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of the instruments. It is only they rho^can carry on in this
Company and pull on here in this place.
1 . £cnera 1 _conditions - exorbitant_price of fpgd_etc^_in
Baghdad - The'following is an extract from a ^tter dated 7.10.1^
from A.V. Martin, I.S. Rys., S.C.H., Baghoad j.ytp Gr.,H.- Lai tin, 3 » *
C.I. My., Abu Road, India . 'i L ■ :
"Prices rise hourly, here are.a few to compare with those oi
• ;• India ,
Loaf bread 9 as. a loaf
BQejf 6 Fs. a bottle
Tea •' 4 Rs.a lb.
Lhisky 40 Pe. a bottle
G-hed BO Pe. a kerosene .oil tinful’
Rice 100 Rs., t a bag.
Atta ‘ -2 Rr.a'seer
Sugar - On rations, 2 seers a month
per head, at IRe 2 as. a seer.
In fact, nearly everything is up in the skies - and rocketing."
2; Li seel lane ous ~ ‘ •• :
(a) Oernent_ L _grpiindnuts_and_matches_-_prpppsgl_fpr__sendin£_to
Karachi, *Lohd. Abdullah'Latrook, Basrah, stated that he had remitted
telegraphically to Fahad Larzook Rs, 10,000 to be •placed at- the ^
addressee's disposal and asked him to send matches, groundnuts ano
cement to Basrah direct if possible or, in the alternative, co
Khorramshahr by a boat with instructions to the boatman to sneak
to him (the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. ) on telephone on reaching at Fao.so Lhat he
> might'-heIp the boatman in expediting matters onward. .-
(b) Hides_z_arrangement„fpr_importing._intp_Irao_gnd._Turkey
Lcrb n 'Ct t Tii Rt.fif] firm of Befrhaad - From a letter-, dated 22.9.1942
• f ere
iirm on ■ Lne la.n.;.er juisoy, bo aeveiup w± on oiio auui <
by importing hides from India into Iraq 'ind Turkey and that the
scheme, would be financed by the Baghdad firm. The addressees we:
instructed to declare the goods in the shipping, documents as
"in transit to Turkey" and the writers shoula;'be shown as ultimate
6 onsignees,the B/L to be made out to the order'of the Baghdad fixm^
or their correspondents, according to their instructions. In ano the i.
letter dated 25.9.1942 the- Turkish firm informed the Bombay firm
that A .B/.Shubbar -of Baghdad who visited Turkey:would communicate
with the addressees after return to Baghdad in connection with
the purchase of 1000 Karachi dry cowhides, and 1000 Agra dry arseni-
cated cowhides of which half the quantity was - to be sent to Iraq
for Shubbar and the othdr half to Turkey for the writers. They
repeated their instructions conveyed in their first letter and added
that in preparing certificates of origin the writers should not
declare any named if possible. If absolutely necessary only the
writers f name or preferably Lr. ShubbaRs or his Bombay correspondents'
navie' may be inserted. The letter concluded with the following remarks
"Ke shall be glad in case it w i 11 - b e. - pq s sib Id for you-to come
to business with our Baghdad friend not only for hides which
-he will be importing -for Ifaa -.but also through his financing
lo arrange the ’means for some additional business between us
as well. ..... vf ■’ ■ 'V.
(c) Til-seed intended for Bas-rah despatc hed to .Dubai In a
letter dated 13.lD.l542 Lohd. Yusuf Fakhisoo, c/o Fahad A1 Larzook,
Karachi, informed Abdullah Yus iff Fak-hroc, c/o Ahmad A1 Ghanim,