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Letter (Secret No. 27) from Austen Chamberlain to Charles Hardinge, Governor General of India in Council, with enclosures [71v] (8/8)
The record is made up of 1 file (4 folios). It was created in 10 Dec 1915. 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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8
ENCLOSURE No. 8
-Extract from Admiralty letter No. C.P. K>7,81ii 85,7o3,
* dated Sth November 1915, to
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.
.
Paragraph 3.- With reference to your letter of the 16th October lllla,
p 3605 concerning the defence of the oil-iielde and pipe-line m SAV. 1 ereia, 1
am to state that my lairds conai.lcr that the proposals put forward by the
Inter-departmentul Committee cover all that is necessary.
(Signed)
W. Oraham Gukbnk.
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The memorandum consists of a copy of a letter from Austen Chamberlain to the Governor General of India and its enclosures. The purpose of the letter being to forward recent discussion — within the British Government — concerning the defence of the oil fields and pipelines of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in Persia.
The enclosures (folios 69-71) consist of various communications between 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. and the following Government departments: the Admiralty, the War Office, and the Foreign Office. Annexed to enclosure no. 5 is a copy of the 'Report of Departmental Committee on the Defence of the Persian Oil-fields, &c' (see folios 69v-71). This report briefly outlines the arrangements between the British and both the Bakhtiari Khans and the Shaikh of Mohammerah for the protection of the oil fields. It also outlines the measures to be taken to increase their immediate defence, and further measures to be taken in the event of war threatening them.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at f 68, and terminates at f 71, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the item also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Letter (Secret No. 27) from Austen Chamberlain to Charles Hardinge, Governor General of India in Council, with enclosures
- Pages
- 68r:71v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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