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'Report on the Arms Traffic, 1st July 1911 to 30th June 1913 (including a note on the operations of the Makran Field Force in April and May 1911)' [‎8v] (16/44)

The record is made up of 1 volume (20 folios). It was created in 1911-1913. 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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Cost of blockade operations.
Actuals.
Expended
at
Home.
E\pended
in
India.
Total.
Rs.
Rs.
Rs.
1909-10
2,74,305
3,93,384
6,67,689
1910-11
14,78,490
13,27,130
28,06,070
1911-12
10,56,300
9,55,072
20,11,372
1912-13 (Budget Estimate)
12,15,000
7,85,000
20,00,000
Total
••
74,85,131
Over two-thirds of this expenditure is accounted for by Marine charges, the
chief items being the additional subsidy paid to the Admiralty on account of extra
naval vessels, hire of launches, and coal bill. For the year ending 31st March
1913 the Government of India advanced to the Admiralty the sum of £64,000
When H. M. S. Espie le went to Aden temporarily in 1913, the cost of ’coal
consumed by her was debited to Indian revenues.
The main item of Army charges are on account of the maintenance of the
garrisons m the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and at Robat (Kacha), and the cost of the expedition
to the Makran coast in 1910 and 1911. r
The whole of the cost of the arms traffic blockade is debitable to Indian
revenues. The total cost in 1912-13, as far as known at the end of June 1913 was
Rs. 19,66,72o and the estimate for 1913-14 was Rs. 25,00,500.
In February 1912, when the trade spread further up the Gulf, the Home
Government were asked to share the expense of the extra measures necessitated *
but as the matter involved the consideration of the adequacy of the Indian naval
subsidy, the request was not pressed.
6. Naval Measures.
Out of a fleet of 9 ships, the East Indies Squadron maintainted five shins
permanently m the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , for blockade operations, in addition to providine
personnel for 4 armed launches, the Harold, Karanja, Mashona, and MiLr. ThS
. I. M S. Mmto acted as parent ship to these launches. Sometimes the men-
of-war had cutters down to help blockad 5 certain points.
Es Ih'per r f 00"arms' 3 t0 SllipS companies for ca P tUTe of arms at the rate of
About the middle of January 1913 Rear Admiral R. H. Peirse took over com
mand of the East Indies Squadron from Rear Admiral Sir A. E. Bethell.
,, Traders were becoming much more careful latterly in running cargoes across
the Gulf and seldom committed a large number of rifles to any one dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. . A few
rifles, with small amounts of ammunition, were hidden away in false keels hollow
beams, or packages of ordinary cargo. When these methods of concealment
were found ovt mkhuias’ took to jettisoning the arms on sighting a manmf war
sometimes attaching a float, which they could pick up later? § of - w ar,
The results achieved by the Navy were as follows : -
1911-12 1912-13.
Ammunition. A ms. Ammunition.
Captured li815 ^ 57g
T . Jet “ «9 39,200 1,013 896,500
Nine dhows were burnt in 1911-12 and about 10 in 7 Q 19 iq „ • i
which had a very salutary effect. n x ^ 12 13, a Punishment

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The volume, marked confidential, is Report on the Arms Traffic, 1st July 1911 to 30th June 1913 (including a note on the operations of the Makran Field Force in April and May 1911) , prepared by the General Staff, India, and printed at the Government Monotype Press, 1913. The report begins with a preface (folio 5) and is then divided into seventeen sections, plus appendices. The geographical scope of the report includes Persia, Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , the Arabian Peninsula, and Turkey. The report covers blockade measures, systems of intelligence, exporters from Europe, and prices.

The note on operations of the Makran Field Force comes as an appendix and is written by Captain SG Craufurd, Gordon Highlanders Intelligence Officer, at Jask on 10 May 1911.

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1 volume (20 folios)
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There is a list of contents (folio 4) that refers to the original pagination.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 22; 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.

Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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