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File 10/5 I Saudi Arabia: Hasa Oil Concession; visit of Major Holmes to Saudi Arabia; Kuwait blockade. [172r] (380/496)
The record is made up of 1 volume (245 folios). It was created in 15 Mar 1932-9 Jan 1935. 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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Your Exce lienor
On the End Marsh a member of Your
Ezcellenoy 's Btaff & called at this Depai 'tment and referred
to the question of the aircraft which the California
Arabian Standard Oil Company are about to employ for survey
work in connexion with their oil ooneession in Saudi Arabia*
and ^lioh formed the subject of my note of 16th February.
He explained-that the Company were anxious that this aircraft
should be able p after its arrival on the Haea eoast, to fly
to Bahrain in cases of urgent necessity, either in order to
take to the United State Ission Hospital in Bahrain -any
injured or sick employees of the Company who may need urgent
treatment and cannot be treated locally # or in order that
any major repairs which the aircraft itself may require may
be carried out at the workshops of the Bahrein Petroleum
Company in that Island® The United States Government wiehad
to knov? whether a general permission could be granted to
this Company for emergency flights of this nature«
2a fh® Bahrain GrOTermnent have been consulted
through the British authorities concerned and I am glad to
be able to inform you that the aircraft will be allowed to •
fly tc Bahrain in the special cases of urgent necessity
referred to afeow© It will be necessary^ however^ for such
visits to be notified to the Bahrain Government through the
British
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
on each occasion in advance* and
the permission \Till be subject to the understanding that
they
^celiency
Honourable
Bobert Yh Bingham
®tGo g , etC(, a etc
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The volume contains correspondence between the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 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. in Bushire and the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Bahrain on the Hasa oil concession in Saudi Arabia, the negotiations of the Standard Oil Company of California for the oil concession in Hasa and the visit of Major Frank Holmes to Riyadh to meet Ibn Saud.
The volume includes correspondence on the Saudi blockade against Kuwait, two copies of the Hasa oil agreement between the Standard Oil Company of California and the Saudi Arab Kingdom (folios 52-68 and 87-102) and correspondence on the application of the Standard Oil Company of California for permission to fly from Basra to Bahrain, which encountered resistence of 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. in Bushire, against the presence of American companies in Bahrain (folios 121-123 and following).
There is an index at the end of the volume (folios 212-223).
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- 1 volume (245 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the volume are arranged in chronological order. There is an index at the end of the volume (folio 212-223). The index is arranged chronologically and refers to documents within the volume; it gives brief description of the correspondence with a reference number, which refers back to that correspondence in the volume.
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The foliation is written in pencil in the top right corner (between 44-82 the numbering can be found at the top centre of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. ). The numbering begins on the first page of text which follows 4 blank pages and terminates on the 5th folio from the back; at the rear of the volume there are 4 blank pages. Foliation errors: 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d and 1e; 29, 29a and 29b; 137A and 137B; 159A and 159B; 169A and 169B; 171A and 171B; 179A and 179B.
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- Title
- File 10/5 I Saudi Arabia: Hasa Oil Concession; visit of Major Holmes to Saudi Arabia; Kuwait blockade.
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iv-v, 1av:1cv, 1dv:1ev, 2r:29v, 29ar:29cv, 30r:136v, 137ar:137bv, 138r:158v, 159ar:159bv, 160r:167v, 168v, 169ar:169bv, 170r:170v, 171ar:171bv, 172r:178v, 179ar:179bv, 180r:182v, 183ar:183bv, 184v:191v, 193r:199v, 201r:203v, 204v:223v, v-r:viii-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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