'Memorandum on the Indo-European Telegraph Department and Narrative of Events to the end of 1898' [‎7v] (14/20)

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of the British and Ottoman offices shall be permanent. The rent and cost
of maintenance of the mixed telegraphic station shall be shared in equal
proportions by the British and Ottoman Administrations.
Y. It is well understood that the active service of the British Office on
Ottoman territory shall be limited to the receipt and delivery by hand to the
Ottoman Office of the messages arriving from India by the submarine cable •
to the transmission of those which are delivered to it by the Ottoman Office •
and lastly, to the superintendence and maintenance of a safe and regular
submarine communication between the mouth of the Shat-el-Arab* and
The DirecWin-Chief of the mixed station shall devolve on the Ottoman
Administration but without the right of interfering in the internal admini
stration of the British Office.
JI; or f Gr f 0 eusure promptitude in the Indo-European correspondence
and its regular transmission and receipt the Ottoman Government will not
tad to establish a permanent service at Bagdad and Fao, as well as at the
majority of stations on the main line of Asia between Constantinople and
±ao, and to appoint thereto a staff possessing a knowledge of the English
anguage sufficient for the perfect performance of that important service.
t} 16 0t toman 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. Government being desirous that the expeditious
transit of the Indo-European messages over its territory should lie rendered
stdl more satisfactory, engages to establish at Constantinople an office of
transmission devoted exclusively to the service of messages to and from
nd;a. Its officers, and especially the Station-master, shall be selected from
those of the Ottoman telegraph officials who are thoroughly conversant with
the English language.
V 1, Ottoman Government will take the necessary measures to secure
that one uire of the mam line from Constantinople to Eao, shall be always
exclusively devoted to Indo-European messages. In case this wire should
get out of order, or m case of a press of traffic, the official Indo-European
messages may be forwarded by one of the wires intended for local traffic,
but after the official despatches of the Ottoman Government. In that case
pm ate Indo-European despatches shall be forwarded, together with private
messages already deposited at the office, and in alternative order with those
fomi^posTtelf ma ^ ^ een ^ 1<3 ll0Ur at latter may have
, ^ Convention of Brussels, of 30th June 1858, in all that relates
to the details of the telegraphic service shall be mutually observed by the
IX It is agreed between the High Contracting Parties that the rates for
Indo-European messages sent by the Ottoman lines in Asia throughout their
whole extent from Constantinople to Eao, or to the Persian frontier in the
direction of Khanakam and mce versa, shall not exceed the limit of
f 7 1 f V a oy i f f!' a S1 » g e ra . ess ?Se sent from Constantinople to Fao or vise versa
and of 2-3 francs for a single message sent from Constantinople to Khanakain
or mce versa, as also that the rates for messages traversing the whole
ZZTiT r ne E° m J nd i a t0 Fao - or t0 Bush ire and vice shall not
i.iSSom w r "'”' 02 - ,r “ f ” ~ h ■■■si* tap.-h «,d
• ' 7lie ad “™ist r ations of the two contracting Governments will commu
nicate to each other with the least possible delay, the tariff of their stations
frn , r0nt n 111 S °A far ?- S they may have reference to the Indo-Ottoman
frontier ot hao According to that tariff the rates shall he mutuaUv
accounted for m the monthly accounts of messages exchanged between ti e
two administrations at the aforesaid frontier of Eao. 3 ' ,ctweon the
nf?J' T!ic rnl ’ fua ' account for telegraphic rates, expenses of postage and
. pi esses, &e., shall be checked at the expiration of every month’ and