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'The Arms Traffic in the Persian Gulf' [33v] (9/62)
The record is made up of 30 folios. It was created in 10 Jun 1910. 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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Tr. r
Table
contained in Government of India s Idler, 2nd Septemhet 10 )J.
Year.
Number of
Rifles imported
into Muskat.
Number of rifles exported to
Mekran.*
Elsewhere.
1906
1907
1908
40,000
60,000
78,825
3,175
11,247
35,520
14,700
14,500
30,900
Number of
Rifles unaccounted
for.
22,125
34,253
12,405
•The Go —tot Ma
^ 50 cent - ot u ■ o ^ cxport3 to
Mekran coast."
As regards the origin of these arms, the Government of India calculated
in February 1907 that, whereas m 1899-1900 only about one seventh o
imports came from France, by 1905 the P/X 0r ,\ 1 7 0n , 0 OA7 ^QO^m'the
to tvvo-fifths.f As regards the years 1906-07, 1907-08 and JiK^ nJ, t ic
figures are given in the following table. It will be seen that about 5o 5 per
cent, of the arms imported in 1906-07, about 51^ per cent of those imported
in 1907-08, and about 501 per cent, m 1908-09, were of Belgian manufacture,
the percentage of English-made rifles for the corresponding years being
about 38, 34, and 30 : —
Rifles imported into MuskatJ :—
Of Belgian manufacture
„ French ,,
„ English
,, German ,,
,, Roumanian ,,
Total
1906-07.
1907-8.
1908-09.
24,196
45,370
43,280
3,725
6,280
4,230
17,000
30,800
25,600
—
5,230
6,550
—
—
6,160
44,927
87,680
85,820
It will be noted that Germany appeared as an importer of rifles into
Muskat for the first time in 1907-08. Koumania entered the field in 1908-09
as a competitor for the sale of condemned army rifles.
The following table shows the total value of the arms and ammunition
imported into Muskat for the six years from 1903-04 to 1908-09, and of the
duty payable to the Sultan at the rate of 6 per cent.§ for the same period :—
Value of Arms and
Ammunition im
ported into Muskat.
Duty payable to
Sultan at rate of
6 per cent.
1903-04 - - ' -
1904-05
1905-06 ....
1906-07
1907-08 - - . .
1908-09
£
76,612
107,631
71,625
112,338
279,050
237,644
£
4,596
6,458
4,417
6,740
16,740
14,256
n 1, 11 s ! 10uld ke noted that the arms classified as " French " previous to 1906-07 included
all those shipped from Marseilles to Muskat. A considerable proportion seem from the first
to have been of Belgian manufacture.
* Tll i"| fi ^'i re n three following tables are taken from the Trade Reports
prepared by the Poht.eal Agent, Muskat, and are based on lluskat Cnstoms returns r
§ bee paragraph 6.
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This file is a report regarding arms traffic in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. written by John Evelyn Shuckburgh of the 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. 's Political Department. The main body of the report (ff 30-51) is divided up as follows:
I. Summary of Early History;
II. The Situation in 1907;
III. Events in 1907-09;
IV. Events subsequent to Brussels Conference: Naval Blockade Operations.
Following the report, the file contains a series of appendices (ff 52-58), the details of which are as follows:
I. Treaty between United States and Muskat [Muscat], 1833;
II. Treaty between France and Muskat, 1844;
III. Anglo-French Declaration, 1862;
IV. Gwadur Prohibition, 1891;
V. Persian Agreement, 1897;
VI. Muskat Agreement, 1898;
VII. Bahrein [Bahrain] Agreement, 1898;
VIII. Restrictions on British Traders at Muskat; Regulations issued 1898;
IX. Koweit [Kuwait] Agreement, 1900;
X. Trucial Chiefs Agreement, 1902;
XI. Muskat Notifications, 1903;
XII. Karwan Arms Agreement, 1906;
XIII. Powers of search and detention by His Majesty's Ships;
XIV. Seizures of Arms and Ammunitions, November 1909 - May 1910.
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An alphabetical index is contained in the file on folio 59.
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Condition: the file is contained within a bound volume that contains several other reports on a number of topics.
Foliation: The foliation for this sequence commences at f 30, and terminates at f 59, as it is part of a larger physical volume; 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. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 7-151; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the bottom 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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