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'D 93 KUWAIT OIL A.P.O.C. (82/1 VI) and E. & G.S. (86/1 IV)' [96r] (212/526)
The record is made up of 1 volume (259 folios). It was created in 1 Feb 1933-30 Jun 1933. 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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64/27 5c 32/1 -86/1.
Telegram XX,
From
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.
jt
To Political ReBiaent, Bvshire.
Ho. 849.
Dated 1st received End &pril 1933.
x^idOHAL .
Following from Laithwaite for Fowle.
Your personal telegram of 1st April.
Airways tmH^teen asked to facilitate
passages for you and family "by air mail arriving
here 18tli. As one of the principal subjects
for discussion will "be Kuwait oil we agree as to
desirability of your visiting Kuwait if possible,
and would have no objection to postponing arrival
here for a week if essential for this purpose.
In any case it is important that ohaikh should not
take decision on Kuwait oil during your absence
and your visit to Kuwait may make it possible to put
this beyond aoubt.
We should be grateful in this connect-
-ion if you could let the Shaikh know, in whatever
manner you consider desirable, that once he receive^
the fresh drafts concessions referred to in your
telegram No. 6, dated 29 th It arch, to the Jolonial
Office, we shall be ready to advise on them as in the
case of the concessions previously put forward by the
Syndicate. We regard it as most important that
he should, in fact, ask us so to advise.
Please let us know what you decide.
3SGBBTAHY OF SIATE FOR INDIA.
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- Content
The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India and the Secretary of State for the Colonies 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 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. at Kuwait and and Eastern and General Syndicate Limited (E.&G.S.) representatives. The main subject is the negotiations for oil concessions in Kuwait between APOC and Eastern and General Syndicate Limited, represented by Major Frank Holmes.
The volume also includes some letters, in Arabic and in translation, from and to the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, and correspondence regarging him being invited to visit London as guest of the Eastern and General Syndicate (folios 73-74). On folios 155A-166 'Final Record of a Meeting held at the Colonial Office on the 26th of April, 1933, to discuss various questions relating to Oil in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ', regarding Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (259 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the volume are mostly arranged in chronological order. There are notes at the end of the volume, (folios 237-244). The file notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the file; they give a brief description of the correspondence with reference numbers in red crayon, which refer back to that correspondence in the volume.
- Physical characteristics
The foliation is written in pencil, not circled, and can be found 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.
The numbering commences at the title page with 1, 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D; then 2-23; 24 and 24A; 25-45; 46 and 46A; 47-110; 111, 111A and 111B; 112-154; 155 and 155A; 156-176; 177-178 are missing or skipped; 179-185; 186 and 186A; 187-215; 216 and 216A and then it carries on until 245, which is the fifth folio from the back of the volume.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/1/623
- Title
- 'D 93 KUWAIT OIL A.P.O.C. (82/1 VI) and E. & G.S. (86/1 IV)'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1r:1v, 1ar:1dv, 2r:20v, 21v:24v, 24ar:24av, 25r:46v, 46ar:46av, 47r:52v, 53v:60v, 61v:63v, 64v:65v, 66v, 67v:68v, 69v:74v, 75v:83v, 84v:111v, 111ar:111bv, 112v:148v, 149v, 151v:155v, 155ar:155av, 156r:176v, 179r:186v, 186ar:186av, 187r:216v, 216ar:216av, 217r:245v, ii-r:v-v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence