Coll 34/7 'Slavery: Slave Traffic and Gun-running: Right of search by H. M. ships in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf' [268r] (535/576)
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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ENCLOSURE No. 0:
-India f )ljice lo High Commissioner, Baghdad.
Sir,
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.
,
January 1921.
\\ ith reference to previous correspondence on the subject of the Arms Traffic
Convention, of which copies have been forwarded to Baghdad, and in particular to
the telegram to the Government of India (repeated to Baghdad) of the 25th November
1919, and to the letter from this Office to the Foreign Office, No. P. 1409, of the 12th
March last (copy sent to Baghdad on the 18th March), 1 am directed by the Secretary
of State for India to forward, for your information, copy of a Despatch to the
Government of India, with enclosures, dealing with various questions raised in
connection with the Convention. •
I am to ask you to be good enough to consider and report, with reference to the
letter from the Admiralty of the 1st November, what measures will be necessary to
give effect in Mesopotamia to Chapter III. of the Convention.
I am, &e.,
The High Commissioner, d. E. Shuckburgh.
Baghdad.
ENCLOSURE No. 7 :— Board of Trade to India Ojjice.
C.R.T. 5265. Board of Trade,
Sir, 1st January 1921.
1 am directed by the Board of Trade to transmit to you herewith, for the
information of Mr. Secretary Montagu, copy of a letter which they have caused to be
addressed to the Foreign Office regarding the Arms Traffic Convention.
I have, &c.,
The Under Secretary of State H. Fountain.
for India.
Annex :—Board of Trade to Foreign Ojjice.
C.R.T. 5265. Board of Trade,
gj r 1st January 1921.
With reference to your letter of the 15th December (No. A. 8612/7143/60),
enclosing copy of correspondence regarding a proposal made by the Air Ministry
that the French, Italian, Belgian and Japanese Governments should be urged to
agree to prohibit the export of small arms, ammunition, bombs, Ac., to the prohibited
zones specified in Article VI. of the Arms Traffic Convention, I am directed by the
Board of Trade to state, for the information of Earl Curzon of Kedleston, that they
are in some doubt as to the precise scope of the proposal. .
The Board understood that the recent modification in the Protocol of the Arms
Traffic Convention (to the effect that for the present the Convention should apply only
to the prohibited zones) meant that the High Contracting Parties undertook, so far as
the territory under the jurisdiction of each was concerned, to prohibit the importation
of the arms and ammunition specified in Articles L and II. of the Convention into
the territorial areas included in the prohibited zone, and to prohibit the export of
such arms and ammunition to the prohibited areas in accordance with Article 11. It
is true that special licences might be granted m respect of these areas but the
Board presumed that this would only be in exceptional circumstances, and subject,
in the case of export licences, to the conditions set out in Article II. of the Convention,
and in the case of import licences to the conditions of Article M.
The correspondence forwarded with your letter would appear to suggest that
the French, Italian, Belgian and Japanese Governments are neither prohibiting,
nor expected to prohibit, the export of small arms ammunition and bombs to the
prohibited zone. 1 It is not clear to the Board whether the reference is to all kinds
o ' eh arms and ammunition (whether warlike or other), or only to those which are
not adapted to warlike purposes, but ns Lord Ourzon >s aware, the Convention pro-
hd i s he exportation to, and importation into the prohibited areas, no only oi the
warlike arms and ammunition referred to in Article I but also of all other firearms
and ammunition (Article II.), and it is the practice of the Hoard to require a specific
export licence for all consignments of arms and ammunition (uailike and otfiu,
proceeding into or through any of the prohibited areas in accordance with the
intentions ol^the Convention.thi g was . ulopted in pursuance of the agreement
recentlv reached for the modification of the Protocol to the Convention as understood
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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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