Coll 28/24 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Private Claims against Persian Govt by members of the I.E.T.D.’ [‎4r] (7/28)

2871 5000 6/28
Minute Paper.
Department.
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Account,which now amounts at the present rather
abnormal exchange rate to approximately "So.
5 lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees of rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. . Without the word M claims”
it might be possible for Persia to argue that,
behalf for telegraph traffic,they were entitled
to receive this balance on the grounds that it
did not properly constitute a "debt".
I concur with the terms of the proposed
draft letter to the F.O.
that there is probably not much in this question.
I doubt if it is worth referring in our letter to the
Foreign Office to the distinction between claims by
British subjects and by Persian subjects. The
Telegraph Department in the past seems to have used
its discretion in the case of the latter as between
paying a measure of compensation itself and
referring the claimants to their own Government. If
a particularly deserving case were to be brought up
in the future we could no doubt consider (particularly
as the amount involved would be unlikely to be of
importance) some §& gratia payment. I submit a draft
letter to Mr. Rendel for my signature, if approved.
representing as it does money collected on their
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Sir Maurice Simpson’s minute suggests
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