File 74/1915 Pt 5 'Mesopotamia: Banking Facilities' [130r] (101/128)
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The India. Office htive sent to tlie Poreisn
Office the attached telegrams exchanged with the
Chief political Officer, Bagdad, and the Viceroy,
India, regarding banking facilities in the occupied
territories in 'esopotamia,
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.
are disposed to accept the
Government of India's view that existing
arrangements are sufficient for the inmediate needs
of the situation, and that it would be premature, in
Mesopotamia, to encourage further banking enterprise
in the occupied territory. They recall in this
connection that Lord Inchcape, in applying to the
Foreign Office on behalf of Messrs. Mackay, Lynch and
Company, in October 1917, for permission to open
business in Bagdad, expressed his intention of
interesting himself in the banking question, although
as far as is known. His Lordship his not yot raade any
move in the rmtter. 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.
have asked
the Foreirpi Office for any observations they may have
to offer on the v/hole question, and the Foreign Office
/
the present uncertainty as to the future status of
would
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This part contains papers relating to banking facilities in the occupied (by the British) territory of Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The papers consist 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. Minute Papers and internal notes.
The file includes papers relating to: the views of the Government of India and the Department of Overseas Trade on the question of extending banking facilities in the occupied territory; the application of Boulton Bros. & Co. to open a branch of the Alliance Bank of Egypt at Basra; the application of Tata Industrial Bank Limited to open a branch at Basra; and the request by the Colonial Bank for assistance to be given by the local authorities in Baghdad to Mr T Langdon-Bruce and Mr H E Weber, being sent by the Bank to enquire into the conditions obtaining in Mesopotamia and prospects for trade in the country.
The correspondence is mostly 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 Viceroy (of India), Foreign Department; the Foreign Office; the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad (including telegrams sent from ‘Political, Baghdad’); Boulton, Bros. & Co.; the Department of Overseas Trade; and the Colonial Bank.
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