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'PERSIAN GULF AND GULF OF OMAN. RESOURCES AND COAST DEFENCES.' [33] (39/114)
The record is made up of 56 folios. It was created in 1903. 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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f ao.
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FAO.
(See Admiralty Charts 1,235 and 2,837 b.)
Fao is a small Turkish settlement on the W. bank of the
Shatt-al-Arab about o| miles up the river from the bar. It
appears to owe its existence mainly to the telegraph station.
There is a Turkish custom-house and quarantine depart
ment.
Fao Village contains about 400 inhabitants.
The date plantations at Fao are the private propertv of the
Sheikh of Koweit.
See under Shatt-al-Arab. Passage
distances.
There is a rough jetty made of stone over the mud a little Landing
below Fao Village light. There is deep water a few yards from P lace -
the end of the jetty.
CW. —It is understood that there is no coal. Supplies.
Water. —There is no information as to water, except that the
river water is fresh and fit for drinking, except in autumn when
the river is low.
Food. —There is no information as to food supply actually at
Fao, but, according to the "Pilot," supplies of fruit, vegetables,
and cattle can often be obtained at the villages on the fertile
Turkish side of the Shatt-al-Arab.
There is no information as to roads, Communica-
Steamers. —The Basra steamers call at Fao. tlous "
Telegraph. —• There is a British cable from Fao to Bushire
(Indo-European Telegraph Department). It connects at Fao
with the Turkish land line which follows the W. bank of the
Shatt-al-Arab to Basra.
The station consists of two white iron-roofed offices, one Telegraph
British for cable messages, and the other Turkish for the station,
land line.
The cable does not actually land at Fao, but is brought up
the Khor Abdullah and landed on the mud fiat at it? head.
Thence it is led through the mud flats and creeks for upwards
of 3^ miles to the Fao Station.
r Jhe Fao Station is of great importance, being on one of the
principal lines ot telegraphic communication between Europe
and the East.
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Printed report published by the Intelligence Department of the Admiralty, 1903. The report includes advice on collecting information on defences such as defended areas, minefields, ordnance, under-water defences. Much of the information was extracted from the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Report, 1898.
There are details on Muscat; Mussandam Promontory; Khor Kawi [Khawr al Quway‘], Elphinstone Inlet [Khawr ash Shamm], Khasab; Pirate Coast; Bahrain; Kuwait; Fao [Al Fāw]; Basra; Bushire; Lingah; Bundar Abbas [Bandar Abbas].
Also included is an 'Official statement of British Policy with regard to (1) the proposed Baghdad Railway; and (2) Persia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. generally' given in the House of Lords, May 5, 1903.
Maps include: rough sketch of operations in the vicinity and Bushire from the 3rd to the 10th February 1857 (Reproduced from Outram's Persian Campaign 1857); sketch of the attack on the batteries of Mohumra [Khorramshahr]: combined naval and military forces under command of Sir James Outram; sketch of the ground in the neighbourhood of Ahwaz [Ahvāz] on the Karun [Kārūn], showing the position occupied by the Persian Army, and the advance of the British detachment upon the town, March 1857. At the back of the report there is a large fold-out map: General Outline Map of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. showing Submarine Cables and the Principal Places mentioned in the Report.
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on a map that is stored in a sleeve at the back of the volume, on number 57.
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- front, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:12, 12a:12b, 13:62, 62a:62b, 63:78, 78a:78b, 79:86, 86a:86b, 87:88, 88a:88d, 89:94, ii-r:ii-v, back-i, back
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