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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [314r] (630/862)
The record is made up of 1 volume (430 folios). It was created in 1944. 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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COMMERCE 489
Since 1940 there has been a marked change, and goods have flowed
through Iraq both to Turkey and to Persia. The completion of the
railway between Baghdad and Tel Kotchek in that year, the con
struction of the line from Tanuma to the Trans-Iranian railway
between Bandar Shahpur and Ahwaz, and of the line from Kut to
Jassimiya (p. 584), combined with the pressing needs of Russia and
Turkey, have had a marked effect on the transit trade, as is shown
by the figures below. It must be remembered, however, that this
increase is quite abnormal, and that these railways will be unable in
normal times to compete with direct channels of trade.
Transit Trade through Iraq {in Iraqi Dinars)
1924 .
• 7.507,500
1937 •
• 2,101,974
1926
. 4,170,000
1938 .
• 3,526,930
1930 .
• 2,756,518
1939 •
. 1,822,466
1935 •
. 2,298,044
1940 .
. 3,110,600
1936 .
. 1,641,274
1941 .
• 7,375,253
Principal Exports
and Imports
The principal exports of Iraq (excluding mineral oil) are agri
cultural and pastoral products—dates, raw wool, cereals, raw cotton,
animals, and animal products. Of these, dates are the most reliable
export, and Iraq is the largest world exporter, though the value has
fallen since the peak year of 1920. Cereals are more dependent on
the harvest, on world markets, and on the needs of the country and
its internal condition, but their total export value often comes first.
Raw wool is generally third; but raw cotton, which is much more
speculative and dependent on world political conditions, has risen
rapidly since 1935, after a hesitant start, and jumped into third place
among exports in 1941 (when the whole crop went to Japan), though
this was partly caused by a poor cereal harvest in that year.
Principal imports are divided among a number of articles—textiles,
machinery, iron and steel, sugar, and tea being perhaps the most
important.
The value of principal exports and imports for the years 1937 to
1941 are given on page 490.
Customers and Suppliers of Iraq
Iraq’s best customer is Great Britain, which in a normal year
before the war (1938) took nearly a third of her exports. Next came
the U.S.A. with a quarter; and, excluding Japan which was abnormal
{below), India was third with about an eighth, rather more than the
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The volume is titled Iraq and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (London: Naval Intelligence Division, 1944).
The report contains preliminary remarks by the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1942 (John Henry Godfrey) and the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1944 (E G N Rushbrook).
There then follows thirteen chapters:
- I. Introduction.
- II. Geology and description of the land.
- III. Coasts of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
- IV. Climate, vegetation and fauna.
- V. History.
- VI. People.
- VII. Distribution of the people.
- VIII. Administration and public life.
- IX. Public health and disease.
- X. Irrigation, agriculture, and minor industry.
- XI. Currency, finance, commerce and oil.
- XII. Ports and inland towns.
- XIII. Communications.
- Appendices: stratigraphy; meteorological tables; ten historical sites, chronological table; weights and measures; authorship, authorities and maps.
There follows a section listing 105 text figures and maps and a section listing over 200 illustrations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (430 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is divided into a number of chapters, sub-sections whose arrangement is detailed in the contents section (folios 7-13) which includes a section on text-figures and maps, and list of illustrations. The volume consists of front matter pages (xviii), and then a further 682 pages in the original pagination system.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 430; 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'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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