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File 1283/1913 Pt 5 'MESOPOTAMIA TRADE Issue of new Trade Report' [80r] (155/270)
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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Draft Paper.
Political Sc Secret
Department.^ g*.
The Comptroller-General,
Department of Overseas i'rade.
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INDIA OTPICE.
AO.
Sir,
I am directed hy the
Secretary of State for India to
acknowledge the receipt of your
letter dated the 1st January in
which it is suggested, with
reference to the Report on the
Prospects of British Trade in
Mesopotamia and the Persian
Gulf prepared in 1917 hy Messrs.
Holland and Wilson, that the
Civil Commissioner, Baghdad, ^should
arrange for the preparation of a
new and up-to-date report, and to
forward for information a copy of a
letter that is being addressed to
the Civil Commissioner, v/ith a copy
of the letter from the Foreign
Office of the 20th January,
referred to therein.
I am also to take the opportunity
of forwarding ten copies of an
expurgated edition of Messrs.
Holland and Wilson 1 s report
prepared by the Government of
India for communication
confidentially to selected British
firms and institutions in India.
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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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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