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File 1093/1915 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- Proposed revival of British Consulate at Basra. Portuguese interests in Iraq’ [239r] (331/334)
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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In «uy further coininunication
on subject, please ((note
No. K 11673/8227/250
and address,
not to any person by name,
but to—
“ The Under-Secretary of State,”
Foreign Office,
London, S.W. 1.
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3896
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Foreign Office.
23rd September, 1922.
Sir,
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I am directed by the Marquess Curzon of 1922V
to state, for the Information of the Secretary oft fixate
for India in Council, that the Colonial Office are anxious
that an official should be appointed as His Majesty's
Consul at Basra in order to protect British interests at
that place in case of need.
2. It is not anticipated that occasions on which the
assistance of a consular officer at Basra would be required
would be frequent, and lord Curzon does not consider the
appointment of a special consular officer at Basra to be
necessary.
3. In view, however, of the fact that the British
Consulate at Mohammerah is in close proximity to Basra
I am to enquire whether Viscount Feel would have any
objection to the officer holding the appointment of, or
acting for. His Majesty's Consul at Mohammerah being
appointed also His Majesty's Consul at Basra, on the under
standing that no additional expenditure would be incurred
on account of such appointment, and that in the event of
the volume of work at Basra requiring attention becoming
considerable the question of His Majesty's Consul at
Mohammerah ceasing to fulfil the duties of His Majesty's
Consul at Basra would be considered.
4. I am to request that should Lord Peel concur in
the above proposal. Lord Curzon may be informed whether
there is any prospect of a substantive appointment as His
Majesty^
I The Under Secretary of State,
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.
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28 SEP 1922
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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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