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'File 10/13 A.P.O.C. - Miscellaneous' [38r] (81/182)
The record is made up of 1 file (91 folios). It was created in 5 Oct 1936-26 Jul 1944. 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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instance Norway, the Union of Soviet Socialist Re .10lies and
he believed lortu :al, also claimed nore than three miles.
6. The position in international lav/ was uncertain.
Efforts to reach international agreement on the subject had
so far come to nothing, and although other countries could
not say' that His Majesty's Government were wrong in maintaining
that the proper limit was three miles, His Majesty's Government
could not say that those countries were wrong in saying that
the limit could and should be increased. Thus, if the matter
were referred to arbitration the case would probably go in
favour of whoever happened to be the defendant. If, for
instance, His Majesty's Government took the .ersian Government
to court because they objected to some act of sovereignty done
by the Persian Government or their agents in waters lying
between three and twelve miles from the Persian coast, they
would probably be told that they had failed to prove that the
Persian Government had no right to do what they had done in
those waters. If on the other hand the Persian Government
took His Liajesty's Government to court because of something
done by, say, one of His -vlajesty's Ships in such waters, they
would probably be the ones to be told that they had failed to
show that the warship had no right to do what it had done.
7« It was conceivable that, as time went on, the
mineral potentialities of the bed of the sea, as brought to
light by the problem facing the present meeting, would prove
to be more important than questions of fishing rights and make
it desirable for His Majesty's Government themselves to claim
more extensive territorial limits. (Dr. Lees quoted a case
in point from the seas adjoining Trinidad). This, however,
was mere speculation and for the moment His Majesty's
Government were concerned to maintain as best they could,
notwi ths tanding/
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The file contains correspondence and telegrams between 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. at Bushire, 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. at Bahrain and the British Foreign Office on sundry matters, amongst which: visa arrangements for British nationals, petroleum development in Muscat and Anglo Persian Oil Company (APOC) claim of 100,000 square miles in Persia.
The file includes: 'Facts on food production and distribution' (folios 82-83).
There are file notes (folios 84-87).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (91 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the file are arranged in chronological order. There are file notes (folios 84-87). The notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the file; they give brief description of the correspondence with a reference number, which refers back to that correspondence in the file.
- Physical characteristics
The foliation sequence starts at the front cover; numbering is in pencil and can be found in the top right corner, it starts with 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D and then it carries on until 88, which is the last number given on the back cover of the file.
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- IOR/R/15/2/436
- Title
- 'File 10/13 A.P.O.C. - Miscellaneous'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 1br:1dv, 2r:10v, 12r:25v, 27v, 28v:41v, 45v:67v, 69r:87v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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