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'F.85 File 82/27-IV Qatar Oil' [39r] (86/422)
The record is made up of 1 volume (207 folios). It was created in 1 May 1934-1 Jul 1934. 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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Confidential .
No :C/507-10/3.
Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
,
Banrain, the 12th May 1934.
i
From:-
Lieut-Colonel Gordon Loch, I.A.,
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.
,
Bahrain.
To:-
The Honourable 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 the Persian &ujf,
at Kuwait.
Subject:- Qatar Oil. Reconnaissance.
Sir,
I have the honour to refer to your telegrams Ko:450
dated the 2nd May and Wo:453 dated the 3rd May 1934.
2. Early on the 3rd May a special launch took a letter
to Shaikh 'Abdullah bin Qasim al Thani informing him of the
friendly nature of the reconnaissance and asking him to warn
his tribesmen to afford help in the event of a forced landing.
On the 6th May I received a reply couched in friendly
terms and only asking that the aircraft should fly high enough
to avoid frightening camels or other animals, because, if their
animals were to be stampeded, the bedouin of tribes not under
tis control might not heed the instructions which he was sending
to all of them.
I passed this request and also certain information
ibout the area, over which they were to fly, to the Officers
Commanding the Qatar Reconnaissance Detachments of 203 (P.B)
Squadron and 84 (B) Squadron of the Royal Air Force, Group
Captain R.E.Saul and Squadron Leader S.P.fincent, (see my
betters Nos:0/493-10/3 and C/494-10/3 dated the 7th May 1934).
3. On the 9th May the reconnaissance was carried out
/wi thout
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The volume contains correspondence between 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 Bahrain and 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 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 Shaikh of Qatar, ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, and the Foreign Office in regard to the southern borders of Qatar, the Qatar oil concession and the relations of the Shaikhdom with ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd), King of Saudi Arabia. There is also correspondence regarding an air reconnaissance of Qatar to be carried out via RAF flying boats, which took place on 9 May 1934, including reports of the reconnaissance (folios 147-154).
Some of the documents in the volume are marked as secret or confidential.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (207 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the volume are mostly arranged in chronological order. There are notes at the end of the volume, (folios 196-202). The file notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the volume; they give brief description of the correspondence with reference numbers in red crayon, which refer back to that correspondence in the volume.
- Physical characteristics
The main foliation is written in pencil, 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'. of each folio.The numbering begins on the title page, on number 1, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 207.
There is another foliation sequence, incomplete.
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- IOR/R/15/1/629
- Title
- 'F.85 File 82/27-IV Qatar Oil'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1r:90v, 91v:118v, 121r:168v, 169v, 172v, 174v, 175v:206v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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