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File 1283/1913 Pt 5 'MESOPOTAMIA TRADE Issue of new Trade Report' [56r] (107/270)
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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Any communication respecting
this matter should be addressed to The
Comptroller-General, quoting :—
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35, Old Queen Street,
London, S.W.l.
Sir,
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i. I am directed to acknowledge tn^-^c-effix ol
your letter P. 545 of 22nd March enclosing a modified
version of the Report on the prospects of British Irade
in Mesopotamia and the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
by Messrs. Holland
and Wilson.
2. This Department is, however^of opinon that,
in the circumstances, it would be desirable at tnis
date to await the receipt of more recent information from
Mesopotamia/ and for this reason it is not proposed to
circulate the modified version in this country.
3.1 am to add this Department is most grateful for
M'r. Secretary Montagu 1 s action in instructing the Civil
Commissioner, Bagdad, to prepare a new report.
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he Under Secretary of
^tate for India,
Political Dept.,
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.
,
/ London. S.W.l.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
For the Comptroller-General.
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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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