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File 1283/1913 Pt 5 'MESOPOTAMIA TRADE Issue of new Trade Report' [‎58r] (111/270)

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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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Baghdad, 15th December, IS 19.
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Ag. Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia,
Baghdad.
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he Secretary of state for India,
London, S*W.l* (2 copies.)

I have the honour to forward for favour of transmission
to the Board of Trade a copy of a report by the Chief Collector
of Customs, Basrah with regard to Trade Conditions in Mesopota
mia together with a copy of Foreign Office telegram of the
BOth September calling for the same.
a. I regret that pressure of work, owing to recent events
on the Upper Euphrates, and the time limit imposed by the
Foreign Office telegram in question, prevent^ me from recasting
this report and submitting further information in amplification
thereof.
3. Broadly speaking the situation may be summarized as follow
(a) The economic position of this country is fairly satis
factory An East India Company trading post. .
(b) Import trade with the United Kingdom has grown greatly
since the war and will still further improve provided improved
transport facilities by sea and by land are forthcoming*
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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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