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File 1093/1915 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- Proposed revival of British Consulate at Basra. Portuguese interests in Iraq’ [80r] (11/334)
The record is made up of 1 item (164 folios). It was created in 23 Sep 1922-20 Jun 1929. 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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Nq..C!..Q./472.
THE RSSIjENCY,
BauuDAD,
the 20th May, 1929.
Sir,
I have the honour to refer to the Buke of
Devonshire’s despatch No.1101 dated the 1st of November,
ItA ^ and to para^aph 10 of Sir Henry Dobbs’ despatch
T o, 1 6b daoed tne 7th or November, 1924, relative to the
protection of the interests of Portuguese subjects in
this country.
^• it will be remembered that in 1924 the number
of Goanese in ’Iraq was said to be in the nei^hoourhood
1,^00. fhis estimate may nov/ be .greatly reduced, but
no definite figure can be given. In the records of the
years 124-28 it is difficult to trace a single instance
of a Poi wuguese subjeco having applied to my Secretariat
i.or assistance such as he would expect to receive from
a Portuguese Consul. Although, as explained in bir Henry
Doobs’ despatch quoted, facilities do exist here for the
registration of Portuguese births, deaths and marriages,
only two birtns, one death and nine marriages have in
fact been so registered since that despatch was written.
As you are aware the registers of births, deaths and
marriages maintained under the British Subjects’ Registra
tion of Births, Deaths and Marriages Proclamation, 1919,
were transferred to my Secretariat in 1925. Maintenance
of
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Correspondence and other papers concerning the proposed re-appointment of a British Consul at Basra, and how the new post should be funded. Subjects covered include: whether the Consul at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] could also be appointed Consul at Basra (the two places being in close geographical proximity); the High Commissioner for Iraq’s (Henry Robert Conway Dobbs) argument that a full-time Consul is required for the post; discussion between officials from the Government of India and the Foreign Office about who should fund the new appointment; assessments of the importance of British trade in Mesopotamia, including tables of statistical data outlining diplomatic and consular expenditure in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. , and trade between India and Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. ; the Government of India’s refusal to contribute to the cost of the Basra Consulate; the transfer of land and property associated with Basra consulate from the Government of India to HM’s Office of Works; a further report written by Dobbs, dated 1928, arguing for the appointment of a British Consul at Basra, enclosing a memorandum written by Charles Wills of the Mesopotamia-Persia Corporation Limited.
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- 75r:102v, 109r:200v, 200ar:200av, 201r:217v, 221r:240v
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