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Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [71r] (146/1028)
The record is made up of 1 volume (510 folios). It was created in 19 May 1927-14 Nov 1939. 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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Japan continued to hold the chief place as an importer of piece-^oods.
The cheapness and serviceable qualities of Japanese goods fill the wants of
the poverty stricken inhabitants of the country.
It will be seen that while exports show a very slight decrease compared
with the previous year imports are up by over Rs. 3,00,000. This increase is
chiefly due to larger imports of sugar, cement and piece-goods, the last two of
which were almost entirely of Japanese manufacture.
8. Royal Navy .—Visits of His Majesty’s ships and Royal Air Force air
craft to Muscat are detailed in Appendix “ A ” to this report.
9. Royal Air Force. — (a) The establishment of the Royal A r Force
in Muscat, consisting of a Rest House and wireless station, wh ch is in direct
communication with Shaiba (Basra) and Dhiban (’Iraq), was maintained in
charge of three operators up to June, and thereafter increased to four.
(b) A tragic event which caused the loss of three lives of members of the
Royal Air Force occurred in the first week of November when a machine of a
detachment of 84 squadrons from Basra on a reconnaissance flight of the
landing grounds between Basra and Aden crashed at Khur Gharim some
400 miles south of Muscat and all 3 occupants were killed. One of these was
Wing Commander Richards, O.B.E., who had recently been appointed the
first Liaison Officer between the Royal Air Force and the Political authorities
in the Gulf. This Officer in addition to having had a distinguished record in
his own profession had become well known in Muscat during numerous visits
in previous years in connection with Royal Air Force affairs and by his tact,
ability and sympathetic understanding of Arab ways had become universally
liked and respected by all with whom he had come in contact in the State.
The news of his death was received with genuine regret.
A noteworthy feature arising out of this sad accident was the attitude of
the local inhabitants during the period the other machines of the Flight were
standing by until relief aircraft arrived. The neighbourhood of Khur Gharim
is in perhaps one of the wildest and most lawless districts of the State where
the authority of the Muscat Government is treated with scanty respect.
Though the behaviour of some of the tribesmen who appeared quickly on the
scene after the disaster when faced with such a wonderful opportunity of Icot
was not blameless, and, in fact, but for the marked tact and skilful haiidling
of what at times must have been a delicate situation by the two Non-Com
missioned Officers of the remaining machines of the Flight, the general atti
tude of the local Bedu was not unfriendly and their conduct certainly not as
dangerous as their reputation would lead to suspect.
10. Aviation General.—The annual special authorisation for aircraft to
land and fly over Muscat and Oman required by the Civil Air Agreement
entered into between His Majesty’s Government and the Sultan in 1934 was
renewed on the 2nd January. The Civil aerodrome at Gwadur continued to
bTuIed throughout the yea^ by the bi-weekly East and West services main-
fninpH bv Tmnerial Airways. 14 machines of Air France and 3 oi the Dutcn
KLM landed for refuelling under the special authorisation for these com-
panies granted annually by the Sultan. A number of private aitoraft afeo
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This volume contains copies of the annual 'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' prepared by the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in Bushire and printed at the Government of India Press in New Delhi for the years 1926-1938.
These annual reports are divided up into a number of separate reports for different geographical areas, usually as follows:
- Administration Report for Bushire and Hinterland
- Administration Report of the Kerman and Bandar Abbas Consulates
- Administration Report for Fars
- Report on AIOC [Anglo-Iranian Oil Company] Southern Area
- Administration Report of the Kuwait Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
- Administration Report of the Bahrain Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
- Administration Report of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
- Administration Report of the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Muscat
These separate reports are themselves broken down into a number of sub-sections including the following:
- Visitors
- British interests
- Foreign Interests
- Local Government
- Military
- Communications
- Trade Developments
- Slavery
The reports are all introduced by a short review of the year written by the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. .
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- 1 volume (510 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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The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 512. These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at 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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