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File 1749/1921 ‘Persian Gulf:- Residency news summaries 1921-25’ [‎5r] (18/494)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (240 folios). It was created in 17 Mar 1921-29 Mar 1926. 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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CONFIDENTIAL.
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Bushire 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. Diary (Persian) No. 19 of 1925 for the month of December
1925.
Movements.
British officials.
2-lb 2.&b'
S15. Reference paragraph 205^.
Captain G. L. Mallam, on his return
from Shiraz, passed through Bushire on
the 9th eu route for England via the
overland route.
Lieutenant-Colonel G. N. S. Keene,
Officer Commanding, 1-I6th Punjab
Regiment (which furnished the Gulf
Ports garrison), arrived at Bushire on the
23rd from India.
Captain- T. H. Geake, Commandant,
Bahrein Levy Corps, visited Bushire
from the 22nd to the 30th.
Captain H. St. John Mungavin, Im
perial War Graves Commission, arrived
at Bushire on the 31st December from
England.
British subjects.
Major E. Holmes, of the Eastern’ and
General Syndicate, visited the Political
Resident at Bushire on the 22nd en route
from Bahrein to Baghdad.
Foreign representatives.
M. Hugo Walden, Russian Consul-
General for Ears, left Bushire on the 9th
and returned on the 16th after visiting
Mohammerah and Ahwaz. He left for
Shiraz on the 25th.
Foreigners.
Herr Yolbrecht, German, engineer to
Herr Wassmuss, arrived at Bushire on
the 9th on the S.S. “ Hohenfels ”.
Miss Gertrude Glaiber arrived at
Bushire by the same steamer and was
met by her fiance, Mr. Walter Pfeilsticker,
of Shiraz.
Julius Euchs, Austrian globe-trotter,
arrived at Bandar Abbas on the 18th
from Kerman. He carries Emergency
Certificate No. 20, dated the 12th October
1925, granted by His Majesty’s Consul-
General at Tehran. He applied to His
Majesty’s Consul for a transit visa via
Bombay to Austria, but on being offered,
under instructions from His Majesty’s
Legation, a transhipment visa only, it was
discovered that he had neither the means
nor the intention to return to Austria
but desired to proceed to India for employ
ment. According to his own account
he was employed in railway construction
in Burma for ten and a half years prior
to the outbreak of the war, when he was
interned in Ahmednagar and repatriated
in 1920. He states that he set out from
Oldenburg in Prussia in 1924 and has
tramped through Austria, Hungary,
Bulgaria, Roumania, Constantinople, Asia
Minor and thence into Persia via Resht.
He appears to have been travelling for
some time with Hans Neyer, another
globe-trotter of Austrian or German
nationality.
Reference paragraph 197.
Otto A. J. Muller arrived at Bandar
Abbas on the 20th from Khamir. He
holds passport dated 9th March 1924
issued by the Chief of Police at Witten-
burg near Singer (Germany), which bears
a visa for the “ Straits Settlements ”
granted on the 28th July 1924 by the
Passport Control Officer at Vienna. He
enquired of His Majesty’s Consul whether
he would be granted a transit visa to
Karachi en route for Singapore and was
informed that such could only be given if
there were reasonable prospects of his
being able to obtain a ship there to take
him to his destination.
He is possibly identical with the
Otto Mueller mentioned in paragraph
1961-A of the Bombay Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. Police
Abstract of Intelligence No. 52 of
1925.
Alexis Voskressensky, a Russian bear
ing a Erench passport, arrived at Bushire
on the 30th as engineer for the Persian
gun-boat “ Pahlavi ”, and is proceeding
to Basrah, where the vessel is in dock.
Reference paragraph 205.
Nicolai r^ulnnnnff left nn th^ y 11 ^ ^
lushire.
ENCLOSURE IN
INDIA FOREIGN SECRETARY’S
Letter No- Q f/|.
Dated 4 FEB 1925
Received
2^ FEB 1926

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This volume mainly contains copies of printed monthly summaries of news (Bushire 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. Diary entries) received by the British 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. , and 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. Political Department minute papers prefacing and commenting on the news summaries.

The news summaries cover the period January 1921 to December 1925 (there is no summary for February 1921). Summaries from January 1925 to July 1925 cover fortnightly rather than monthly periods. The summaries were compiled by the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Prescott Trevor, Acting Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Stuart George Knox, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Beville Prideaux, and Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Gilbert Crosthwaite, respectively).

The summaries cover areas in Persia [Iran] including: Mohammerah [Khorramshahr], Dizful [Dezful], Ahwaz [Ahvāz], Ispahan (Isfahan), Shiraz, Behbehan [Behbahān], Bushire, Bunder Abbas [Bandar Abbas], Kerman, Mekran [Makran], Shushtar, Bakhtiari, and Lingah. They also cover Muscat, the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , Bahrain, and Kuwait.

The summaries cover various subjects, including: movements of British officials, Persian Officials, non-officials, and foreigners; health; Persian ports; arms traffic; military affairs; the Anglo-Persian Oil Company; the Shaikh of Mohammerah; and roads.

The volume 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 (240 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

The subject 1749 ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. :- 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. news summaries 1921-25) consists of one volume only.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 237; 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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