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File 3104/1915 Pt 3 ‘Mesopotamia: trade with Baghdad’ [‎99r] (202/382)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (187 folios). It was created in 22 Mar 1917-31 Dec 1917. 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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appointed by the Board, and, since the consideration
of the case, Lr. Bolzani, has been prosecuted and fined
for making a false representation for the purpose of
obtaining a licence to export goods. The Board do not
consider that Messrs. J. Bolzani and Company should be
regardeo. as an "approved" firm.
With reference to }/our letter of the 16th June, I
am to say that Messrs. David Sassoon and Company Limited
of 12, Leadennall Street, E.C., are merchants and bankers
trading with the East Indies, China, and Persia. They
were established in London in 1860 and registered as a
Company in 1901. They have houses also at Manchester,
Hong Kong and Bombay. They are considered as a first
class firm, are in a very large way of business, of
undoubted reputation and of the highest credit, and they
should unquestionably be regarded as an "approved" firm.
Enquiries are being made with regard to the firms referred
to in your letters of the 23rd and 26th June.
In connection with the general question referred to
in your letter of the 14th June, I am to enclose copies
of correspondence on the same subject which has passed
between 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. and tms Department together with
copies of letters which the Board caused to be sent to the
Commissioners of His majesty’s Customs and Excise, and to
Messrs. Selim Homsy aid Company who are one of the firms
mentioned in your letter of the 14th June, and I am to
say that,, in order to avoid the possibility of duplicate
i
and even diverse decisions, it would app ar to be desirable
that the task of iving permission to firms in this
country to trade with Bagdad should be undertaken by one
Department only.
I an further to suggest, for Lord Robert Cecil’s
consideration, that where the question at issue relates
solely to ti'B status ard reliability of firms in the
United

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Papers relating to trade between Baghdad and Basra in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and Great Britain, in the wake of Britain’s military invasion and occupation of Mesopotamia during the First World War. Subjects covered include: the resumption of trade between Britain and Baghdad; enquiries made to the British Government by British firms asking if they may resume trade to and from Mesopotamia; enquiries relating to goods seized and condemned by the Prize Court; the resumption of trading at Baghdad by a number of firms ‘approved’ by the British Government’s Board of Trade; enquiries by commercial firms relating to goods looted or destroyed during the military invasion of Mesopotamia. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Foreign Office; 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 and Political Department of the Government of India; Henry Fountain of the Commercial Department of the Board of Trade.

The file includes a single item of correspondence in French: a copy of a telegram from the Persian Consul General in Baghdad (f 144).

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 (187 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 189; 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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