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Coll 28/62 ‘Persia. Soviet commercial penetration in:’ [12r] (23/154)
The record is made up of 1 file (74 folios). It was created in 10 Oct 1932-21 Feb 1945. 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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An idontiool policy is beln£ pursued with Hussion oil products,wideh urs
bcin^ traiisportod hundreds of olles into the interior, and sold without any
regard to cost of transport in a doteroinod effort to undersell the produoe
of the Anjlo-Rarolan Oil Company• rhe latter,howevor,do not attach any
^roat izaportanoo to the Persian market,and view these profitless activities
of the Soviets with indifference.
A more serious proposition as far as British trade is concerned
are the Hussion activities in connection with the piece-goods trade. For
many years predominant in the Persian market,British piece-goods have of
late years been meeting with more and more serious competition,notably from
Italy. Since tho transport company n Irtrans H came into operation very large
quantities of Italian goods have made their way into the market,and owing to
the cheaper cost of transport via the Caucasian route,the British goods have
found themselves at a great disadvantage,and have lost ground accordingly.
H'U) Russians tiiemselvos have recently managed to produoe a very limited
quantity of cotton prints, but in their determination to upset British trade
at all coots,they have actually been importing British goods via JUssia,
and underselling the Persian market with them.
They have boon particularly active in this respect in the lieshed
urea,whore,profiting by the existence of the Quetta-Lbsdab railway, Indian
traders had ouocoodod in establishing a growing business, and had begun to
import considerable quantities of piece-goods and other merchandise from
India, fhe Russians felt their own commercial position weakening,and promtly
threw quantities of goods on to tho market. The Indians found themselves
being undersold by goods identical with &ose that they themselves were
importing. Trade bocamo impossible,and uheir business is now in a moribund
condition.
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The first part of the file (ff 52-75) contains correspondence dated 1932, exchanged between: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. in Tehran, Reginald Hervey Hoare; John Gilbert Laithwaite of 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. ; George William Rendel of the Foreign Office; Cecil Claude Farrer of the Department of Overseas Trade. The correspondence is in response to a memorandum entitled ‘Economic characteristics of Russian trade with the South of Persia compared with British’, written by the Probationer Vice-Consul at Bushire, J W Blanch (ff 71-72).
The second part of the file (ff 23-51) contains correspondence dated 1933, exchanged between: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. in Tehran; 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. ; the Foreign Office. The correspondence concerns the need for clear and regular despatches from Tehran on commercial relations between Soviet Russia and Persia. This part of the file contains a memorandum entitled ‘Effects of the Persian Trade Monopoly Laws and the Perso-Soviet Treaty upon Soviet commercial penetration in Persia’ (ff 34-40). The memorandum is undated and its author not stated. However, it bears annotations made by George Edmund Crombie of 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. , which are dated 3 March 1933.
The third part of the file (ff 2-22) contains a letter dated 15 December 1926 enclosing two notes (also 1926) written by Reginald Teague-Jones. The notes were forwarded, in 1945, by John Walter Hose, formerly of 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. , to Roland Tennyson Peel of 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. . The notes are entitled ‘Soviet Commercial Policy in Persia’ (ff 5-14) and ‘The Crucial Problem in Soviet Russia’ (ff 15-22). The accompanying letter (f 4) is signed under Teague-Jones’s pseudonym Ronald Sinclair.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (74 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 76; these numbers are written in pencil 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.
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- Coll 28/62 ‘Persia. Soviet commercial penetration in:’
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- front, front-i, 2r:64r, 64ar, 64v:70r, 70ar, 70v:75v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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