and the Gulf, after some preliminary pourparlers a memorandum
was presented to the Turkish Government, in July, giving a frank exposition
of our claims and requirements both in regard to the Baghdad Railway, the
status of Kuwait and Gulf questions generally.
Negotiations were commenced during the year, but had not made much
definite progress, and unfortunately, while His Majesty's Government studi
ously avoided in the meanwhile any action in the region in question calculat
ed to disturb the status quo or Turkish sensibilities, the Turks on the contrary
lost no opportunity of endeavouring to better their position for negotiation
by hurried attempts to modify the local status quo in their own favour.
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The volume contains Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year 1911 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1912); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year 1912 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1913); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year 1913 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing India, 1914); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year 1914 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing India, 1915).
The Reports contain reviews by 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. , and chapters on each of the consulates, agencies, and other administrative districts that made up the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. . The Reports contain information on political developments, territorial divisions, local administration, principal places and tribes, British personnel and appointments, trade and commerce, naval and marine matters, communications, transport, judicial matters, pearl fisheries, the slave trade, arms and ammunition traffic, medical matters and public health, oil, notable visitors and events, meteorological data, and related topics.
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- 1 volume (241 folios)
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There is a list of contents toward the front of each Report.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 2 on the first folio after the front cover, and terminates at 242 on the back cover. These numbers are written in pencil and 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.
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- 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1911-1914'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:240v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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