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SECRET
(PERSIAN QUARANTINE AND CUSTOMS PROCSDURB IN REGARD TO VESSELS
LYING OFF ABADAB).
FROM The Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Division,
H.M.S. "Triad".
10 The Honourable the Political. Resident in the
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , British 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. , Bushire.
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RE^fOPNCV. ^
DATE 7th September 1929*
No* 35R/42A/55/6
With reference to paragraph 2 of letter 42 dated
12th August 1929 from the Honourable the Political
Resident to ^His Majesty*3 Secretary of State for the
Colonies, the Senior Naval Officer considers that the
statement
"This would be done to ensure that nothing
had been taken aboard from the Iraq shore
during the period she had been lying at anchor"
has no force as an argument to support the contention /
that ships previously lying in the stream would have/'
to be thoroughly searched for contraband* .///
2* Any man wishing to smuggle goods into^^r
from Iraq has many miles of unpoliced waterway-- wd ^
almost innumerable creeks among the date gardenF at
his disposal for his field of operations and the obvious
method is by bellum at night* No man of average
intelligence would send his goods first to a steamer
in the river in order that they might then be landed
from that steamer on going alongside nor is it likely
that the seat of operations on the Iraq side would be
opposite Abadan owing to the Iraq Police post established
at Siba*
CAPTAIN
SENIOR NAVAL OFFICER
PERSIAN GULF The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .