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File 1283/1913 Pt 5 'MESOPOTAMIA TRADE Issue of new Trade Report' [‎6r] (7/270)

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The record is made up of 135 folios. It was created in 24 Nov 1919-27 Oct 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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SUBJECT.
To
Under Secretary. .
Secretary of State.
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Secretary of State.
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10 1939 2000 7/20
FOR INFORMATION.
Mr.Watkins T summary of December 1919
was made when he was at Basrah as Collector
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of Customs. Much information has been
added since, as a result of (a) fresh
territory being brought under His Majesty 1 s
Government 1 s tutelage (b), Mr.Watkin^^d
transfer to 4°**^ and appointment to the
post of Secretary for Commerce.
The following points are noteworthy
in the report:-
l). T Value of Trade 1 figures on p.13,
showing large increase of imports over
pre-war figures. These figures however
are in lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees of Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. , and the increased
prices of commodities have to be ta.&en
into account. Reasons are given in
explanation

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Part 5 of the volume (folios 3-137) consists almost entirely of two extensive and successive government reports about trade conditions in Mesopotamia, following the end of the First World War (1914-1918) and the development of British commercial interests in the region. The later report, printed at the Government Press, Baghdad in 1920, is entitled Report on the conditions for trade in in Mesopotamia prepared in Office of the Civil Commissioner in Baghdad . It includes a communication map which outlines the region’s road and railway network. The earlier report, printed by the Government of India at Calcutta in 1919, is entitled The Prospects of British Trade in Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

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