File 74/1915 Pt 6 'Mesopotamia: Banking Arrangements - The Eastern Bank's Branches at Mosul (+ Kermanshah). Embargo on Eastern Bank's Drafts at Aleppo' [58r] (115/158)
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Draft Paper.
PGIililCAl iKD SECRET
Department.
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or
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The Manager,
Eastern Bank, Limited.,
4, Crosby Square, E.C.3.,
(1)7833) Wt. I’i490/57 Go.163 3000 1 18 W B & L
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.
,
WHITEHALL, S.'7. 1.,
2 cj April, 1910.
Sir,
I am directed by the
Secretary of State for India to
acknowledge the receipt pf your
letter of.the 27th March, 1919,
regarding the proposal to open
a. branch of the ^astern Bank
Limited at Kermsnshah. ? T r.
Secretary Montagu desires me to
express his appreciation of the
action of your Director? in
acquiescing in t^e views of His
Majesty’s Government on tnis
noint.
Montagu has been in
communication with the Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs in
regard to the intention of the
Bank, of which you ^ere good
enough to inform him in the last
paragraph of your letter, to
open a branch at ? T osu! in the
immediate future. As your
Directors are oerhans aware,
there ore diplomatic reasons
which place the Vilayet of
Mosul, under existing conditions,
in
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This part mainly consists of correspondence, and 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. minutes and internal notes, relating to the Eastern Bank, including papers concerning: the desire of the Eastern Bank to open a branch at Kermanshah in Persia [Iran]; the Bank opening a branch at Mosul in Mesopotamia [Iraq]; the prohibition on dealings with the Eastern Bank’s demand drafts; and the Eastern Bank opening a branch at Bahrain (Bahrein).
It includes correspondence between the 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. and the following: the Eastern Bank Limited; the Foreign Office; and the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad.
The file also includes a copy letter from the Consul, Imperial Consulate of Persia, Ordnance Works, Sheffield, to the Foreign Office, and a copy reply from the Foreign Office, July 1920, regarding the proposal of the Persian Consul to establish an Anglo-Persian Commercial and Trading Bank in Persia.
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