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File 5646/1918 'Persia and Mesopotamia: future telegraphic arrangements' [21r] (50/303)
The record is made up of 1 volume (146 folios). It was created in Sep 1916-1 Jul 1920. 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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,with which we are immediately
concemed ; will be increased and they will no doubt be ready
to increase it still further when they find it necessary to
do so. I reported in my note of the 31st ultimo that the
H Indo? Company have dropped their proposal to lay cables in
the Mediterranean and have applied for the approval of the
British G-overnment to the restoration of: their old route
between the United Kingdom and Odessa whence they propose to
establish, as soon as circumstances permit, alternative
routes to Teheran via Constantinople and Bagdad and by their
original route through the Caucasus. The Imperial Commu
nications Committee have approved of their proposal to which
I have tentatively agreed for the reason that the more alter
native routes there are available the better for the public
service.
The Civil Commissioner, hov;ever objects to the H Indo H
Company* s presence in Mesopotamia and the question of most
importance is whether if access to Mesopotamia is denied them
and their old route remains unavailable the Company will be
driven into liquidation. This would, I think, be considered
an unfortunate result seeing that money has been spent in
keeping the Company in being and it would leave their old route
open to exploitation, when circumstances admit of it, by a
foreign
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
. At any rate I see no good reason to discourage
them at the present stage for they have much to do before they
will be ready to knock dlt the Mesopotamian door aftd I therefore
again submit that the Secretary of State should concur in the
terms of the resolutions of the Imperial Communications Committee.
|jrhe absence of a verb in the first sentence of para(3)
of the Government of India*s telegram render^ its meaning
obscure and it is doubtful whether they do or do not concu
in Colonel Wilson*s proposals respecting an extension of the
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This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes, regarding the importance of re-establishing telegraphic communication between India and England via the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Mesopotamia [Iraq] to Mediterranean ports under British control.
The papers notably cover the following: postwar reorganisation of the telegraph communication, including the rebuilding of lines, re-establishing of old routes, introducing new routes, and proposals submitted by the Indo-European Company; relations with and between the Indo-European Company, Indo-European Department and the Eastern Telegraph Company.
Also included in the volume are the following documents:
- ‘A collection of Conventions and Agreements relating to Telegraphs in Turkey in Asia, Persia, the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Mekran, September 1916’ (ff 127-144)
- ‘Indo-European Telegraph Department. Statement showing Amounts paid into and drawn out of the Indian Joint Purse by the Department to the year 1917-1918’ (f 122)
- ‘War cabinet. Imperial Communications Committee's proposed diversion of the Indo-European Telegraph Company’s route of India’ (ff 58-65)
- Four maps in showing the lines of telegraphic communication between Europe and India passing through Persia [Iran] and Mesopotamia (ff 13, 14, 37 and 123).
The volume comprises internal correspondence between British officials of different departments. The principal correspondents are: the Committee of Imperial Defence, Imperial Communications Committee; Sir Rayner Barker, Director-in-Chief of the Indo-European Department; the Civil Commissioner, Mesopotamia [also known as Civil Commissioner, Baghdad]; the Acting Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia; the Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Council; and the General Post Office.
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- 1 volume (146 folios)
- Arrangement
The contents are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 144; 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. Multiple intermittent additional foliation sequences are also present. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
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- File 5646/1918 'Persia and Mesopotamia: future telegraphic arrangements'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1r:12v, 15r:22v, 23ar:23av, 23v:66v, 68r:81v, 83r:114v, 115ar:115av, 115v:118v, 119ar:119av, 119v:122v, 124r:144v, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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