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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [173v] (346/644)
The record is made up of 1 file (320 folios). It was created in 6 Dec 1933-27 Mar 1947. It was written in English and French. 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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their effect, and in the middle of September a cheque was received for slightly
under 75,000 rials (£935), which met in full all the 1934 claims. 1 he covering
note stated, however, that this payment must not be regarded as constituting a
precedent, and made no mention of the commandeering which occurred at the end
of 1935.
67. To turn for a moment to the later case, the position was that fourteen
British-owned lorries had been irregularly commandeered at Zahidan at the end
of 1935, that nine British subjects had been maltreated, and that five claimed
damages in respect of lorries or parts seized by the military authorities. Further
more, a number of lorries had been damaged as a result of overloading, and the
military authorities, who had fixed no rates of hire with the drivers in advance,
were only willing after the event to pay them at quite uneconomic rates. The
matter was taken up most energetically by His Majesty’s vice-consul at Zahidan,
but though the Governor-General of Mehran proved sympathetic and appointed a
commission to go into the matter, the military authorities refused to pay more
than the original rates offered. These rates the Indian drivers refused to accept,
communicating their refusal in writing to the Governor-General, and the whole
question thus remained open. It is noteworthy, however, that the commanding
officer, who doubtless realised that he had acted most irregularly, and possibly
feared trouble from Tehran, endeavoured to hush the whole matter up by offering
the drivers an extra 500 rials (£6 5s.) out of his own pocket.
68. When the cheque was received to meet the 1934 claims it was therefore
necessary to point out to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs that nothing had
apparently been done to settle the 1935 case. The request was therefore made that
the matter should be speedily closed by the issue of instructions to the authorities
at Zahidan to pay the drivers concerned for their services at the rate of hire
equivalent to the prevailing market rate, and to reimburse them for any losses and
damages which they had suffered while under the orders of the military. Despite
this request, the matter unfortunately still remained unsettled at the end of the
year.
69. Early in the year it had been discovered that articles of the treaty of 1935
between Iran and Bussia provided that the nationals of each country, while in the
territory of the other, should be exempt from all forms of compulsory service,
whether civil or military, except in the event of some calamity of nature. A later
paragraph of this same article extended to loans under compulsion. After an
exchange of correspondence with the Foreign Office and the Government of India,
His Majesty’s Legation was authorised to endeavour to secure most-favoured
nation treatment for British subjects in this respect under article 12 of the Anglo-
Persian Treaty of 1857, and it was decided to request that exemption from
commandeering should be extended not only to British subjects but to their lorries
as well, on the ground that the commandeering of a lorry was tantamount to a
loan made under compulsion. No steps were taken to put forward this request until
the 1934 claims had been met, though an unofficial warning of the intended action
was given earlier to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs; but on receipt of the cheque
it seemed that the moment had arrived to endeavour to regularise the matter for
the future, and an official request was accordingly made that instructions should
be issued to all the authorities concerned that British lorry-drivers and British-
owned lorries should be exempt from commandeering except in the single clear
contingency of some calamity of nature. It proved impossible to extract a reply
to this note by the end of the year.
(d) Lorry Traffic on the Zakidan-Nok Kundi Road.
70. Much correspondence was exchanged during the early part of the year
between the Government of India, His Majesty’s Legation and His Majesty’s
consul-general for Khorassan in an endeavour to devise a system for the regulation
of traffic on the Zahidan-Nok Kundi road which would remedy the grievances
at present felt both by the Government of India and the Iranian Government. In
previous years the great bulk of the traffic had been carried in Indian-owned
lorries, but the treatment of Indian drivers by the Iranian authorities was in
many respects vexatious. On the other hand, the Iranian Government were
annoyed at the refusal of the Government of India to grant visas to operate on
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Annual reports for Persia [Iran] produced by staff at the British Legation in Tehran. The reports were sent to the Foreign Office by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran (from 1943, Ambassador to Iran). The reports cover the following years: 1932 (ff 2-50); 1933 (ff 51-98); 1934 (ff 99-128); 1935 (ff 129-165); 1936 (ff 166-195); 1937 (ff 196-227); 1938 (ff 228-249); 1939 (ff 250-251); 1940 (ff 252-257); 1941 (ff 258-266); 1942 (ff 267-277); 1943 (ff 278-289); 1944 (ff 290-306); 1945 (ff 307-317); 1946 (ff 318-320).
The reports for 1932 to 1938 are comprehensive in nature (each containing their own table of contents), and cover: an introductory statement on affairs in Persia, with a focus on the Shah’s programme of modernisation across the country; an overview of foreign relations between Persia and other nations, including with the United Kingdom, British India, and Iraq; Persia’s involvement in international conventions and agreements, for example the League of Nations and the Slave Traffic Convention; British interests in or associated with Persia, including Bahrain and Bahrainis resident in Persia, the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. at Bushire, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Imperial Bank of Persia, and the Imperial and International Communications Company; political affairs in Persia, including court and officials, majlis, tribes and security; economic affairs in Persia (government finances and budgets, trade, industry, agriculture, opium production); communications (aviation, railways, roads); consular matters; military matters (army, navy, air force).
Reports from 1939 to 1946 are briefer in nature, Reports from 1941 onwards focusing on the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia, and the role of United States advisors in the Persian Government’s administration.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (320 folios)
- Arrangement
The file’s reports are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. Each report for the years 1932-1938 begins with a table of contents referring to that report’s own printed pagination sequence.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 321; 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.
The file contains one foliation anomaly, f 308A
Pagination: Each of the reports included in the file has its own printed pagination system, commencing at 1 on the first page of the report.
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- Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’
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- front, front-i, 2r:91r, 92r:308v, 308ar:308av, 309r:320v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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