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File 3104/1915 Pt 2 ‘German War: conquered territory: status: question of trading; looting, etc., of goods by Turks’ [181r] (368/493)
The record is made up of 1 volume (241 folios). It was created in 12 Mar 1915-30 May 1918. It was written in English and French. 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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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.
, London,
30th July 1915.
Political,
No. 84.
To His Excellency the Right Honourable the Governor
General of India in Council.
l\V’
My TiORD,
With reference to your letter in the Foreign and Political Department,
„ . • No. 33, dated the 20th May 1915, re
ly Za; ms of British firms in , r , . . ,
respect of goods seized or 'destroyed garrling the claims of British firms in
at Basra prior to the British respect of goods stated to have been
occupation. seized or destroyed by the Turks prior to
the British occupation of Basra, 1 forward, for the information and guidance of
* To Foreign Office. No. P. 2169, dated Your Fxcellency’s Government, copy of
ditto. No. 81,872, dated 29th the marginally-noted correspondence*
June 1915. with the Foreign Office on the subject.
Copy of a letter! from the Foreign Office respecting the establishment of a
“ Foreign Claims Office ” is also enclosed.
t No. 61,922, dated 28th May 1915. ^ f ... • i
2. As you will perceive, it is proposed
to note the claims forwarded with your letter, and others of a similar nature that
may arise, for such action as it may be found possible to take, through the
Foreign Claims Office, at the termination of the war.
3. Applicants of foreign nationality should be referred to their own Govern
ments for assistance in the recovery of their claims. 1 his, however, would not
appear to apply to one of the firms
+ Enclosme No. 1. mentioned in the letter from this Office to
the Foreign Office, No. P. 2159, of the 21st June 1915,! viz., the Societe de
§ Copy enclosed in weekly letter from Transports Fluviaux, if, as I gather from
Foreign Secretary to Government of India, Sir P. Cox’s telegram to \ 0U1' 1 Excellency S
No. 21 M„ doted 27th May 1915. Government, No. 793 B„ dated the 11th
April 1915,§ that Company has been, since August 1914, an entirely British
undertaking.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship’s most obedient humble Servant,
(Signed) Austen Chamberlain.
I. -426*.
*1
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Correspondence and papers concerning trade in those parts of Mesopotamia [Iraq] under British military administration during the First World War. Subjects covered include: the resumption of trade between Britain and traders at Basra; claims by British firms for the losses of goods looted or destroyed at Baghdad and Basra by Turkish troops during the initial British invasion of Mesopotamia in 1914; the British Government’s response to claims made by British firms in Mesopotamia over losses incurred during the War; correspondence concerning the seizure and consequent liquidation of enemy (i.e. German and Austrian) commercial interests in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , with specific reference to the German firm Robert Wönckhaus & Company; statements of balances of enemy commercial concerns seized by British forces for September 1916 (ff 116-117) and December 1916 (ff 79-80); the payment of funds from the assets of Robert Wönckhaus & Company, to employees of the firm interned as prisoners of war at Ahmednagar, India; representations made by the French ambassador to London on behalf of a French firm that had 180,000 Francs held in the Ottoman Bank, Baghdad.
The file’s principal correspondents include: the Chief Political Officer of Indian Expeditionary Force D, Percy Zachariah Cox; the Foreign Office; 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. ; the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India.
Several items of correspondence in the volume are written in French.
The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (241 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
The subject 3104 (German War: conquered territory, Mesopotamia: trade) consists of 9 volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/564-572. The volumes are divided into ten parts, with parts 1 to 8 comprising one volume each, and parts 9 and 10 comprising the last volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 243; 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.
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- IOR/L/PS/10/565
- Title
- File 3104/1915 Pt 2 ‘German War: conquered territory: status: question of trading; looting, etc., of goods by Turks’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:6v, 10r:13v, 15r:25v, 27r:28v, 30r:31v, 34r:42v, 44r:44v, 46r:56v, 58r:58v, 60r:96v, 101r:119v, 121r:125v, 128r:129v, 131r:136v, 138r:144v, 146r:146v, 146ar:146av, 147r:151v, 153r:157v, 159r:160v, 162r:164v, 168r:169v, 171r:174v, 176r:190v, 192r:192v, 194r:213v, 215r:216v, 219r:222v, 223ar, 223r:223v, 226r:228v, 231r:233v, 236r:239v, 241r:242v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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