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Ext 329/43(2) ‘SHIPMENT OF DATES TO PERSIAN GULF STATES’ [‎15r] (29/226)

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The record is made up of 1 file (111 folios). It was created in 6 Mar 1943-5 May 1945. 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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INWARD TELEGRAM
Allotted to E & Q oDepartment,
CYPHER TELEGRAM (CAT.?.?
Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. In the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
Secretary of State for India*
Government of India.
Bushire ? 16.20 hours, 11th June, 1944*
20.00 hours, 11th June, 1944.
SECRET
20295
„ *
Prom
To
Repeated to
Dated
Received
1569.
Addressed tcs Secretary of State for India repeated Government
of Indian Your telegram 10840 May 10th o Dates.
After their experiences of last season Aral Sheikhdoms are
very (? reluctant) to have any further dealing with Andrew Weir
•and would prefer to purchase their requirements through their own
agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. *
2. For following reasons I find it impossible to bring pressure
to bear on Sheikhdoms to accept Ministry of Pood (? Scheme).
(a) Lack of guarantee of economic price.
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(b) Lack of assurance that Sheikhdoms* full requirements' will
he met., Total imports of dates by Sheikhdoms from all sources
during'last season was (omission) half of 34,000 tons*
(0) Heavy losses incurred last season by Sheikhdoms being
forced to purchase at uneconomic price,,
(d) Large quantities of dates are at present being offered
for sale in Bahrain at 40 per cent of price paid by Bahrain
Government for dates purohas( ?ed. from) Andre?/ Weir. Bahrain
Government are therefore being left with latter on their hands.
(e) Common knowledge in States that Andrew Weir (corrupt group)
left with large quantity of last/ season r »3- dates on their hands*
.(f) Total lack of belief in (? ability) of Iraq Government to
control either prices or smuggling*
* — \
3o The most that can be promised now (? is) that if Andrew Weir
can offer sufficient quantities of dates at an economic price
every endeavour will be made to encourage Sheikhdoms to purchase
from them. In absence of definite guarantee as to both (a) price
and (b) adequacy of supplies it is not possible to go beyond this*

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The file is concerned with the supply of dates to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. States – Bahrain, Kuwait, and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. – via a co-ordinated purchasing scheme in Iraq operated by the Ministry of Food through their agents Andrew Weir and Company.

The main correspondents are as follows: the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. (Sir Charles Geoffrey Prior), officials of 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. , officials of the Middle Eastern Supply Centre, officials of the Ministry of Food, officials of the Ministry for War Transport, and occasionally representatives of the Government of India.

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.

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1 file (111 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

The subject Ext 329/43 (Supply of Food to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ) consists of three files: IOR/L/PS/12/786-788.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 113; 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.

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