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Ext 329/43(2) ‘SHIPMENT OF DATES TO PERSIAN GULF STATES’ [43r] (85/226)
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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\ Ir Xn any oase the communication of the contents of this document
to any person outside Government Service is authorised* It must
oe paraphrased) ... *• . ■ - *
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Allotted, t o t an d 0» J )epa rtnient .
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i?rora Political Hesident in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
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Repeated to Govemment of India, and
Received 04.SO hours? 15th February, 1944
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Secretary of State for India, k. Ulc^ oJ-^ ^
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Dated BUBiiire, 17. 45 hours, 11th February. 1944*. k ^ ‘-V
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Addressed to Secretary of State for India repeated
Government of India ?md 6.E.S.G.
I delayed replying to your telegram 1127 until I had been
to Basra and Cairo* Your telegram 2982 reached ms on my return*
2. Your first telegram raised quest ions of (A) withholding by
Shaikh of Roweit of dates from his garden* (B} Failure to produce
dhows. (0) Insistence on {V particular) varieties and CD) former
sources of supply.
3. (a). It is not practical to aak Sheikh to sell to Andrew
Weir and then re (omission) his own dates at vastly ^enhanced
prieee., Pelly tells me that Persian dhows-(V have) offered large
quantities in Koweit harbour an d requirements have now been met *
This may be relic of former transit trade. ^ e lat<^ ^' 7' Irl' ■
^l| 4. As ‘regards (B) (f dhows) were actually sent and returned
"i empty amd Murchison did not dispute this. As regards (0) we have
admittedly insisted on gayer dates but this is cheapest and poorest
quality and moreover other varieties offered do not keep.
5. ^ It is difficult to give exact answer to (D) as Bahrain *
formerly kept date statistics by price and not quantity and Truela1
Coast had no figures at all, but both certainly purchased largely
[from Saudi Arabiav Export of Hasa dates as however been- totally
prohibited for second year in aucceeaxoix. Efforts to obtain dates
there had. mot with, little success.
am posting you figures obtained from Murchison regarding
cost of dates (copy given M.J5.8.G*) which, support our claims. The
( price reductions mentioned, in your telegram 2982 is welcomed but
scarcely helps as elates are still unavailable in any quantity. In
the circumstance a I do not feel I can trace responsibility of urging
states to hold buck as there is no guarantee that dates will be
v forthcoming and you will recall that this is second time we have
x suffered*
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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.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (111 folios)
- Arrangement
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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- IOR/L/PS/12/788
- Title
- Ext 329/43(2) ‘SHIPMENT OF DATES TO PERSIAN GULF STATES’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:50v, 52r:112v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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