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File 3540/1916 'MESOPOTAMIA 1916-17 PORTION' [9r] (22/1458)
The record is made up of 1 volume (723 folios). It was created in 8 Oct 1915-27 Dec 1917. 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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expected, to earnest hop© was expressed that our [email protected]
on labour would coaae with the war. Although it was racor-
niaed that rrob labour would be needed for military
derobili^" tier and for bweloerent, the iandovmera urged
that it should be sought in Persia, India or elsewhere,
so as to set free the agricultural claeees of the Basrah
Sonjaq who cannot be replaced from other sources. Ttoreover
the skill to tend date gardens is not quickly acquired.
Hi© labour question was touched on in fasrah also,
hrt in the to-./r i toe If t v i© inconr er i ences attend©, t an
billeting are rare i~* ediately pressing. A plea was put
forward that the notables should be accorded mors
favourable treatment -jith regard to axo-ptic^ from the
op era tJ. on of billeting regulations, whereby nearly all
the rood houses in Hi© city hare boon taken over by the
military authorities.
In smite of these drawbacks, a general confidence
in ritiSh a r iniatratlon was apparont, tmd all classes
soar to be actuated by a desire for prograss, the loading
notable of f Afcul Kbasib erdod Ms speech by sayings
f,:? o row have Justice and security 5 provided these are
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- Content
The volume comprises mainly printed correspondence, telegrams, summaries, printed reports, notes, receipts, statistical tables, and other papers concerning miscellaneous matters relating to Mesopotamia, including Basra, and also Bahrain.
The papers notably cover:
- The Iraq Occupied Territories code, 1915 (folios 672-722)
- Notes by Gertrude Bell on the administration of justice, tribal Sayyids, claims for compensation, and the Shia in Iraq
- Bahrain and its trade with the Arabian hinterland
- The interests of the Shaikh of Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] and the Shaikh of Kuwait in the Iraq Occupied Territories
- 'Orders for the Trial of Inhabitants of the Country' (folio 182)
- Attitude of the Basra notables.
The principal correspondents are: Percy Zachariah Cox, Chief Political Officer in Charge, Iraq Section; Gertrude Bell, Political Officer; the Officer in Charge, Cairo Section, Eastern Bureau; Director Military Intelligence, Cairo; the General Officer Commanding, Indian Expeditiory Force D; the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, Simla.
The volume 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 the year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (723 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 3540 (Mespotamia: miscellaneous papers) consists of six volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/617-622. The volumes are divided into six parts with each part comprising one 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 725; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 4-723; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. There are multiple additional mixed foliation/pagination sequences. There is one foliation anomaly, f 360a.
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- Reference
- IOR/L/PS/10/617
- Title
- File 3540/1916 'MESOPOTAMIA 1916-17 PORTION'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:304v, 305ar:305av, 305r:360v, 360ar:360av, 361r:724v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence