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File 1202/1912 'Arabia:- Travellers. Capt. F. F Hunter. Herr Runkiar (Danish Expedition). Capt Shakespear.' [‎174r] (352/358)

The record is made up of 1 volume (175 folios). It was created in 4 Sep 1908-5 Mar 1920. 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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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty s Govemmeiit,!
PERSIA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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[November 29.]
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No. 1.
Section 4.
Sir A. Johnstone to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received November 29.)
(No. 152.)
gi rj ' Copenhagen, November 21, 1909.
1 HAVE the honour to enclose translation from the “ Dannehrog ’ of to-day of
an official announcement of the Royal Danish Geographical Society respecting a pro
posed expedition in 1910 to the lands bordering on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , as well as of an
interview between the Secretary of the Society and a correspondent of the newspaper.
Admiral Richelieu is said to be at the head of the committee organising the expedi
tion, and Herr von Gliickstadt is one of the members of it. _
Both these gentlemen are well known in Denmark for their connection with
banking and commercial business here, and especially for their interests in Danish
industrial enterprises in Siam.
I should be grateful if instructions could be sent me whether or not 1 am to
mention this matter to Herr Scavenius, and request an explanation of the exact scope o
the proposed expedition. . . in
As you are probably aware there is a small arms establishment m Denmark where
the Danish rifle mitrailleuse Rekul Gevaer -303" is manufactured. 1 believe that full
details as to this rifle have been furnished to the War Office by Lieutenant-Colone
Yarde-Buller, Military Attache to His Majesty’s legation.
I have, &c.
ALAN JOHNSTONE.
P.S. (Confidential).—Herr Olufsen, the Secretary of the Geographical Society, made
in 18'J6 and 1898 journeys into the interior of Central A.ha and ins proceedings were /
reported to the Foreign Office by Sir C. Scott, the late Sir E. lane and by myself (last /,
despatch on the subject, Sir E. Fane’s No. 72 of the 25th September 1898). He was
then warned against approaching too closely to Afghanistan, and did not attempt to
do so f"
Special facilities for the purpose of scientific research in India were^at the request , f 3 /c
of M. de Bille, granted in 1907 by His Majesty’s Government to a certain Herr Benedictsen C
(see Foreign Office despatch No. 43, Confidential, of the 3rd June 1908). But the
Government of India came to the conclusion that Benedictsen in reality belonged to t
Russian Intelligence Department, and the facilities were withdrawn
With respect to the question of arms exported from Denmark, I may mei t
the Russian Minister here told me some time ago that during the height of the hmmsh
revolutionary movement in the years 1907-08, the Russian Government employed a
secret service agent in Denmark, who discovered that extensive shipments of arms and
ammunition wefe being forwarded to Finland in Danish bottoms, a though the a^ms and
ammunition themselves were manufactured m other countries and that he was able
through this agent to warn his Government m time to prevent their being landed.
fdo not suggest that the Danish shipping and commercial hr ms wdl endeavour to
smuggle arms into Persia, but I only remark that they _ 0OTa .
Prince Koudacheff himself, when 1 mentioned the subject of this proposed geo &
phical expedition, said he knew nothing about it. ^ ^
Inclosure in No. 1.
Extract from the “ Dannebrog ” of November 21, 1909.
-A Short
A Danish Expedition to the Countries round the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
Interview with Professor Olufsen.
ai ' a THE Geographical Society issued the following statement yesterday evening
“The Committee of the Royal Geographical Society have taken the initiative
in a plan for sending an expedition to the countries around the Peisiau G .
[2491 ff — 4]
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The volume concerns expeditions by British officers and by the Royal Danish Geographical Society into the interior of Arabia.

The papers cover: plans by the Royal Danish Geographical Society to explore the countries around the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , 1909; the refusal of British officials to sanction a proposed journey by Captain Frederick Fraser Hunter of the Survey of India (by motor car from Medina across mainland Arabia to Abu Thabi [Abu Dhabi] and then on to Mokalla [Al Mukalla]), on the grounds of possible Turkish suspicions, 1910; the refusal of the Foreign Office to grant permission to British officers to make journeys into Mesopotamia after Turkish suspicions had been aroused by a number of such journeys, 1910; a proposed expedition by the Royal Danish Geographical Society to explore Oman and the Hadramaut [Hadramawt], 1911; the successful expedition of Barclay Raunkiær on behalf of the Royal Danish Geographical Society into Nejd via Kuwait, including failed British attempts to obstruct the expedition, and an investigation by the Government of India into how Raunkiær came to receive assistance from Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear, 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. , Kuwait, 1911-12; correspondence concerning Shakespear's own journey from Kuwait to Suez, 1913-14; and correspondence dated 1920 concerning a journey from Constantinople to Basrah made by Captain Frank R Teesdale in 1910.

Note: Raunkiær's name is rendered as 'Runkiar' in the file title.

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1 volume (175 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

The subject 1202 (Travellers) consists of one volume only.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 177; 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 present between ff 3-176 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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