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‘Masqat Arms Traffic. 1908–1909.’ [‎35r] (74/128)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (60 folios). It was created in 1909. It was written in English and French. 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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he may well have spent as much as R s .
1,250.
The traders say that after deducting
their expenses at Rs. 20 per rifle they
make a profit of 400 to 450 per cent, on
each rifle, and in addition to this they are
one camel to the good on each lot of 20
rifles.
Answers to miscellaneons questions.
These points were not mentioned in the ori
ginal instructions given to our men.
1* Last year after the Afghans had their
dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. captured by the gunboat at Jashk,
they wanted to attack the British Con
sulate there. They were dissuaded from
this by Mir Barkat Khan (who was running
oil their business) as he said be would get
into trouble.
2. This year there was no talk of attack
ing the Consulate or Telegraph Station,
nor ol damaging the telegraph and tele
phone lines.
3. The Afghans apparently do not con
nect their loss of last year with the Tele
graph Department, they think it was en
tirely due to the gun-boats. Our men did
not hear Mr. New’s name mentioned.
From what they saw and heard, the
gun-runners considered themselves per
fectly safe when once they had landed
their arms on the Persian coast.
4. Our men heard and saw nothing of
dhows flying the French flag.
The Sultan of Masqat is reported to have 5. Neither Afghans nor Masqat mer-
bought recently six cannons for his own use. chants men ti 0 ned Orders for caDDOn or
machine guns.
6. The Afghans have no system of
espionage on the Navy. The nakhudas
do whatever there is to be done in this
line. They seem to be quite confident
of giving the gun-boats the slip.
7. The Afghans say that they mean to
fight hard if the gun-boats attack them.
They hear that in last year’s fight thjir
Mauser bullets went through the side of
the gun-boats, and they now think that
they will be able to do a lot of damage
to the crews.

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Bound volume containing two secret reports, both authored by Colonel Wilfrid Malleson (referred to as Division of the Chief of the Staff in the first report, and Assistant Quarter Master General for Intelligence in the second), and both issued by the Division of the Chief of the Staff in 1909.

The first report is entitled Statistics regarding the Masqat [Muscat] Arms Traffic (Revised.) (ff 4-16), and contains several appendices and fold-out tables giving details of: caravan routes along which arms trafficking is carried out on the Makran coast; total values of arms and ammunition imported into Muscat and other Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ports; importers and (European) exports of arms.

The second report is entitled Special Reports on the Masqat Arms Traffic, Season 1908-09 (ff 17-60), and comprises a number of reports on the arms trade through Muscat, submitted by ‘secret agents’, and a map illustrating the arms traffic from Muscat to Persia, Baluchistan and Afghanistan (f 59). The report also includes two appendices, lettered G and H. Appendix G is a letter (in French) dated 28 October 1907, from M Pick to Messieurs Malcom and Company of Muscate [Muscat]. Appendix H comprises lists (in French) of arms for sale, with prices given in French francs.

The voluime includes a map illustrating the Muscat arms traffic, dated 1909, indicating routes taken by the Muscat arms trade from the Persian (Makran) coast and inland, into Persia, Baluchistan and Afghanistan (f 59).

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1 volume (60 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 62; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

Pagination: this part also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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