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'Cyphers and Secret Documents: Safe Custody Reports and Handing Over Certificates for Secret Documents' [79r] (162/523)
The record is made up of 1 file (260 folios). It was created in 30 Dec 1936-24 Sep 1946. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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Confidential©
D.O.NOoC/323-19/2.
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British .
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
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bharjah,
24th March 1942o
Major Alban gave me the enclosed extracts from the
" Military Report and Route Book " of " The Arabian States of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
1939" © They are three pages from the book and one
map of Trucial •Oman© Major Alban asked me, as l understood, (.a) to
fill in, on the map, the places mentioned under n Route wo©il.(a>
Sharjah to Kalba "in the book, and not shown on the map, (b> to
examine the possibility of getting a road made, through the mountains,
from Sharjah to Kalba©
2© A week spent with the Shaikh of Ras al Khaimah yielded no
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resultsexcept evasiveness from him when I suggested he might give me
a guide to take me through either of the uadi used by travellers
from Sharjah to Kalba© So, on 21st instant Khan Sahib Abdur Razzaq
and I travelled in the " pick-up w from here to Al , Uqaibato I hoped
to be able to join a caravan from there going through to Kalba but
was not able to do that© My personal inspection of the part of the
route I was able to travel did however yield some information which
may be worth recording©
3. Reference paragraph l^a) of this letter, without surveying
it is not possible to mark in any way accurately on the map herewith
all of the places mentioned in the book, in any case the scale of the
map seems rather- too small to do so©
Reference paragraph lCb>. It is difficult to say in whom
the control of the route vests. The Shaikhs of sharjah, um al Qaiwain,
the Bani (jatab, Fujairah and Kalba might claim various parts of it.
I do not know whether I have mentioned all possible claimants^ but,
even if I -have, an arrangement with them to open and keep open the
route would be practically impossible and, is, at present, as far as
1 know, net necessary©
E.B.Wakefield,Esquire,I, C.S.>
political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
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Bahrain©
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The file contains papers relating to the safe custody and transfer by the Bahrain Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of secret and confidential publications and cyphers and codes. The file contains correspondence from the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain and from other British officials, safe custody certificates, transfer certificates, and related papers. The papers include:
- papers relating to the custody of ' Field Notes on Saudi Arabia - 1935', December 1936 - September 1946, including certificates of safe custody sent to the Air Officer Commanding, British Forces in Iraq;
- papers relating to the updating of the 'Military Report on the Arabian States in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ', May - June 1941 and March 1942, including correspondence between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain and the Government of India, correspondence from Major H T Hewitt, Defence Officer, Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , containing reports on defence arrangements in Bahrein [Bahrain] and Qatar, May 1941, letter from E V Packer, Petroleum Concessions Limited containing a report on the oil situation in Qatar, June 1941, letter from Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain containing a report on the Bahrain naturs, May 1941, and report on the route from Sharjah to Kalba by Cornelius James Pelly, Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , Sharjah, March 1942, with sketch map, folio 81;
- Foreign Office memorandum on the production of official documents, 1942.
The Arabic content of this file consists of printed text on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. of the sketch map on folio 81. This sheet appears to have been reused for drawing the map.
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- 1 file (260 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. Serial numbers written in blue and red crayon (blue for sent correspondence, red for received correspondence) are present throughout the file. They refer to entries in the notes at the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 258 on the back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and can be found in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. Foliation anomalies: ff. 1, 1A; ff. 3, 3A; ff. 53, 53A; ff. 185, 185A. A second incomplete foliation sequence numbered 53-250 is also present between ff. 52-245. The numbers are written in pencil, but are not circled, and appear in the same position as the main sequence.
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- front,front-i,1ar:1av,2r:3r,3ar:3av,4r:53v,53ar:53av,54r:80v,82r:185v,185ar:185av,186r:257v,back-i,back
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