File 2626/1905 ‘Persia:- Military Attaché at Meshed’ [‎18r] (40/532)

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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. , London,
17th March 1911.
Political,
No. 21.
To His Excellency the Right Honourable the Grovernor
General of India in Council.
* To Foreign Office, dated 2nd Sep
tember 1910.
From ditto, dated 12th October 1910.
To ditto, dated 18th October 1910.
From ditto, dated 2nd November 1910,
and enclosure.
From ditto, dated 19th January 1911,
and enclosures.
From War Office, dated 13th February
1911, and enclosure.
From Foreign Office, dated 20th
February 1911, and enclosure.
My Lord,
With reference to the letter of the Government of India in the
rpi J t Army Department, No. 67, Secret,
i he appointment of a Military , ^ , T . . T p ’
Attache at Meshed. dated 7th Ju W last > 1 forward, for
the information of Your Excellency
in Council, copy of correspondence’ 1 ' that has passed between the various
departments concerned regarding
the appointment of Military Intel
ligence Officer at Meshed, from
which it will be seen that His
Majesty’s Treasury are willing to
agree to a contribution of 500L
a year being made, in lieu of the
present contribution, as from 1st
April next, subject to a review of
the arrangement in two years from 1st January last.
2. In these circumstances I sanction the continuance of the appoint
ment for two years from 1st April next, on the understanding that such
savings are effected on the estimate enclosed in your Army Department
Letter, No. 42, of 12th May last, as will keep the total expenditure within
Rs. 30,000 a year.
3. I request that you will furnish me early in December 1912 with
your views as to the farther continuance of the appointment.
4. A claim has been preferred on the Foreign Office for a moiety of
3,304Z. 16s. Id., being the expenditure on the Military Attache’s pay and
allowances from 1904-05 to the 21st October 1908, as shown in the first
four columns of Enclosure 1 of your Army Department Letter (Secret),
No. 42, of 12th May last. In view of the decision of the Treasury it
would be useless to press a claim for any portion of the contingent
expenditure.
5. I request that you will forward, as soon as possible, a statement
of the expenditure on the post from 21st October 1908 to 31st March
10387. 1. 654. A