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File 2626/1905 ‘Persia:- Military Attaché at Meshed’ [21v] (47/532)
The record is made up of 1 volume (259 folios). It was created in 1 Dec 1904-16 Nov 1911. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: 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. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Enclosure No. 5 .
No. 1,223.
Foreign Office to
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.
.
Foreign Office,
19th January 1911.
The Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his
compliments to the Under Secretary of State for India, and by direct,on
of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copies of the tinder-
mentioned papers.
Name and Date.
Subject.
War Office, 4th January
0
1911.
Treasury, 10th January
[Intelligence Officer at Meshed.
1911.
To Treasury, 19th January
1911.
J
Annex 1.
War Office to Foreign Office.
No. 0162/95. (F. 1.) Secret. War Office,
gi r? 4th January 1911.
In reply to your letter No. 38,002, of 2nd November last, regarding
the appointment of Intelligence Officer at Meshed, I am commanded by
the Army Council to send you the enclosed copy of a letter which has
this day been addressed to the Treasury on the subject.
I am, &c.,
The Under Secretary of State, 11. H. Brade.
Foreign Office.
Annex 2.
War Office to Treasury.
Secret. War Office,
Sir, 4th January 191
With reference to a letter addressed to this Department by the
Foreign Office on 2nd November last, No. 38002, (of which a copy was
forwarded to you), on the subject of the post of Military Attache at
Meshed, I am commanded by the Army Council to ask you to lay the
following remarks before the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s
Treasury.
The presence of a trained Intelligence Officer at Meshed constitutes
the sole means of obtaining accurate information regarding events on
the northern frontiers of Afghanistan and in Central Asia, and the
Council are satisfied as to its necessity on military grounds. They are
further of opinion that the Government of India should bear half the
total cost (2,130Z. per annum), of the appointment. Such a division of
cost follows the precedent of the Robat detachment (Treasury letter
No. 6061, dated 2nd May 1907), and is in general accord with the
principles recommended by Lord Welby’s Commission in 1900, as to the
partition of charges between the Indian and the Imperial Exchequers in
cases of expenditure in connection with that part of Central Asia which
is adjacent to the borders of India or Afghanistan. (Paragraph 307 of
Report).
As regards the division of the Imperial share of the cost between the
Foieign Office and this Department, it appears to the Council that, as a
source oi reliable information not otherwise available to the Foreign
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The volume contains correspondence and notes by British officials about government expenditure on the Government of India post of Military Attaché at the British Consulate General at Meshed in Persia. The main correspondents are senior officials in London at the Foreign Office, 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. , War Office and Treasury. They discuss the joint funding of this post by the Government of India and the Home Government in London (also referred to as the Imperial Government), the continuance of the existing financial contribution to the salary for this post by the Foreign Office and an additional contribution by the War Department out of Army funds, 1910-1911. The correspondence includes representations in 1905 from Arthur Hardinge the Consul General at Tehran, Lieutenant Colonel C F Minchin the Consul General for the province of Khorasan at Meshed and his successor Major P Molesworth Sykes, to the Government of India and the Home Government in London, advocating the retention of Meshed as a centre of military intelligence about Russian Central Asia and the appointment there of a military intelligence officer, given the absence of a British Consular presence in Russian Turkestan and the value of such intelligence gathering to Government of India military authorities in particular.
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- 1 volume (259 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 2626 (Persia – Military Attaché at Meshed) consists of one volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 264; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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