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File 3104/1915 Pt 5 ‘Mesopotamia: trade; wool’ [‎spine] (3/336)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (164 folios). It was created in 10 Sep 1918-29 Sep 1919. 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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Correspondence and papers concerning the export of wool from Baghdad and Basra in Mesopotamia [Iraq] during Britain’s military occupation of the country after the First World War. The contents of the file are a direct chronological continuation of File 3104/1915 Pt 4 ‘Mesopotamia: Trade with Baghdad & Export of wool’ (IOR/L/PS/10/567). Contents of the file include: arrangements for the export of 3,000 bales of wool from Basra to Marseilles; restrictions on the export of wool from Mesopotamia; changes in trading restrictions, including the Army Council’s insistence that all wool from Mesopotamia be imported into Britain, for distribution to its allies (specifically, France and the United States of America); a copy of a report produced by the East Indian Wool Trade Committee, dated July 1918 (ff 77-85); applications by commercial firms seeking to export wool from Mesopotamia; the Army Council’s considerations on lifting restrictions on the export of wool in February 1919. The file contains a number of items in French.

The file’s principal correspondents are: 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 War Office, including the Director of Raw Materials at the War Office.

The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 volume (164 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

The subject 3104 (German War: conquered territory, Mesopotamia: trade) consists of 9 volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/564-572. The volumes are divided into ten parts, with parts 1 to 8 comprising one volume each, and parts 9 and 10 comprising the last volume.

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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 166; 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.

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English and French in Latin script
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File 3104/1915 Pt 5 ‘Mesopotamia: trade; wool’ [‎spine] (3/336), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/10/568, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100066392072.0x000004> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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