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File 1283/1913 Pt 5 'MESOPOTAMIA TRADE Issue of new Trade Report' [8r] (11/270)
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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Minute Paper.
Department.
1
British firms already in the field, and, i>he
greatest problem of all. Labour (v«Mr•Watkins 1
report of December 1919)•
(Shipping and freights are discussed in Mr.
Watkins 1 letter of 1919).
The points most striking in the situation would
seem to be the close trade connection bet?/een
Mesopotamia and Persia, the considerable resources
of the country if only methods could be improved,
and the scarcity of labour.
As regards Persia, Mesopotamia being the
channel through which so much is imported to Persia,
British Trade would probably be interested to see
a trade situation report for Persia alongside the
report for Mesopotamia.
There is one field readti for immediate
enterprise, i.e. the exploiting of the wealth of
Reeds in Lower Mesopotamia. A firm has applied for
a concession. But the Foreign Office are against
concessions "being given until the peace treaty is
ratified for fear of incurring unfriendly
representations from the United States Government,
etc.:yet the world shortage of paper is acute.
(SD)H.MABRS.
1 . 10 . 20 .
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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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- File 1283/1913 Pt 5 'MESOPOTAMIA TRADE Issue of new Trade Report'
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- 3r:137v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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