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File 3877/1912 Pt 4 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ [42r] (25/176)
The record is made up of 1 part (87 folios). It was created in 22 Apr 1914-15 Sep 1914. It was written in English and French. 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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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty’s Government.]
10 i I r a ? 1 r 0 Sir E * Gre y has no wish to add anything to the letter of the
18th July from this Department, except in regard to the second paragraph of your
letter of the 28th instant, in which you refer to the final paragraph of your letter of the
1 st instant as having been left unnoticed. The subject to which you allude was
Sir E. Grey understands, mentioned at a personal interview for which Mr. Verey of
your firm, pressed. All that it was intended to convey to Mr. Verey on that occasion
was that, from the records and dates of Mr. Silley’s conversations with a representative
of His Majesty s Embassy at Constantinople, it was hard to believe that he was not
aware of serious impediments to the grant of licences when he first acquired an interest
m certain Turkish claims. The impediments in question are the firmans of 1889,1898,
and 1902 , and, even if they had been non-existent, Mr. Silley must have been aware
that he would have been debarred, in respect of the majority, at any rate, of his claims,
by article 4o of the mining regulations, with which you and your client are presumably
fully conversant.
CONFIDENTIAL.
TURKEY.
[July 30.]
[34530]
No. 1 .
Foreign Office to Messrs. Treherne, Higgins, and Co.
I have, &c.
EYRE A. CROWE.
[2193 gg—l]
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Correspondence and papers relating to claims for exploratory oil licenses in Ottoman Turkey (including the vilayets of Baghdad, Mosul and Basra in Mesopotamia [Iraq], and Syria and Nejd). Principal correspondents include: the solicitors Treherne, Higgins and Company, who represent the oil explorer Roland H Silley; representatives of the Central Mining and Investment Corporation Limited (L Reynolds; Louis Julius Reyersbach); Foreign Office (FO) officials (Sir Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe; Sir Louis Du Pan Mallet).
- correspondence concerning Silley’s claims (competing with those made by the D’Arcy Group and Anglo-Persian Oil Company) over mining rights in the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad, an historical précis of which can be found in a letter dated 14 May 1914 from Treherne, Higgins & Company to the Foreign Office (ff 111-112);
- correspondence concerning Silley’s attempts to secure oil licenses in Nejd, Silley’s efforts to contact the prospective Vali of Nejd, Bin Saud (‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd), and discussion amongst FO officials over the prospects of the Turkish Petroleum Company (in large part financed by Deutsche Bank and the Dutch Anglo-Saxon Oil Company) having a presence in Arabia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ;
- a note, written by Sulaiman Nassif, enclosed with a letter dated 27 April 1914, on petroleum prospecting concession licenses in Syria (f 105).
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- 1 part (87 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front.
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- 30r:33v, 36r:42v, 44r:44v, 46r:66v, 68r:69v, 71r:91v, 93r:99v, 101r:104v, 106r:110v, 113r:117v
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