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File 1889/1916 ‘Mesopotamia; Export of dates’ [122v] (253/709)
The record is made up of 1 volume (350 folios). It was created in 17 May 1916-9 Sep 1920. 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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Telegram No. 32-D., dated the 2nd November 1917.
From—The Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Commerce and
Industry, Delhi,
To - The Secretary to the
Government of Bombay
From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions.
, Revenue Department.
Owing to military reasons it has been necessary to restrict export of dates
by Dative craft from occupied territories in Mesopotamia. Please notify owners
of dhows employed m date-carrying trade and others concerned that issue of
licenses will be considerably restricted and may be stopped shortly.
Telegram P , No. 4798, dated the 2 nd (received 3rd) November 1917.
From—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 Gnlf, Baghdad,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart-
(Addressed Basrah.)
Secretary of State sends following, 31st October .—Your telegram* of the
^Serial No. (si).. 22nd October, No. 4497. Director of
r. i , .v Local Resources should be asked not to
purchase any more dates until Food Controller’s contracts signed. Will com
municate necessary information regarding the latter to you very shortly.
Telegram P., No. 4799, dated the 2 nd (received 3rd) November 1917.
From—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.
, Baghdad,
T °~‘ T men e t CT Simto t0 Gotemment of India - in the F «eign and Political Depart-
(Addressed Secretary of State; repeated Basrah.)
. The supply of local foodstuffs both to this force and so far as practicable
to civil population is entrusted to Director of Local Resources Reserves have
rerirttul^morSia 611121 ^ 3 , 0 ' ° n l 00 ? 1 “ ^
dema ds W howd ! t ’ f "T 1 1" antlt y of dates - Reseat local military
nfi™ it> b d are about 10 > 000 to us, but ia the opiaioa of Director
of Local Resources it is esseatial to retain a substantial reserve over and above
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Correspondence and other papers relating to the export of dates from Mesopotamia [Iraq] during Britain’s military occupation of Mesopotamia in the First World War. The file includes: correspondence dated 1916 relating to the lifting of a general prohibition on the export of dates from Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] and Basra (as well as from Muscat), in view of Mesopotamia’s status as enemy territory; in 1917, proposals to prohibit the export of dates from Mesopotamia to destinations other than Britain or its wartime allies; in 1917, the supply of dates to British troops in France, including arrangements for purchase and freight by the War Office; a copy of a printed British diplomatic and consular report entitled ‘Turkey. Report for the Year 1913 on the Trade of Basra’, edited at the Foreign Office and Board of Trade (ff 293-303); reports in early 1918 that the demand for dates in Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. exceeded supply, leading to the Foreign Office’s initial decision to decline a request from the Government of the USA for the Hills Brothers Company of New York to export dates from Mesopotamia, a decision that was reversed in March 1918; price controls on dates for export, arranged in 1918; correspondence dated 1919 on the future policy of restrictions on dates exported from Mesopotamia.
The volume’s principal correspondents are: the Chief Political Officer of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, Percy Zachariah Cox; the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India; the Foreign Office; the War Office; the Ministry of Food.
The volume contains a single item in French, being a note from the French Ambassador in London (f 69).
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 (350 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 348; 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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- File 1889/1916 ‘Mesopotamia; Export of dates’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1r:10v, 15r:22v, 25r:62v, 64r:68v, 70r:105v, 108r:141v, 145r:156v, 157ar:157av, 157v:199v, 202r:214v, 216r:243v, 248r:289v, 291r:294v, 296r:349v, back-i
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