Archive / Papers / Allanson: Box 3

Description

  • File containing:
  1. Allanson’s covenant on joining the I.C.S.
  2. Congratulatory telegram on his C.I.E. from Sir Henry Wheeler.
  3. Darbar Programme, 19 February 1927.
  4. Two letters re military training in the 1914-18 war.
  5. Newspaper cuttings: The Pioneer , Thursday August 20, 1914, on the Belgian Ardennes. The Pioneer, Saturday March 2, 1917, on India and the War-letter to the editor. The Statesman, February 4, 1922, book review ? A History of the Great War by John Buchan, Vol. I.
  6. A group of letters and notes, explaining the reasons why Mr. Allanson resigned from the I.C.S. Restrictions on the use of this material were lifted in 1979.
  • File containing:
  1. Report of the Committee appointed by the Government of India to investigate the disturbances in the Punjab etc. London CMD. 681. H.M.S.O. 1920. Annotated by H.L.L. Allanson.
  2. In the Court of Commissioners of the special tribunal of Arrah, 20 November 1917. Trial No. 1 of 1917 (20 November 1917); Trial No. 3 of 1917 (11 December 1917); Trial No. 4 of 1917 (19 December 1917); Trial No. 5 of 1917 (18 January 1918); Trial No. 6 of 1917 (5 February 1918).
  3. Newspaper cuttings:
    The Times Friday, 9 July 1920, pp. 7-10, Parliamentary Report on Amritsar. The Morning Post Wednesday, 7 May 1919, article on Religious riots in India. The Times 16 January 1918 and 29 January 1918, articles on Terrorism in Behar. Three unnamed cuttings about the Arrah Tribunal ? therefore 1918. The Pioneer Wednesday, 7 November 1917.