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Enclosure x No. 7.
India Office to Foreign Office.
India Office,
gi r 8th- January 1909.
With reference to your letter No. 39,454, dated the 1st December
1908, as to the situation in the Persian Gulf, I am directed by the
Secretary of State for India to enclose copy of a despatch which he has
addressed to the Government of India on the subject.
In connection with what is said in your letter under the heading of
“ British and Russian Consular Establishments,” Viscount Morley would
invite the attention of Secretary Sir E. Grey to the statements contained
in recent Political Diaries of the Bushire Residency, that M. Ovseenko,
the Russian Consul, left Bunder Abbas on leave on the 16th October
last, and that M. Mathiew, his Assistant, was also proposing to go on
leave. The opportunity might be taken, if circumstances are favourable,
for suggesting to the Russian Government the appointment of some
other officer to Bunder Abbas.
I have, &c.,
The Under Secretary of State, A. Godley.
Foreign Office.
Enclosure No. 8.
India Office to Foreign Office.
India Office,
Sir, 28th October 1908.
With reference to my letter of the 5th August, I am directed by
Viscount Morley to transmit herewith, to be laid before the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, copy of correspondence with the Admiralty
respecting the proposal of the Commanding Officer of His Majesty’s ship
Sphinx that the vessels employed in the Persian Gulf should be fitted
with wireless telegraphy.
As regards the question of land stations for wireless telegraphy on
the coast of the Persian Gulf, which is raised in the Viceroy’s telegram
of the 21st September, a further communication will be made to you on
receipt of a reply from the Government of India to Lord Morley’s
despatch of the 10th July last, a copy of which was inclosed with my
letter of the 5th August.
I am &c.,
The Under Secretary of State, A. Godley.
Foreign Office.
Enclosure No. 9.
India Office to Admiralty.
India Office,
Sir, 28th October 1908.
With reference to your Secret letter dated the 3rd August 1908,
in which the views of the Secretary of State for India were solicited on
a proposal that the vessels employed in the Persian Gulf should be
fitted with wireless telegraphy, I am directed by Viscount Morley to
transmit herewith, to be laid before the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty, copy of telegraphic correspondence with the Government of
India on the subject.