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The record is made up of 1 volume (76 folios). It was created in Feb 1919. 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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68
ECONOMTC CONDITIONS
[No. 92
(2) External
(a) Parts
Basra is situated on the right bank of the Shatt el-
Arab, 70 miles above Fao. With the possible exception
ot Nahr I mar {see below), Basra is the only port of
Mesopotamia which can be used by deep-sea steamers.
Its population in 1914 was about 80,000, mostly Arabs.
Basra is not only the centre of the import trade of
Mesopotamia, but the port to which aire consigned
practically all goods destined for Kermanshah in
Persia, such goods being trans-shipped to river
steamers for Baghdad, whence they are forwarded into
Persia by road. The imports consist chiefly of Man
chester goods, sugar, wood, gunnies, indigo, iron and
steel, and general merchandise; exports are cereals and
rice, dates, wool, gall-nuts, hides, and horses.
The Following statistics of the trade and shipping of
Basra for the years 1906 and 1911-1913 are taken
from the Consular Reports:—
im.
1911.
1912.
trade.
Imports
Exports
£
1,511,545
1.644,220
£ £
2,855,077 2,653,984
2,525,847' 3,246,5601
1913.
£
3,899,273
1.939,259
shipping.
Total
Number ..
Tonnage..
British
668
257.222
569 2
332.807
578
324,457
445
346,939
N umber ..
Tonnage ..
German
243
218,711
2592
265,308
294
253,649
300
266,309
Number ..
Tonnage..
6
9,411
15
41.249
12
30,948
20
55,149
'The export figures for 1911 and 1912 are infiated owing to
he ex.-ept,onal harvest of 1911, which affected the shipments of
IVU 1 and 1912.
Includes stoam lighters to and from the bar.
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This volume is a confidential handbook on Mesopotamia prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office, dated February 1919. There is a table of contents which includes the following chapters:
- I: 'Geography Physical and Political', including 'Position and Frontiers', 'Surface, Coast and River Systems', 'Climate', 'Sanitary Conditions', 'Race and Language' and 'Population';
- II: 'Political History', including 'Chronological Summary', 'Introduction', 'Early period of Turkish Occupation, 1638-1834', 'Later period of Turkish Occupation, 1834-1914', and 'Commercial Developments';
- III: 'Social and Political Conditions', including 'Religious', 'Political', 'Public Education' and 'General Observations';
- IV: 'Economic Conditions', including 'Means of Communication', 'Industry', 'Commerce', 'Finance' and 'General Remarks'.
There is also an appendix which includes tables of 'Exports to Principal Countries from Baghdad', 'Imports from Principal Countries to Baghdad', 'Principal Exports from Basra' and 'Principal Imports to Basra'. This is followed by a section entitled 'Authorities' which is a bibliography of references used for the preparation of the volume. This section is divided into 'Historical' (including 'Confidential Sources'), 'Economic' ('Official' and 'General') and 'Maps'. There is a pocket at the back of the volume to house maps, but there are no maps present.
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