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Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [124v] (253/1028)
The record is made up of 1 volume (510 folios). It was created in 19 May 1927-14 Nov 1939. 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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an Oil concession to the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. The Company had
not commenced working their concession by the end of the year.
During the year the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company also secured Oil
options from the following Shaikhs on the
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
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Shaikh Said bin Maktum of Dibai. !
Shaikh Sultan bin Saqr of Sharjah.
Shaikh Sultan bin Salim of Eas al Khaimah and
Shaikh Eashid bin Humaid of Ajman.
The Kuwait Oil Company who had been granted an Oil concession in
December 1934 by the Shaikh of Kuwait (see Eeview of last year) commenced
working their concession in October of this year.
The Bahrain Petroleum Company had a successful year during which
176,388 tons of crude oil w T ere shipped from Bahrain. The total personnel
of the Company at the end of the year was as follows
American ...••••••••
European British subjects .......
Indian British subjects ........
Bahrainis ..........
f Iranians, 1
Others . Iraqis, .
Kuwaitis, etc. . . . • • • • J
When the French Sloop “Bougainville” visited Eas al Khaimah on
11th February, overtures for a French geologist to examine the possibility
of oil in Eas al Khaimah territory were made by the Shaikh to Contre-
Amiral Eivet, who was reported to have replied that he would try and send
one in about three months’ time. To forestall this possibility the Eesident
asked the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company to send one of their geologists as soon
as possible to visit Eas al Khaimah which was accordingly done.
Kuwait—The Shaikh of Kuwait’s date gardens in Iraq (see Eeview of
last year). Nothing definite had resulted towards the solution of this
difficult problem by the end of the year.
The declining importance of the pearl industry is shown by the fact
that only 250 pearling boats put out for the season as compared with 300
the previous year.
The question of the Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling (see Eeview of last year)
was finally solved by the Iraq Government in the autumn instituting their
own Preventive Service on economical and effective lines.
As in 1934 incidents continued of Iraq Customs officials and Police
violating Kuwait territory and territorial waters and ill-treating and assum
ing Kuwait subjects. In spite of continued representations made by His
Majesty’s Government on behalf of the Shaikh of Kuwait to the Iraq Gov
ernment, no reparations have been forthcoming from the latter who have
continued to reply that either such incidents did not take place as reported
or occurred in Iraq waters. As pointed out in the Eeview of last year it
must be remembered, as an important factor in this problem, that while
Kuwaitis are amongst those who actually smuggle goods by sea into Iraq
territory from Kuwait, on land, where the contraband trade is by far the
greater, it is the Iraqi tribesmen who are the carriers—Kuwait being
merely the market where they purchase their goods.
Ibn Saud’s blockade of exports from Kuwait into Saudi Arabia (see
Eeview of last year) continued with the same severity as before. Through
the mediation of His Majesty’s Government a Saudi delegation visited
Kuwait in June to discuss with the Shaikh means by which the latter could
co-operate with the Saudi Government in checking smuggling, in return for
which co-operation the Saudi Government would raise the blockade. The
immediate result of the conference was not hopeful owing to the intransigent
attitude of the Saudi delegates who insisted that, unless the Shaikh guar
anteed that not a single smuggler would cross the frontier, they would come
to no agreement. Later representations however by His Majesty’s Minister,
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This volume contains copies of the annual 'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' prepared by the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in Bushire and printed at the Government of India Press in New Delhi for the years 1926-1938.
These annual reports are divided up into a number of separate reports for different geographical areas, usually as follows:
- Administration Report for Bushire and Hinterland
- Administration Report of the Kerman and Bandar Abbas Consulates
- Administration Report for Fars
- Report on AIOC [Anglo-Iranian Oil Company] Southern Area
- Administration Report of the Kuwait Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
- Administration Report of the Bahrain Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
- Administration Report of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
- Administration Report of the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Muscat
These separate reports are themselves broken down into a number of sub-sections including the following:
- Visitors
- British interests
- Foreign Interests
- Local Government
- Military
- Communications
- Trade Developments
- Slavery
The reports are all introduced by a short review of the year written by 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. .
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- 1 volume (510 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 512. These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at 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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