File 74/1915 Pt 6 'Mesopotamia: Banking Arrangements - The Eastern Bank's Branches at Mosul (+ Kermanshah). Embargo on Eastern Bank's Drafts at Aleppo' [75r] (149/158)
The record is made up of 1 item (79 folios). It was created in 30 Dec 1918-30 Jul 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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1 think as trade develops under more settled conditions
there v/ill he roo) ; i tor more than one Bank in Persia and that
healthy competition may then.he encouraged. But at pre: ut
it seems more important to get Imperial Bonk of Per si:
established as otate Bank of Persian Governmon'n Al :0 Jr
may he desirable, as in the past, to have means of exercising
pressure on Persian Government by making Bank cut off supplies
and it we admit competition we cannot will use Bank in th:U
way. I would therefore prefer not to encourage advent of
another Bank until question of financial reform in Persia
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takes a more definite shape.
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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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- File 74/1915 Pt 6 'Mesopotamia: Banking Arrangements - The Eastern Bank's Branches at Mosul (+ Kermanshah). Embargo on Eastern Bank's Drafts at Aleppo'
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- 1r:10v, 12r:21v, 24r:27v, 29r:52v, 54r:55v, 57r:66v, 68r:78v
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