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'File 82/1 II (F 53) A.P.O.C., and Oil Concession - Arab Coast' [‎95r] (193/576)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (286 folios). It was created in 10 May 1923-9 Jan 1924. 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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82/1
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Prom
Telegram
Repeated
To
a.
political f Kuwait.
Resident, B ub hire.
Vice-Consul, MohAmiaerah, for information of
Wilson.
NO. 106-^ .
Dated anc received 13th July 1923.
Your telegram Jo. 690.
1 comm-inicated your message to the Shaikh
verbally and-confirmed it in writing.
Verbally he replied that he had merely aaked
for the advice of Government. He did not reply in writing
at all until 1 requested him to do so but has now sent me
letter to the effect that ass His Majesty's Government do not
approve of his giving concescion to t^e .hiastern and General
Syndicate , he will not oppose their orders . With reference
to the D'-arcy j^xpiora^ion Company he has already written to
Wilson informing him that his draft agreement is not accept
able either to him or to his people and that it is impossible
to conclude agreement on these linea .
to the Company is their supposed connection with the Kuwait
Water Plant.
1 have heard it said that his chief objection
Political .

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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 Muscat, local rulers, Anglo Persian Oil Company (APOC) and Eastern and General Syndicate Limited representatives on the negotiations for oil concessions in Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd [Najd, Jubail, Saudi Arabia], Qatar, Muscat, Oman and Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. .

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1 volume (286 folios)
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The documents in the volume are arranged in chronological order. There is an index at the beginning of the volume, on folio 3.

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The main foliation is in pencil, encircled, 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 begins on the first folio after the front cover, on number 1, then 2-63; 64A and 64B; 65-195; 196A and 196B and it carries on to the last folio, ending on 284. There is another foliation sequence, which is incomplete.

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