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Coll 7/5 'Afghanistan: purchase of arms etc. from foreign sources: Germany' [204r] (407/1035)
The record is made up of 1 file (517 folios). It was created in 3 Jul 1931-24 Oct 1939. 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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7
Schedule 1.
(Kefcrrcd to in Article * 2 .)
In the nulla bed running from Landi Khana to i’ainda Khak
J’ost. the Afghan frontier has been advanced approximately
TOO yards, and the Tor Kham ilidge, including Shamsa Kandao
and Shamsa Kandao Sar, is comprised in Afghan territory.
Further, the Afghan frontier has been advanced between the point
where the present boundary joins the Kabul Uiver and Palosai from
the centre of the river to the right bank.
Schedule 11.
Legations and Consulates.
{a.) The Legations, Consulate-General and Consulates 1 1 the
two High Contracting Parties shall at no time be used as places of
refuge for political or ordinary offenders or as places of assembly foi
the furtherance of seditious or criminal movements or as magazines
of arms.
{b.) The Minister of His Britannic Majesty at the Court of
Kabul shall, together with his family. Secretaries, Assistants,
Attaches and any of hi^ menial or domestic servants or his couriers
who are British subjects, be exempt from the civil jurisdiction of
the Afghan Government, provided that he shall furnish from time
to time to the Afghan Government a list of persons in respect of
whom such exemption is claimed, and, under a like pio^iso, the
Minister of the Amir to the Royal Court of London to which all the
Ambassadors of States are accredited shall, together with his
family, Secretaries, Assistants, Attaches and any of his menial or
domestic servants or his couriers who are Afghan subjects, be
exempt from the civil jurisdiction of Great Britain. If an offence oi
crime is committed by an Afghan subject against the British
Minister or the persons above mentioned who are attached to the
British Legation, the case shall be tried according to the local Law
by the Courts of Afghanistan within whose jurisdiction the offence
is committed, and the same procedure shall be observed vice versa
with regard to offences committed in England by British subjects
against the Afghan Minister or other persons above mentioned
attached to the Afghan Legation.
(c.) (i.) A Consul-General, Consuls and members of their staffs
and households, who are subjects of the State in which they are
employed, shall remain subject in all respects to the jurisdiction,
laws and regulations of such State.
(iiL A Consul-General, Consuls and members of their staffs and
households, other than subjects of the State in which they are
employed, shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Courts of such
State, in respect of any criminal offence committed against the
Government or subjects of such State, provided that no Consul-
General. Consul or member of their staff or Household shall suffer
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The file contains correspondence regarding the purchase of weapons and ammunition by the Afghan Government from Germany and other sources. It includes correspondence between Afghan Officials -- the Foreign Minister, the Legations to Paris and London, and the Consulate of Afghanistan in India -- and British Officials, including 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. Political Department, HM Minister Kabul (Richard Maconachie), the Foreign Office, the War Office, and HM Ambassador to Berlin (Neville Henderson).
The file opens with correspondence regarding the alleged purchase in 1931 of arms from Germany, in violation of Article 170 of the Treaty of Versailles. It is determined that the arms in question originated in Poland, with funding from the German Government. Later correspondence documents the British decision not to protest against such treaty violations, in light of the obligation on Britain to not interfere with the supply of arms to Afghanistan as agreed in the Anglo-Afghan Treaty (1921).
Arrangements for the purchase, licensing and transport of arms to Afghanistan from Czechoslovakia, Germany, Japan, Spain, the USA, France and Belgium are documented in the file. The principal firms involved in these arrangements are: Škoda Works; Rheinmetall-Borsig AG; Dynamit-Actien-Gesellschaft (vormals Alfred Nobel); and Messrs Vickers-Armstrongs Limited. A number of additional firms are mentioned but not named. The file also contains communications received from the Government of India Central Board of Revenue and the Collector of Customs at Karachi, reporting on the arrival and examination of shipments, the validity of export licences, and the payment of customs dues.
The file includes dividers which give lists of correspondence references contained in the file by year. These are placed at the end of the correspondence (folios 2-4).
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- 1 file (517 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 517; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at 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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- Title
- Coll 7/5 'Afghanistan: purchase of arms etc. from foreign sources: Germany'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:10v, 12r:21v, 23r:23v, 25r:27v, 29r:42v, 44r:60v, 62r:65v, 67r:67v, 69r:74v, 76r:77v, 80r:80v, 82r:145v, 149r:160v, 162r:169v, 171r:174v, 176r:205r, 206r:248v, 250r:254v, 256r:334v, 336r:357v, 359r:370v, 372r:378v, 380r:390v, 392r:394v, 396r:398v, 400r:418v, 420r:420v, 422r:428v, 430r:431v, 433r:443v, 445r:451v, 453r:456v, 458r:462v, 465r:465v, 468r:474v, 476r:481v, 484r:496v, 498r:517v, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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