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File 2626/1905 ‘Persia:- Military Attaché at Meshed’ [23r] (50/532)
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. 7.
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.
.
iNo. 4,000. Foreign Office,
_ 20tli February 1911.
Ine Under secretary of State for Foreign . Affairs presents bis
compliments to the Under Secretary of State for India, and, by direction
of the Secretaiy of State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned
paper.
Name and Date.
Subject.
Treasury, 6th February
Intelligence Officer at Meshed.
Annex.
Treasury to Foreign Office.
Treasury Chambers,
Sir, 6th February 1911.
I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s
Treasury to acknowlege the receipt of Mr. Mallet’s letter of the 19th
ultimo, further on the subject of the permanent appointment of an
intelligence officer at His Majesty’s Consulate-General at Meshed.
Their Lordships direct me to state that they have carefully considered
the correspondence in the matter, and note that on the one hand the
Army Council assess the interest of the War Department in the appoint
ment at not more than 500L a year, and that on the other Sir Edward
Grey still considers that the Imperial interest is of a purely military
character, although he would be willing, if their Lordships should so
desire, that half the salary of the post should continue to be borne on
Foreign Office votes.
In these circumstances, while attaching due importance to the view
expressed by Sir E. Grey in Mr. Mallet’s letter to the
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.
of the
12th October last, as to the fairness of the Imperial Government’s
present contribution of one-half the pay of the officer only, excluding all
contingent and other expenses, my Lords are willing to agree to a con
tribution of 500Z. a year being made to the Government of India in
respect of this post, in lieu of the present contribution, as from 1st April
next, subject to the arrangement being reviewed in two years from the
1st January last, as suggested by the War Department.
The payment of this contribution should be made from Army f™d s,
and my Lords are authorising the Army Council (to whom a copy ot this
letter is being sent) to make provision in Army Estimates accordingly.
I am, Ac.,
The Under Secretary of State, G- H. Murray.
Foreign Office.
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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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- File 2626/1905 ‘Persia:- Military Attaché at Meshed’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:263v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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