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Coll 34/7 'Slavery: Slave Traffic and Gun-running: Right of search by H. M. ships in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf' [244r] (487/576)
The record is made up of 1 file (286 folios). It was created in 11 Dec 1929-3 Feb 1948. 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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This Document is the Property ot His Britannic Majesty s Government, j
PERSIA.
CONFIDENTIAL
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I 3557/95/34]
No. X.
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July 16, 1929.
Section 3.
Sir R. Clive to Mr. A. Henderson.— (Received July 16.)
(No- 358.) Tehran, June 29, 1929.
WITH reference to my telegram No. 256 of the 26th June, and in continuation
of m^Satch No 341 of the°15th June, I have the.honour to enc ose herewith
copy of the memorandum which I handed on the P r ,“. M^ty Govern
rvliirt rphntting* the allegations which have been made that His Majesty s uove
menfwere n sympathy ftth the Qashqai rebels, and had even furnished them with
“ms and thaTTs Majesty's ships in the Gulf had not stopped the contraband
trade m document communicated to the Minister of Court is not official
in the sense that it would have been if handed to the Acting Minister for Foreign
Affairs Tt is as you are aware, the usual practice now in the case of any urgent
or im^r ant matter to deal directly with the Minister of Court over the head of the
Ic Z Minister for Foreign Affairs. Moreover, in the present case, as I was
anxious that His Majesty should read this memorandum, I communicated it to
Taimourtache in English with a Persian translation attached instead of in Frent i,
AvWh H the language usually employed m our communications. ^ .
o ' n-ip Minister after'reading through the memorandum, again repeated in
the most emphatic language that nefther His Majesty nor himself doubted the good
fiith of His^Maiestv’s Government. The fact remained, however, that there was a
bte illicit traffic m arms and he had just received news from the Customs indicating
thlt Koweit was probably the centre of the traffic. It was believed that a certain
Sheikh Maskur Khan (Tangestani) was one of the P" 1101 ^ 1 creeks
Persian side and that arms were landed, among other places, at two small c ee .
to the west of Bushire, called Skiiv and Bostaru I told hjs Highness that IL
Maiestv’s consul-general at Bush re was at present on a visit to Koweit, and was
enSrg intefthe”question of the arms traffic. His Majesty's Government were only
ton rcadv to assist in stopiiing this traffic, if it was shown to exist, and His Majestv s
consul-general and the senior naval officer would readily co-operate with the Persian
authorities in the Gulf if the Persian Government so desired. , , ~
4. His Highness made no comment on this, and will presumably first submi
my memorandum to His Majesty. i , , orl i^crth the
' 5 In the course of our conversation, however, he elaborated at len th
necessitv for Persia to maintain the best and most friendly relations with His
Maiestv’s Government and the Government of India. Only two countries really
counted in Persia’s foreign policy, Russia and Great Britain He dismissed
Afghanistan as a land of chaos, and Turkey as a poor country like Persia, who could
be of no help to the latter. Iraq he described as a satellite of Great Britain who
would always direct her foreign policy. From this he passed to the question o
negotiations‘ and he expressed the hope that His Majesty’s present Government
would display the same anxiety to settle outstanding questions as the late
Government. ' I replied that I had no doubt whatever on this point, and that I felt
sure he could count on your sympathy and goodwill. r T u*
I have sent copies of this despatch and enclosure to the Government of India,
His Majesty’s High Commissioner for Iraq, Bagdad, and His Majesty s ac mg
consul-general at Bushire. ^ liaye &c
R. H. CLIVE.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Memorandum.
FROM the information at the disposal of His Britannic Majesty s Legation,
and from the hardly veiled accusations published latelv in the Persian press, it would
seem that there is a tendency to regard His Majesty’s Government as m some measure
[856 q—3]
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Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and notes relating to arms and slave traffic in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . Principal correspondents include officials at 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. , Foreign Office, Colonial Office, and Admiralty. Further correspondence, included as enclosures, comes from: the High Commissioner (later, Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. ), Baghdad; the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Bushire; the Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Division; the British Legation, Tehran; Government of India, Foreign and Political Department; Commander-in-Chief of HM Naval Forces, Mediterranean Station; British Legation, Jeddah, and the Board of Trade.
The majority of the file concerns the discussion of arms smuggling in the region, with a particular focus on the right of HM ships to search vessels for arms and slaves. Matters that are discussed include the following:
- Arms traffic across the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. into southern Persia, thought to be supplying the Qashqai rebellion taking place there
- Persian complaints about British sympathy for the Qashqai rebellion
- Revision of naval instructions concerning powers to search and detain vessels in the region
- Arms traffic into Palestine via Akaba [al-Aqaba].
Papers of note included in the file include the following:
- Convention for the Control of the Trade in Arms and Ammunition, and Protocol, signed September 10, 1919 (folios 270-287)
- Record of an interdepartmental meeting held at the Foreign Office on the 24 April to consider the instructions to be issued to the Senior Naval Officers in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , regarding the search by HM ships of Arabian, Persian, and Iraqi vessels for slaves and arms (folios 92-103).
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The file is arranged in chronological order from the back to the front.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 287; 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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- front, front-i, 2r:246r, 247v:256v, 259r:259v, 266r:269v, back-i, back
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