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‘19/5 SHUNKICHI NOMURA - JAPANESE OIL BROKER’ [3r] (5/18)
The record is made up of 1 file (7 folios). It was created in 8 Aug 1933-25 Aug 1933. 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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STRICTLY SECRET.
Ho.l6/*br/32.
From - The Director,
Intelligence Bureau,
Home Department, GoTemment of India*
To - The Secretary to the Hon’hle the Political
Roeident in the Pereian Gulf.
SIMLA, 20th July 1933.
Sir.
I hare the honour to state that a Japaneee named
SHDNKICHI HOMTTRA who is an oil
broker
Often a local commercial agent in the Gulf who regularly performed duties of intelligence gathering and political representation.
, ie likely to proceed
from Kabul, ehere he ie at preeent, to 'Iraq* There ie no
certainty ae to the route ehich he nill Adopt; in Tien,
however, of hie interest in the oil industry it seems
possible that he may travel via Persia*
2* He holds a Japanese passport No*223350 issued at
Tokyo on 24.5.33 and vised gratis by the British Consulate,
Tokyo, under No.17177 dated 30.5.33.
3. He arrived in Bombay by the S.S."Conte Rosso" on
22.6.33 and left Peshawar on 1.7.33 for Kabul, which place
he is visiting ostensibly with the object of finding a
market for the dumping of asbestos manufactured by a Japanese
firm, "Asano".
4. Though he may use his own business as a cover, it
has been suggested that he may be acting for the Japanese
Government•
5. In 1909 a man by t e name of Nomura entered India via
Kashgar, and was suspected to be a military or naval officer
engaged in spying the land; beyond the similarity in the
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This file concerns a Japanese oil broker Often a local commercial agent in the Gulf who regularly performed duties of intelligence gathering and political representation. named Shunkichi Nomura; his intention to travel from Kabul to Iraq; the possibility he may be acting for the Japanese Government; and his eventual abandonment of plans to travel to Iraq. The file contains correspondence between Captain Everard Huddleston Gastrell, 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 Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven Fowle, 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 Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. at Bushire.
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- 1 file (7 folios)
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The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. File notes appear at the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 9; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located 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.
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- IOR/R/15/2/593
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- ‘19/5 SHUNKICHI NOMURA - JAPANESE OIL BROKER’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:8v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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