File 2297/1919 ‘Persian Gulf Residency Monthly Reports. 1912-20.’ [‎503r] (1010/1044)

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[Confidential.]
Political Diary of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Pesidency for the month of December
1911.
Aeab Coast.
1. Maskat
paragraph 1085.
2. Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
paragraph 1088.
3. Bahrain
paragraph 1089,
4. Kuwait
paragraph 1090.
Persia.
5. (a) Mohammerah
paragraph 1092.
(5) Ahwaz
paragraph 1096.
(c) Ispahan
paragraph 1105.
6. (a) Bushire
paragraph 1122.
(b) Shiraz.
7. Lingah
paragraph 1130.
8. (a) Bandar Abbas
paragraph 1142.
(b) Kerman and Bam .
paragraph 1152.
Maskat.
26th November to 30th December.
22nd December.
28th November to 25th December.
24th November to 27th December.
26th November to 30th December,
23rd November to 27th December.
1st October to 18th November.
1st to 31st December.
28th November to 31st December.
24th November to 27th December.
3rd November to 7th December.
Foreign interests.
26th November to 30th December.
1085. Mr. Brett, American Consul,
with Mrs. Brett, arrived on the 11th
December.
1086. With reference to paragraph 994, the three Madrassi gentlemen have
again gone into the interior in company
Miscellaneous. -with Ibrahim bin Juma. They left on
the 6th December. They have gone towards Batina Coast.
1087. {Coronation Durbar A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family). Festivities).— Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. held a
Durbar A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family). at the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at noon on the 12th December in commemoration of the
Imperial Durbar A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family). held by His Majesty the King-Emperor at Delhi on the same
date at which 250 persons attended. Saiyid Nadir and the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. ,
accompanied by the foreign Consuls, Commander Ballard, B.N., of H.M.S.
« Philomel ” and the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Surgeon took their seats on the dais at 11-30 a.m.
when the Durbar A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family). was declared open. A portrait of His Imperial Majesty the
Kins’-Emneror overlooked the dais and assembly. The verandah had been
tastefully^decorated with flags by a signal party from H.M.S “ Philomel.” The
Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. addressed the Durbar A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family). , explaining the objects of _ the meeting,
tWino; Saiyid Nadir and the foreign representatives and foreigners present
for gracing the Durbar A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family). by their presence on the occasion and thereby testifying
their sympathy with British subjects on tins day of rejoicing. He said that
he was^ sure all nresent regretted the unavoidable absence of His Highness the
Sultan and deplored the accident to which that absence was due. He read the
letter in which His Highness had expressed his regret at being unable to
attend. The Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. then called for three cheers for His Imperial
Majesty and three cheers more for Her Most Gracious Consort Queen Mary,
which were heartily responded to by all present. Saiyid Nadir then read an
address from His Highness the Sultan of which the translation follows
below:— . _ ^ „
Praise be to him who crowned the creation with the crown of greatness,
and placed imagination below the throne of.his multitudinous Kingdom I And
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