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'PERSIAN GULF AND GULF OF OMAN. RESOURCES AND COAST DEFENCES.' [‎83] (93/114)

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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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APPENDIX.
83
that region. The foreign trade of N. Persia was originally
built up by British merchants, working through Russian terri
tory and encouraged by the Russian Authorities. The modern
development of Russian industries led, however, to a change of
policy, which, by means of preferential freights for Russian
goods and political pressure on Persia, have practically driven
British manufactures out of the N. Persian market.
The great bulk of the trade at the present day is in Russian
hands, and, under existing conditions, is likely to remain so.
Russian cotton goods already have the upper hand in Central Eussian trade
and oouth i ersia, and the Russian Government is making a Central
determined endeavour to build up a commercial position in the and
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . With this view, reduced railway and steamer Persia -
freights* have been established on yoods from the chief Russian
towns by way of Odessa to Jidda, Aden, Jibuti, Maskat, Jashk,
Bunder Abbas, Linga, Bushire, Basra, and Baghdad. The
immediate object of this is, perhaps, political rather than com-
merdaJ, but, to some extent, it may be intended to discount the
effect on the trade of N. Persia by any non-Russian railway
constructed in the future from a port on the Gulf coast.
According to the so-called Secret Convention of 1890 between Eailway con-
Kussia and 1 ersia, the latter (it is understood) " engages neither mention.
to construct a railway in Persia nor permit others to do so,
and will not grant any concession for the construction of
" railways in Persia to anyone."
This agreement expired in 1900, and was then renewed for a
term of five years.
T) "I ^ ersian Customs have recently been taken over by a Persian Cus-
-belgian administration, which appears to be efficient. It is
ostensibly independent of Russian influence, but it may be noted
that Belgium is politically sympathetic to France, and that
Belgians have considerable financial interests in S. Russia.
« The only reliable portion of the Persian Army is the Persian
Cossack ^ cavalry brigade, which is commanded by a Russian Army,
officer, assisted by several Russian instructors. Under the cir
cumstances, this small force would doubtless play an important
part in any internal crisis.
In 1900 a large Government loan was floated by the Russian RussianLoan
Jjanque des Prets de Perse " (which is connected with the
Russian State Bank), an endeavour to place the loan with
* According to a statement published in June 1903, the Grand Duke
Alexander Mikhailovich, the Chief Director of Russian Commercial Navi-
gation and of Harbours, has been empowered to conclude a contract with
the Odessa Steam Navigation and Trading Company for the establishment
ot regular communication with ports in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . By this agree-
ment the Russian Government grants the Company an annual subsidv of
21,1^8^. (200,000 roubles) for 12 years beginning in 1903. Further "the
tolls levied on vessels passing through the Suez Canal will be repaid to the
Company by the Russian Government. The Company is to send three
vessels every year to the Gulf.

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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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