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Coll 5/20 ‘Air Route to India – Arab Coast Secn: Negotiations with Trucial Sheikhs’ [321r] (652/1290)
The record is made up of 1 file (636 folios). It was created in 17 Feb 1932-6 May 1940. It was written in English, Arabic 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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Appendix Ho.l to senior Harnl offioer, Persian Onlf
coramunlcation Bo. 126/687 dated loth June, 1932.
Qini* ,hh .umdimq gag -iib at
in fay last report of prooeedin^e dated 9 th t
1932, So* 96/587 # the position at 3 harJak up to 30th ^prii
wait •hewn to be imsatisfactory, j was m passage to Sharjah
In fBIAB at the urgent request of the Honourable the political
Resident in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
to report on the situation there
and he himself was making arrangements to fly down there to
Join me* It is of Interest to describe In some detail the
proceedings of the xolitical Resident, the Officer commanding
20$ (Flying Boat) 8 ^uadron f myself and the Commanding officers
under my com and throughout the month of May, for such an
account will preside a good example of the difficulties which
arise when negotiating with the primitive rulers on the
True!al Coast.
2. X arrived at Sharjah on 1st May. The
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
Agent
called at once and reported that ell was quiet in the Town*
The sheikh., who is very short of money, me most anxious to
grant facilities for a landing ground and rest house. .But hie
people, who had been influenced by some anti-air firebrands
from Dob at . were against any such grant. Mohamad, the Sheikh «
full Brother, seemed anxious to ’’run with the hare and huno
with the hew rids", in other words he woulfl for * time be in
foil agreement with the Sheikh, then he would Join the tome-
people end lead their notables in their snti-air polley.
sheikh saltan ws ondoubtadly anxious about Mohamad a
influence in the town. The Sheikhs
Bebai were intri,™ing against him. left
him fee felt unable to eig** the agreement
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rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
odd which had be® offered him.
3. on aid J^ p ^tor^e < t«litlola*aeeident 0 *o
him to Hr ink well kefwe rrfMȤ ^h.rjah onoe more.
was talcing the there would be no interference
I also re-assured him that to aB a child ran.
in his town with property ®J* w th0 anti-air agitators
Apparently great play h ^^ f ra ^ at aif* t happen to the women
who presented R'^ i^^ul^de were ubeeat on the pearling
and ohildran *t Jwv, t ^ 1 a not e^m very anxious at this inter-
banks. The Sheikh did not * preferring no doubt to
arrived by air ®« f Lffthtay *® prooeededfaharjah. «h®^
TRIAD at D©b©i. bn the ^ * vhole day® Negotiating.
the
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.
spent t emnt and was deaf to
The 3 hoito refused to sle*^ W finals told him^
every argument, ime - a b0 ^ea as eerou^u . a
£r.w^ » r'””” 1 '
™ w uoi - o „„„ tt .
5 . it had donated to «.
the attitude he was now tbe first insttn-o- It w
the
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.
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The file is largely made up of correspondence, with occasional internal 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. notes, and records of inter-departmental meetings. The subject matter is the establishment of an aerodrome on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. to facilitate the transfer of Imperial Airways' Europe-India route from Southern Persia to the Arabian Coast. There is some material related to the selection of a suitable site. However, much of the file is concerned with negotiations with Shaikh Sultan bin Saqar, Ruler of Sharjah; Sharjah was selected by British officials as the most promising site for a landing ground. The file therefore contains a number of reports on the political situation at Sharjah, the progress of negotiations, and discussion over terms and conditions. A copy of the final agreement can be found on folios 225-228.
The agreement with the Shaikh of Sharjah provided for the construction of a rest house to be owned by the Shaikh but rented by Imperial Airways. The file therefore includes discussion relating to arrangements for the financing and construction of the rest house. There is also a detailed consideration of the measures needed to ensure its security, and measures to be taken by British forces in the event of an attack on the facility: see folios 18-27 for a copy of the Sharjah Defence Scheme .
The file also contains discussion between British officials over their response to the following two proposals submitted by the Government of the Netherlands: a proposal for Anglo-Dutch-French co-operative partnership in approaching civil aviation matters linking Europe and the Far East, with a particular view to negotiations with Persia; and a request for access to the Arab Coast air route.
In addition to the immediate response to the Netherlands Government, the file includes discussion related to how British policy over the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. should develop in response to developments in civil aviation.
Also contained within the file are a number of papers circulated by the Committee of Imperial Defence's Standing Official Sub-committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East. These papers relate to a proposal from Imperial Airways to use landplanes along the Arabian Coast route instead of flying boats; the file contains extensive technical comparisons between the ‘Hannibal’ four engine landplane (the Handley Page H.P.42) and three engine ‘Calcutta’ flying boat (the Short S.8).
There is a limited amount of discussion, towards to front of the correspondence, over the state of British negotiations with Persia. However, this is not the focus of the file.
A couple of letters from the Government of the Netherlands are in French (see folios 296-301) and the final agreement with the Shaikh of Sharjah (folios 225-228) is in both English and Arabic. The vast majority of the file is in English.
The main correspondents are as follows: the 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. (Hugh Vincent Biscoe, and later Trenchard Craven William Fowle), the 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. at Kuwait (Harold Richard Patrick Dickson), and the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . It also includes correspondence with officials of the following governmental departments: the Admiralty, the Air Ministry, the Foreign Office, 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. , and the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India.
Most of the material in the file covers the period 1932 to 1935. Only a single letter, dated 31 March 1940, falls outside this range.
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 (636 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 637; 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. An additional foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the two leading and ending flyleaves.
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- Title
- Coll 5/20 ‘Air Route to India – Arab Coast Secn: Negotiations with Trucial Sheikhs’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:44v, 48r:58v, 64r:68v, 72r:89v, 91r:224v, 229r:295v, 302r:306r, 307r:319v, 321r:359v, 360v:495v, 497r:574v, 577r:597v, 602r:620v, 622r:625v, 630r:637v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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