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Coll 30/198 ‘Persian Gulf Defence : - ABADAN.’ [57r] (113/229)
The record is made up of 1 file (113 folios). It was created in 23 Apr 1942-15 Jul 1943. 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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Financial Secretary
Please see the attached letters dated January 29th from the
Foreign Office to this Office and the Treasuiy regarding
expenditure in connection with the Order to be made ty H.M. Minister
Tehran f obliging British subjects at Abadan to do Civil Defence work.'
2 0 The Foreign Oifice suggest that half this expenditure should
be met from Indian Revenues "in accordance with the general
arrangement in regard to the sharing of expenditure in Persia".
This arrangement however covers only Diplomatic and Consular
expenditure j and the expenditure contemplated in connection with
this Order can hardly be said to be in tViis category. From
paragraph a of uhe Foreign Office letter to the Treasury it appears
that the expenses will fall .into three classes:-
(a) condensation for injuries. (7fe may hope that, with the
improvement of the war situation, Abadan will escape being
bombed, and that in consequence no. payments will have to
be made).
(bj Remuneration for medical referees other than service
personnel. (As there are British troops at or near
Abadan it could probably be arranged that all or most
oX the referees should be British officers).
(c) Payment of allowances to Civil Defence workers in cases
where they are employed on premises occupied by British
autnorities. (l doubt whether Civil Defence duties
will be done elsewhere than on the installations of the
Anglo—-tranian Oil Comp ary, and there the corrpauy will be
responsible for the payment of allowances^
* -•'v . ' • * . *
3* So far as I am aware, there have only been two re cent cases
where the Uovemment ^of. India h$.ve been invited, and have agreed*
to share expenditure in connection with Persia outside the strict
limits of jjWLplomatic and Consular expenditure:- v
(a) the construction of some aerodromes in S.E. Persia. But
here the Government of India agreed on the ground that the
> aerodromes were "necessary for the close boraer defence of
India".
(b) The appointment of Consular Liaison Officers to supervise
the/
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The file contains papers mostly relating to the defence of Abadan (and to a lesser extent other areas of Persia [Iran] and Bahrein [Bahrain]) during the Second World War.
It includes papers concerning the following: the defence of oil installations of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) at Abadan from air attack and sabotage; an order (Regulation 29 BB of the Defence (General) Regulations, 1939) requiring British subjects and British protected persons in Persia to perform civil defence duties at Abadan, in the oilfields and at Kermanshah; the question of the application of the Regulation to Indian and Dominion British subjects; arrangements for the payment of compensation for war injuries to British subjects and British protected persons in Persia engaged in civil defence duties; and the question of compensation for war injuries for Indian employees of the AIOC in Persia.
The papers consist of correspondence and other papers including:
- Minutes of the Security Executive Conference on security of oil installations at Abadan, 19 August 1942, and note by the Chairman, 18 August 1942
- Minutes of a meeting held at the Foreign Office on 31 December 1943 to discuss the application of Regulation 29 BB to Persia
- A copy of an instrument delegating to HM Minister at Tehran powers of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under Regulation 29 BB
- A memorandum of instructions for HM Minister at Tehran on the operation of Defence Regulation 29 BB.
The main correspondents are as follows: the Government of India, External Affairs Department; the Ministry of Fuel and Power, Petroleum Division (formerly the Petroleum Department); the Foreign Office; the Minister of State, Cairo [Minister of State Resident in the Middle East]; and HM Minister, Tehran.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (113 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 115, 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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- IOR/L/PS/12/3939
- Title
- Coll 30/198 ‘Persian Gulf Defence : - ABADAN.’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:6v, 8r:29v, 32r:114v, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence