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'PERSIAN GULF AND GULF OF OMAN. RESOURCES AND COAST DEFENCES.' [68] (76/114)
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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68
PERSIAN GULF
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.—HESOURCES AND DEFENCES.
Baghdad from the two noble lords : and before I do so I wish to point
Railway. out to the noble lord who spoke first that he, like a good many-
other people, is under a misapprehension when he conceives that
negotiations have been passing between His Majesty's Govern
ment and the promoters of the Baghdad Railwav Company.
There have been no negotiations between His Majesty's
Government and the promoters of the Baghdad Railway
Company, any more than there have been negotiations between
His Majesty's Government and any foreign Government on this
subject. What has taken place is this. There ivere confidential
communications—negotiations if you like to call them so—
between His Majesty's Government and certain representatives
of the great financial houses in this country, with the object of
ascertaining whether the conditions upon which this enterprise
was being undertaken were of a kind which would permit His
Majesty's Government to offer it any encouragement whatever.
Those negotiations, as the noble lord told the House, are no
longer in progress. The noble lord expressed a hope that I
might be able to give to your lordships some papers relating
to them. To that proposal I must give an unhesitating negative.
For that I Avill give your lordships reasons which, I think, you
will consider sufficient. In the first place, as these communi
cations are no longer proceeding, it is clearly not necessary that
these papers should be supplied to the noble lord for any public
purpose. If we had been, in his opinion, upon a dangerous
incline, likely to lead us to any of those unfortunate results
which he so eloquently described, if he had desired to arrest
our progress by calling attention to the documents, there might
be some reason for requiring their production ; but that is not
the case. There is another reason, which weighs even more
strongly with me. These communications were, as I said just
now, of the most confidential character. Now, I am under the
impression that the occasions upon which the British Govern
ment finds itself in such confidential communication with the
representatives of that great organism which we are in the
habit of describing as the City, are of rare occurrence—probably
much rarer in this country than in any other country in the
world. But I do say that when those occasions arise, and when
those confidential communications take place, it should be on
the clearest possible understanding that the confidence which is
given and received is respected from beginning to end ; and I
think we should ill requite the manner in which the gentlemen
to whom I have referred have approached this question if we
were to offer any encouragement to the idea that we should lay
before Parliament or in any way give to the public the
documents or the purport of the conversations that passed
between us. There is one other observation which I feel
impelled to make on this subject. I make it in fairness to the
persons to whom I have just now referred. It is this—that I
am deeply convinced that throughout these discussions their
object was not only to ascertain from us whether they could
expect at our hands any encouragement for the project in
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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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