ملف ١٩١٥/٣١٠٤ الجزء ٩ "التجارة مع بلاد الرافدين: المدفوعات من أصول العدو في إنجلترا إلى الشركات في بلاد الرافدين؛ دفع أرباح الأسهم في الشركات البريطانية، والتركات، وغير ذلك للمقيمين في بلاد الرافدين؛ مطالبات السادة سليم حمصي وشركاه تجاه عملاء في منطقة الموصل؛ مطالبة السادة أندرو وير وشركاه ضد الإدارة النهرية" [و‎‎١‎٩‎٢] (٣٣٤/٩)

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Minute Paper.
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Department.
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The Board of Trade letter of the 29th September X
at last lays down a clear line on the subject of
payments from this country to Mesopotamia, which has
in the past given rise to a good deal of difficulty
and confusion.
It may be useful to recall the main facts* The
governing document in the early days was the Trading
with the Enemy (Occupied Territory) Proclamation,1915.
In October 1918 it was formally certified that the^
vilayets of Basra and Baghdad were to be regarded,
for the purposes of this Proclamation, as territory
in friendly occupation. On the 17th February 1919
the Board of Trade published a General Licence
authorising the resumption of trade with Turkey
(including Kurdistan and "’Me sop ^tamia). Subsequently,
as a result of complaints from Mosul that merchants
in the United Kingdom were not being allowed to pay
’outstandings' to merchants in Mosul, it was
arranged in correspondence with the Foreign Office
that enquirers might be informed that there was no
objection to their acting as if the v ilay et of
Mosul had been declared territory in friendly
occupation. The supposition was that this would
improve matters from the point of view of the Mosul
merchant by allowing the payment to Mosul of pre-war
debts, which were excluded from the scope of the
General Licence. The position, as will be seen from
the notes on the file, was recognised as being very
obscure; but the Board of Trade, to whom copies of
the correspondence were sent., oizered no comment.
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I understand, however, as a result of oral
discussion, that the Board of Trade have now arrived
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