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Coll 6/37 'Jeddah Situation Reports: Distribution.' [‎2r] (3/56)

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The record is made up of 1 file (26 folios). It was created in 6 Mar 1926-27 Oct 1932. 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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H.A.P. Metcalfe, ,
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Foreign Secy, to the
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2 7 OCT 1932
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Will you kindly refer to your
Personal ana Confidential letter of
Lna August to Walton about the
Jeaua reports. We sent you hy the
air mail of 1st September a copy of
the private letter which we wrote
to the Foreign Office on its
receipt, ana I now enclose a copy of
their reply.
2. The Foreign Office letter, I
think, speaks for itself. We had
not, however, hitherto realised that
Bushire and Koweit received copies
direct from Jedua. If this is the
case there seems no urgency about
sending them on copies from the
Government of India. We will,
therefore, continue to send the same
number as at present to you, and we
hope that tne availability, for
practical purposes, of two extra
copies may go some way to meet the
Government of India's difficulties
I need not say that we entirely
agree with the arrangements
proposed in paragraph 3 of your
letter of 2nd August as regards the
circulation of extracts.
Yours sincerely,
J. G. LAITHWAITE.
.

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This file documents changes to the distribution and general nature of situation reports produced by the British Consulate (later Legation) at Jedda. It features correspondents from the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office, 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 Government of India's Foreign and Political Department.

According to the file, copies of the reports were sent directly to Bushire, Muscat, Singapore, Koweit [Kuwait], and Bahrein [Bahrain] until April 1926, when it was arranged that five copies of each report would be sent to the Government of India via 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. , before being distributed to the Government of India's Foreign and Political Department and to Bushire, Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat respectively. Subsequent correspondence in the file discusses the following: requests from the Government of India for additional copies of the report, the Legation's and Foreign Office's reluctance to comply with these requests on the grounds of practicality and discretion, and a proposal made by His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan) in 1932 to change the format of the report to that of a newsletter and to reduce its length by a third.

The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence (folio 1).

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1 file (26 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 28; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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