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Coll 28/48 'Persia. Anglo-Persian Oil Company; Relations with Persian Govt.' [7r] (24/552)
The record is made up of 1 volume (272 folios). It was created in 26 Sep 1923-22 Jun 1931. 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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machine oil, gear oil, wax and insecticide, whereas if these
products mre manufactured in Persia they would naturally be
cheaper and more economical for the Persian user. A third
injury is that all the factories and houses which should be
built in Persia by Persian masons and workmen and paid for
in Persia and finally, at the end of the concession, become
the property of Persia, are built abroad; thus we are
deprived both of individual profit and of proprietary
wealth. A fourth injury is that fro* now on in so far as
they are able they will reduce their principal establishraents
in Persia and will enlarge those over there, and before the
expiry of the concession they will carry away all their
valuable instruments and apparatus and the whole of the raw
material from our underground depositories and store it in
their own depositories in foreign parts and then will bid us
goodbye with a sarcastic smile.
These injuries are not imagination and suppoaition and
if we wake up from our imprudent lethargy and rub our eyes
we shall see with what rapidity the golden entrails of our
earth are leaving the country; those who carry them away are
convinced that "Mast* must be drunk from a goblet and so
they are doing in the matter of the apparatus, instruments,
structures and buildings. Deeds and proof support this
supposition and the ? uiglo Persian Oil Company proves to us
by Its acts that, contrary to the stipulations of Article 15
of the concession, they will not hand over to us their
apparatus and their plant. A proof of their evil designs
is the way they acted lately in regard to their operations
in Behluran and Dilpareh in Puahti-Kuh. Dehluran and
Dilpareh are two places In Pushti~Kuh near the Iraq frontier
which they have abandoned. When the exploration
administration saw that operations in those two places were
not beneficial, they abandoned them. For some years they
/have
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Correspondence, memoranda, and other papers, concerning relations between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) and the Persian Government, and between the British and Persian governments over APOC operations in Persia [Iran]. The file covers: reports of attacks on APOC drilling operations at Bikarz [Bīd Karz] and Mishun in 1923; Soviet propaganda published against APOC in the Persian province of Khuzistan in 1927; disturbances amongst Persian APOC employees at Abadan in May and June 1929, and the British response to these disturbances, including the despatch of naval vessels to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; copies of a 1931 memorandum entitled 'South Persian Oilfields Defence Scheme', produced by the Overseas Defence Committee at the Foreign Office (ff 76-86); a 1931 'Report on the Tribes in the Area exploited by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Ltd', prepared by R J Moneypenny at HM Consulate, Ahwaz [Ahvāz] (ff 24-54); anti-APOC articles published in the newspaper Shafaq-e-Surkh in 1931, which criticise the D'Arcy Concession of 1901 (translations enclosed, ff 6-16), and the subsequent protest at the content of the articles made by the British Government to the Persian Government. The volume's principal correspondents include: HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran, Robert Henry Clive; HM Vice-Consul at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr], Captain E W Fletcher; 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. .
The volume contains a small number of items in French, being correspondence exchanged between the British and Persian Governments and three copies of the Persian newspaper Le Messager de Teheran (ff 61-66).
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 volume (272 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
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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 268; 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.
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- Coll 28/48 'Persia. Anglo-Persian Oil Company; Relations with Persian Govt.'
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- 6r:16v
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- Shafaq-e-Surkh
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