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Coll 28/48 'Persia. Anglo-Persian Oil Company; Relations with Persian Govt.' [44r] (98/552)
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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Their children are in Beni Turuf hut with
no office or authority and dependent
largely on their former servants for their
livelihood
The tribesmen themselves have suffered
during the last few years, first at the
hands of British troops during the War
and later of the Persian troops in the
rising of 1928 when large numbers of their
buffaloes are reported to have been
destroyed* Bad harvests have in addition
impoverished the tribesmen, numbers of
whom have gone to Ahwaz end Abadan to find
work on the railway and in the Oil Company.
(b) Beni Saleh and Shurafa.
Numbers . About 3000 souls.
Location^. West of Ahwaz in the Howeizeh
district.
Fight ing Strength. About 2000.
Arms. Unknown. These two tribes have been
disarmed by the Persian authorities
and it is estimated that only a small quantity
of arms is still in their possession.
Habits, etc * Sedentary, they cultivate
wheat, barley, and a little rice. They are
allied to the Beni Turuf and would support
them in war.
Recent History . They have been must scatter
ed and reduced in numbers during the lasu
few years. Some of them, especially the
Shurafa, supported the Beni Turuf in the
rising
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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)
- 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 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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:5v, 18r:18v, 21r:60v, 67r:236v, 243r:250v, 255r:268v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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