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'File 82/1 IV (F 79) Anglo Persian Oil Company Arab Side (Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd)' [‎113r] (233/419)

The record is made up of 1 file (204 folios). It was created in 30 Oct 1925-27 Sep 1932. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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6# Among Arabs friendship goes a long way, and
if there Is anything to be given away, a despotic ruler, like
the Shaikh is as likely as not to favour the friend even at
£
some expense ^ himself.
fj 9 Do all you can to make your draft "concession"
as simple and as short as possible, and avoid as many flowery
"ohrasej? as you can. The Arah is not lilce tbe Persian, niid dis
likes if anything unnecessary ombroidery and fullsome phrases.
In fact one of tho ret'sons why he hates the Persian, is the
fullsome wording of Persian documents, which he always suspects
are intended to cover traps.
0 # Don f t forget too that your most important role
Is to try and convince the Shaikh that you mean to get to work
at once. If you get your ooncersion. Holmes regularly rubs it
In that the A.P.O.C # s policy is only w a dog In the manger one"
and that even now you are working feverishly to keep him and
his "crowd" out of Kuwait, and that that done, you mean to sit
still and do notMng more. This form of propaganda you must be
prepared to combat with all your power. I was only told yesterday
by Dr.Miss Barney of the Mission here tbat at a dinner party
which she attended on 27th June 1932, 15ajor Holmes loudly held
forth to the members of the Mission in this strain.
g # The latest Is that Holmes has suddenly decided
to leawo for the United Kingdom having heard that the fate oi
his draft concession will probably be decided in London in
direct consutation between His Majesty's Government and his
company. He departs tomorrow (SOth June 10o2) taking the . est—
bound air mall. This is a tip for ycu.
10. 3)urlng his absence a geologist called Miller
{who arrived yesterday from Bahrain) will conduct a rough
surface survey over Kuwait territory, to try and corelate
Bahriln and Kuwait geological conditions. Holmes told me last
nl^it that Miller would remain only 12 days and return to Bahrain,
but that remains to be seen.
I asked the Shaikh yesterday if he had accord
ed his sanction to such work and he replied in the af 'irmiuive
but that he had ^orbiader &11 "und^r the surface" exploration.
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The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between the Political Department, the Colonial Office and the Secretary of State at 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. in London, the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. at Bushire, the Political Agents at Kuwait and Anglo Persian Oil Company (APOC) representatives. Main subjects are the negotiations for oil concessions mainly in Kuwait, but also in Bahrain and Nejd [Najd, Jubail, Saudi Arabia] against the competitor Eastern and General Syndicate Limited, represented by Major Frank Holmes, and a geological exploration of Kuwait by APOC.

The volume also includes a draft agreement on the oil exploration license in Kuwait, in Arabic and English, dated 13 August 1932, between Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, ruler of Kuwait, and APOC (folios 120-131), and a Map of 'Kuwait Bay' on folio 132A.

Some of the documents in the volume are marked as confidential and there are some documents in Arabic.

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1 file (204 folios)
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The documents in the volume are mostly arranged in chronological order. There is an index at the beginning of the volume, on folio 3, and notes at the end (folios 193-199).

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The main foliation is in pencil, encircled and in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The numbering commences at the front cover with 1, then 1A and 1B; 2 and 2A; 3-128; 129 and 129A; 130, 131, 132 and 132A and then it carries on until 203, which is the last number given on the back cover. A second foliation sequence runs between ff. 3-190; these numbers are also written in pencil, are not circled and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.

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