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'PERSIAN GULF AND GULF OF OMAN. RESOURCES AND COAST DEFENCES.' [72] (80/114)
The record is made up of 56 folios. It was created in 1903. 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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72
PERSIAN GULF
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
. —KKSOUKCES AND DEFENCES-.
upper ports should have to be taken out of the ship's hold at
Mohammerah and there examined. Representations were made
to the Persian Government; and I am glad to say that the result
has been that temporary arrangements have been made, or are
about to be made, under which our traders will be given Customs
facilities at these three ports as was originally intended. (Hear,
hear.) The whole question of our commercial relations with
Persia is at this moment engaging our most attentive considera
tion, and particularly that question of the Customs larifF upon
Persian Cus- which the noble lord laid so much stress. The Customs tariff
turns tariff. was, as your lordships will recollect, lately revised ; and I think
the noble lord is justified in saying that that revision was not to
the interest of British commerce. But I am inclined 10 think
that the apprehensions which were felt on this point were some
what exaggerated. I was relieved when I read the other day an
account of the annual meeting of the Associated Chainbers of
Commerce, at which a member of Parliament, Mr. Emmott, made
the following statement:—" The new tariff in regard to cotton
" goods had been carefully examined by Manchester merchants,
" who did not think it injured them. It was not preferential as
" regards Russia, and they do not believe the tariff would turn
" out to be any higher than previously." That may be a san
guine estimate; but it shows, at any rate, that some of the alarm
felt was greater than the circumstances justified. The particular
commodity which is most seriously affected by the new tariff is tea,
and your lordships probably know that there is a large trade in tea
between India and Persia. But here, again, I find that the
Persian tea duties, when examined, are not very much larger
than those which are imposed on tea in this country ; and, there
fore, I am not sure that we can protest very loudly on that
point. Where, I think, the noble lord has most right to com
plain upon this question is as to this point. As matters now
stand, all we can demand at the hands of the Persian Govern
ment is most-favoured-nation treatment; and that, of course, we
have got under the revised tariff. But we all know it is not
very difficult so to adjust a tariff that, while it is in appearance
equal in its operation with regard to all the Powers concerned,
it really in effect discriminates against some of them. And,
therefore, I for one am not satisfied that this country should
have to be content merely with most-favoured-nation treatment
at the hands of Persia. That matter is the subject of negotia
tion at this moment; and I have every hope that we shall be
able to bring about an arrangement under which, instead of
accepting tariff arrangements made between Persia and other
Powers without reference to the effect of those arrangements
upon us, we should be in a position to have arrangements of our
own which will give us the right of insisting that, whenever
Persia again attempts to touch her tariff, British interests shall
be specially considered. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord said a
Railways in few words with regard to railways in Persia. I believe it is an
I'ersia. open secret that a few years ago Persia undertook to defer the
construction of any railways at all for a term of years. We were
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Printed report published by the Intelligence Department of the Admiralty, 1903. The report includes advice on collecting information on defences such as defended areas, minefields, ordnance, under-water defences. Much of the information was extracted from the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Report, 1898.
There are details on Muscat; Mussandam Promontory; Khor Kawi [Khawr al Quway‘], Elphinstone Inlet [Khawr ash Shamm], Khasab; Pirate Coast; Bahrain; Kuwait; Fao [Al Fāw]; Basra; Bushire; Lingah; Bundar Abbas [Bandar Abbas].
Also included is an 'Official statement of British Policy with regard to (1) the proposed Baghdad Railway; and (2) Persia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. generally' given in the House of Lords, May 5, 1903.
Maps include: rough sketch of operations in the vicinity and Bushire from the 3rd to the 10th February 1857 (Reproduced from Outram's Persian Campaign 1857); sketch of the attack on the batteries of Mohumra [Khorramshahr]: combined naval and military forces under command of Sir James Outram; sketch of the ground in the neighbourhood of Ahwaz [Ahvāz] on the Karun [Kārūn], showing the position occupied by the Persian Army, and the advance of the British detachment upon the town, March 1857. At the back of the report there is a large fold-out map: General Outline Map of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. showing Submarine Cables and the Principal Places mentioned in the Report.
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on a map that is stored in a sleeve at the back of the volume, on number 57.
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- front, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:12, 12a:12b, 13:62, 62a:62b, 63:78, 78a:78b, 79:86, 86a:86b, 87:88, 88a:88d, 89:94, ii-r:ii-v, back-i, back
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