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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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Mesopotamia] BH I I ISH. IN I KliES 1 S
101
2. The concession was without prejudice to the
rights of Lynch Brothers, 1 which were to remain
unimpaired.
3. Lord Inchcape undertook to form a Company
under Ottoman law to exercise the rights granted by
the concession, the Turkish Government and Lord
Inchcape having each the right to nominate half of
the directors of the Company, and the shares of the
Company to be held approximately equally by the
representatives of English and Turkish interests. 2
4. The Company was to take over the vessels of the
Turkish Government (the Hamadie Company) en
gaged in the trade of the Tigris and Euphrates,
together with that Company's lands, buildings, plant,
&c.
The rights of Lynch Brothers which the concession
confirmed and acknowiedged were the following :
(a) The right to run two steamboats, each towing
not more than two barges, under the British flag on the
Tigris, Euphrates, and Shatt el-Arab, with a further
boat flying the British flag in reserve to replace either
of the above vessels if out of service.
(b) The right to run one steamboat, also with barges
in tow, on the rivers under the Ottoman flag.
(c) Methods of Economic Penetration*
The struggle between German and British trade in
Mesopotamia is particularly instructive and interest-
3 For the history of this firm, see above, p. 39.
2 In the Anglo-German Convention initialled in London, June
15, 1914, His Majesty's Government undertook not to oppose the
acquisition by the Baghdad Railway Company of 40 per cent, of
the share capital to be allotted to Turkish interests, i.e., 20 per
cent, of the whole capital of the Company.
8 A digest of information contained in (a) Notes by Sir George
Lloyd, K.C.I.E., annexed to a report on the Economic Situation in
the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
and Mesopotamian Markets from Lieut.-Colonel
Sir P. Z. Cox, K.C.S.I., K.C.LE., dated July 24, 1916. {h) A
report dated June 15, 1917, by Messrs. R. E. Holland and J. H.
Wilson to the Indian Government on the prospects of British trade
in Mesopotamia.
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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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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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