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'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [153r] (310/610)
The record is made up of 1 volume (301 folios). It was created in 1922. 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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4. Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Limited. —In 1919 this
Corporation took over the long-standing business of Messrs,
Lynch Brothers and Stephen Lynch and Company, Baghdad.
Its head office is in London with agents in Tehran, Isfahan,
Ahwaz and Muhammarah.
It is concerned with import and export business to Persia
and is agent for the Persian Transport Company and the Euph
rates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company.
5. Messrs. Ziegler. —This is the longest established British
trading company in Persia with branches at Tehran, Tabriz,
Sultanabad, Isfahan, Shiraz, and Bushire. The head office is
in Manchester.
It is chiefly interested in the import to Persia of Manchester
goods.
Russian Interests.
1. The Russian Bank called the Banque D’Escompte De
Perse.— This institution was founded in 1892 under the name of
Banque Des Prets De Perse, under a concession from the Persian
Government and was chiefly engaged in pawnhroking business^
After 1900 it very largely increased its business as a bank
and started keen competition with the Imperial Bank as
described in paragraph (a) above, page 260.
It was really a branch of the Russian State Bank, conducted
on the same lines as the Russian Bank in China and utilized to
further Russian financial control in Persia.
During the last 10 years it has been finding its very large
advances to Persians difficult of recovery and therefore was
obliged to restrict its operations. Since the Russian revolution
it has been hard pressed to meet the claims of its depositors.
At present it appears only to be endeavouring to realize
its assets in order to meet its liabilities in Persia.
2. Russian Road Company. —The company constructed the
Rasht-Kazvln-Tehran and some years later in 1907 the Qazian
(Enzall)Rasht and the Kazvin-Hamadan roads were opened to
traffic.
The'road concession was obtained from the Persian Govern
ment in 1893.
The capital of the company was 3,200,000 roubles, of which
1,700,000 were in shares taken by the public, and 1,500,000 in
debentures taken by the Russian Government, which also
guaranteed 5 per cent, on the shares. About two-thirds of the
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Military report compiled by Captain LS Fortescue of the General Staff of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force and printed in Calcutta at the Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1922.
The volume begins with a statement defining the geographical area covered by the report. The report is divided into ten chapters, plus appendices, each concerning a different subject, as follows:
- Chapter 1: History
- Chapter 2: Geography
- Chapter 3: Climate, Water, Medical and Aviation
- Chapter 4: Ethnography
- Chapter 5: Administration (including a table of provinces with administrative details (folios 123-30)
- Chapter 6: Armed Forces of the Persian Government
- Chapter 7: Economic Resources
- Chapter 8: Tribes
- Chapter 9: Personalities
- Chapter 10: Communications
- Appendices: Glossary of terms; Weights, measures and coinage; Bibliography; Historical sketch (Chapter 1) continued from June 1920 to the end of 1921
At the back of the volume (folio 302) is a map to illustrate the report.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (301 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a contents page (folio 5) and list of illustrations (folio 6) at the front of the volume and an index at the back (folios 270-300). All refer to the volume's original pagination. The index also includes map references of all places marked on the map.
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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 303; 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.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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