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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. I. 1918' [199] (208/568)
The record is made up of 1 volume (282 folios). It was created in 1918. It was written in English, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian, Kurdish and Syriac. 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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COMMEKCE AND INDUSTRY
199
At the end of 1913 the ocean steamer service to Basra was carried
on by the following lines:
The Ellerman and Bucknall Steamship Company, Ltd. (from
England).
The Strick Line (from England).
Messrs, Marcus Samuel & Co, (from England).
Messrs. Andrew Weir & Co, (from England).
The British India Steam Navigation Company (from Bombay and
Karachi).
The Arab Steamers, Ltd. (from Bombay).
The Bombay and Persia Steam Navigation Company (from
Bombay).
The Haji Sultan AH Shushtari Line (from Bombay),
The Hamburg-Amerika Line (German, from Hamburg and
Antwerp).
The Russian Steamship Navigation Company (from Odessa).
The value of trade carried by German vessels in the years 1911-13,
according to German returns, was as follows :
1911.—Imports, £397,960 (13-9 per cent, of the total imports).
Exports, £294,142 (11-6 per cent, of the total exports).
1912.—Imports, £528,415 (20 per cent, of the total imports).
Exports, £375,760 (11-5 per cent, of the total exports).
1913.—Imports, £1,957,489 (50 per cent, of the total imports). 1
Exports, £226,212 (11-7 per cent, of the total exports).
In 1917 the service between Basra and India was being carried on
by the following lines:
The British India Steam Navigation Company.
The Arab Steamers, Ltd.
The
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Steam Navigation Company.
The Haji Sultan Ali Shushtari Line.
The Abad Company (Japanese steamers under the nominal charter
of Mirza Mohammed Shirazi).
Basra
Data for comparing the different shares of foreign countries in the
Basra market are lacking.
As regards the export of the produce of the Basra vilayet the
following points may be noticed:
A large part of the date harvest of the Shatt el-Arab went to the
United States, the United Kingdom, and India.
Rice and paddy went to the United Kingdom and Germany.
GM went to India and the
Levant
A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
.
1 The increase in this year was mainly in railway material and sugar.
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume I, General (Naval Staff, Intelligence Department: November 1918). This is an updated and expanded edition of A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume I, General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Department: August 1916) (IOR/L/MIL17/15/41/1). This is an introductory volume containing matter of a general nature giving an account of conditions in Mesopotamia, for the most part as they were before the First World War.
The volume includes a note on official use, a title page and 'Note'. There is a page of 'Contents' that includes the following chapters and sections:
- Chapter 1: Boundaries and Physical Features;
- Chapter 2: Climate;
- Chapter 3: Minerals;
- Chapter 4: Fauna and Flora;
- Chapter 5: Hygiene;
- Chapter 6: History;
- Chapter 7: Inhabitants;
- Chapter 8: Religions;
- Chapter 9: Administration;
- Chapter 10: Irrigation of Irak [Iraq];
- Chapter 11: Agriculture and Land Tenure;
- Chapter 12: Commerce and Industry;
- Chapter 13: Currency, Weights, and Measures;
- Chapter 14: Communications and Transport;
- Vocabularies;
- Index.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (282 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged in numbered chapters. There is a contents page and an alphabetically arranged index.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the last folio; 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'. of the folio.
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. I. 1918'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:556, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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