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File 3877/1912 Pt 4 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ [107r] (155/176)
The record is made up of 1 part (87 folios). It was created in 22 Apr 1914-15 Sep 1914. It was written in English and French. 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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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty’s Government.]
TURKEY.
CONFIDENTIAL.
Section 3-
[21386] No. 1 .
Board of Trade to Foreign Office.—(Received May 13.)
(Confidential.)
Sir, Board of Trade, May 12, 1914.
I AM directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge the receipt of yonr letter of
the 6 th May, transmitting copy of a letter, with enclosures in original, from the
Central Mining and Investment Corporation on the subject of oil concessions in
Mesopotamia, together with a draft reply.
The Board concur generally in the terms of the reply which Sir E. Grey proposes
to address to the company, but they are disposed to think that the phrase on p. 2 of
the draft, to the effect that certain interests were “formally granted ” to Mr. h’Arcy,
may give rise to some misunderstanding, as they appear to imply an actual grant of a
concession. I am to suggest, therefore, for Sir E. Grey’s consideration, that the words
“ definitely assured ” might be substituted for those quoted above.
As regards the concessions sought by Mr. Silley, the Board concur with Sir E.
Grey that Mr. Silley may be supported, subject to a satisfactory undertaking on his
part of the kind suggested.
Copies of your letter, with its original enclosures, and of this reply have been
forwarded to the Admiralty.
I am, &c.
GEO. J. STANLEY.
9
[2136 n —3]
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Correspondence and papers relating to claims for exploratory oil licenses in Ottoman Turkey (including the vilayets of Baghdad, Mosul and Basra in Mesopotamia [Iraq], and Syria and Nejd). Principal correspondents include: the solicitors Treherne, Higgins and Company, who represent the oil explorer Roland H Silley; representatives of the Central Mining and Investment Corporation Limited (L Reynolds; Louis Julius Reyersbach); Foreign Office (FO) officials (Sir Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe; Sir Louis Du Pan Mallet).
- correspondence concerning Silley’s claims (competing with those made by the D’Arcy Group and Anglo-Persian Oil Company) over mining rights in the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad, an historical précis of which can be found in a letter dated 14 May 1914 from Treherne, Higgins & Company to the Foreign Office (ff 111-112);
- correspondence concerning Silley’s attempts to secure oil licenses in Nejd, Silley’s efforts to contact the prospective Vali of Nejd, Bin Saud (‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd), and discussion amongst FO officials over the prospects of the Turkish Petroleum Company (in large part financed by Deutsche Bank and the Dutch Anglo-Saxon Oil Company) having a presence in Arabia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ;
- a note, written by Sulaiman Nassif, enclosed with a letter dated 27 April 1914, on petroleum prospecting concession licenses in Syria (f 105).
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- 1 part (87 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front.
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- 30r:33v, 36r:42v, 44r:44v, 46r:66v, 68r:69v, 71r:91v, 93r:99v, 101r:104v, 106r:110v, 113r:117v
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