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FOREIGN OFFICE AND BOARD OF TRADE.
egrams : Advantage, Vic, London.
ephone : Victoria 9040.
Any further communication respecting
matter should be addressed to The
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DEPARTMENT OE OVERSEAS TRADE
(DEVELOPMENT AND INTELLIGENCE),
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1st January, 1920.
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I an directed to inform you that this Department
has recently given renewed consideration to the question
of the manner in which use might he made of the valuable
report on the Prospects of British Trade in Mesopotamia
and the Persian Gulf prepared in 1917 by Mr. R. E. Holland
and Mr. J. H. ilson. It will be in Mr. Montagu’s
recollection that at the time at which the report was
received it was decided in joint consultation i im our
Department and with the Foreign Oixice that it could not
suitably be made public or even be circulated confidentially
to firms interested. The question was considered afresh
at a later stage, but it was still u... ought undesirable
that any circulation should be given to the‘report pending
the Peace negotiations in relation to turkey.
2. In view of the unavoidable delay which has
occurred, much, of the report is now somewhat out of date.
It must be remembered aL so that the report was prepared
largely from the point of view of supplying data and
The Under Secretary' of State,
INDIA. OFFICE,
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