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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [170r] (344/366)
The record is made up of 1 volume (179 folios). It was created in 1924. 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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329
G — contd.
Company’s capital has been expended. Were the Persian fields
to be closed down to-morrow these branches of the business would
still earn their profits, because they would be employed in deal
ing with crude and other products from other countries.
Another complaint raised against the Company is the inade
quate employment of Persians. This is, however, unjust,
since from the very commencement of operations in Persia local
labour has been trained to the utmost possible limit and Persians
have to a large extent been substituted for the Indian artisans,
who were at first imported in large numbers. But it must be
borne in mind that a nomad peasant cannot be converted
into a. skill ed labourer by the mere wave of a wand, and no effort
has been spared on the part of the Company to train and utilise
local labour as expeditiously and as fully as possible.
A further benefit that the country is deriving from the Com
pany is a large and efficient medical and nursing staff, which not
only gives free attendance to its own employees, but also to other
local Persians. In addition three commodious and thoroughly
up-to-date hospitals, which are equipped with operating rooms,
X-Ray apparatus, and the most modern surgical appliances, have
been built.
In the' past the only limits to the ability of the Producing Future Proa-
Conn any to give a supply of crude oil are (1) the capacity 1 *' 0 -
of the pipe lines, (2) the extent of the refineries. The programme
that the Company has been working on for the past few years
has to bring these two facilities up to a total capacity of 5,000,000
tons per annum. The pipe lines and pumping stations have now
been increased to permit of pumping this quantity of oil to the
seaboard, but the refinery capacity has not yet, owing to the
delays of strikes and an outbreak of fire in 1922 at Abadan,
reached this figure. The refinery capacity of to-day is approxi
mately 3,100,000 tons by June 1923 it should be 4,100,000 tons
and by the end of the year 4,500,000, at which figure the Com
pany will probably rest until in a better position to judge where
further refineries can be erected to the best advantage. By
this then the output of refined products at the end of 1923
should be nearly double as much as that of the present year.
During 1922 additional test wells which have been put out as
feelers beyond the proved areas of the fields, which the Company
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Confidential military report on Arabistan [Khūzestān] compiled by Air Headquarters, Iraq, and printed by the Government of India Press, 1924.
The report contains nine chapters (numbered I-IX) and seven appendices (A-G) as follows:
- chapter I – history (general, ancient, modern, political attitude);
- II – geography (boundaries, area, general description, altitude, mountains, rivers and fords, towns and villages, tracts of land, islands, fortified places, political divisions);
- III – climate (general, temperature, winds, rainfall, mirages, general medical and sanitary conditions, principal diseases, conditions affecting aviation and military operations);
- IV – economic resources (general, labour, agriculture, livestock, manufacture, power, commerce, customs, banking, revenue, tables of imports and exports);
- V – ethnography (general, population, races, religions, languages);
- VI – tribes (general, armed forces, tribes in relation to possible centres of disturbance, political attitudes, military considerations, tribal action, punitive measures, recapitulation, lists of tribes);
- VII – personalities;
- VIII – communications (general, communications by sea, inland waterways, railways, telegraphs and telephones, post, aerodromes and possible aerodromes, wireless and visual communication, principal routes by land, sea and river);
- IX – administration (general, government establishments, northern province, southern province);
- appendix A – bibliographical notes;
- B – weights and measures, coinage and time;
- C – glossary of topographical terms;
- D – Karun river [Rūd-e Kārūn] regulations;
- E – concession granted to the “Nasiri Company”;
- F – customs schedule;
- G – Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
The volume contains a single map in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folio 180).
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- 1 volume (179 folios)
- Arrangement
A contents list (ff 4-5) and index (ff 171-177) reference the report’s 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 181; 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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- 169r:170v
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- Greenaway, Charles
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