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Coll 17/34 ‘Iraq. Tour in the Persian Gulf of H.M. Ambassador in Iraq’ [24r] (47/98)
The record is made up of 1 file (46 folios). It was created in 10 Feb 1940-28 Jun 1940. 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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DHAMRAN AKD THS COAST OF
19. On the following day Mr. Velghtata, Ur. 1 an and I crossed
fro® Bahrain In a large motor launch lent by the Shaikh to see
Company on the mainland* After rather a rough voyage of two
hours we landed at *1 ivhobar f the small port for the main oil
aamp at Dhahran located on an elevation about five miles distant,
we were accompanied by Saiyid Abdul Asia al i uoaaibi who owns
extensive date plantations on the mainland near Qatif and was
acting as a kind of unofficial Baud! escort. His occasional
attempts to obtain official recognition as a Saudi representative
in Bahrain are not encouraged but his action in accompanying us
on the present occasion was regarded as a civility to which r.
Weightman saw no reason to object. At Al Khobar we were
received by a guard of honour and various Saudi officials who
were moat polite and friendly. Our hosta were the Californian
Arabia Standard Oil Company and its most hospitable manager Ur.
Floyd Ohliger* with whom I stayed for the night, informed me
that but for his resistance my whole time would have been taken
up at meals and other entertainments arranged for my benefit
by the Saudi authorities. We spent the afternoon in seeing the
oil camp and some of the oil wells. The houses are small but
all are air-conditioned. The wells in this area were at the
same depth as the Bahrain deep level wells, that is to say from
4,000 to 4,500 feet. ?e learnt however that within the last
fortnight a well had butm brought in at 10 9 000 feet at .>bu
Hadria, an oilfield which is being developed towards the north.
From ten to twelve thousand barrels were sent over daily from
Al Khobar to the refinery at Bahrain and the remainder from
Bhahran was piped to the port of Kas Tanura. The pipe-line is
about forty miles in length and its capacity up to 50,000
barrels a day. The amount b^ing exported fr^m *a« Tenure did
i
an oilfield opened up by the Californian Arabia^Htandard Oil
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The file contains papers relating to a tour by Sir Basil Newton, HM Ambassador to Iraq, to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and the Gulf of Oman, visiting Sharja [Sharjah], Muscat, Bahrain, Basra, Fao [Al-Faw], and Abadan.
The file mostly consists of the following:
- Correspondence between the 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. (Roland Tennyson Peel) and the External Affairs Department of the Government of India.
- Correspondence between the 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. and the Foreign Office.
- Copy correspondence between Newton and the Foreign Office, including a copy of a despatch from Newton to Viscount Halifax (Edward Frederick Lindley Wood), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, containing Newton’s impressions and observations formed on the tour, and enclosing an account of his tour.
The file includes a divider, which gives lists of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (46 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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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 49; 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.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/2896
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- Coll 17/34 ‘Iraq. Tour in the Persian Gulf of H.M. Ambassador in Iraq’
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- front, front-i, 2r:48v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence