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File 5646/1918 'Persia and Mesopotamia: future telegraphic arrangements' [31v] (72/303)
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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and it seems to me most desirable that every effort
should be made to keep this agreement in being and this
can only be done by the revival of an "Indo" route.
(3) It is to be remembered that although the old Indo
route is unusable^ at the moment a turn of the wheel of
fat© may make it, in the not very distant future, once more
available. Assuming that the Cis-Indian Joint Purse
agreement has ceased to exist^it is possible to conceive
of a situation arising in which the Mesopotamian route
would find itself in competition with the Eastern Telegraph
Company on one side and a rival system, possibly foreign,
on the others ‘ If these rivals combine the Mesopotamian
route will be starved. It seems to me therefore wiser
for Mesopotamia^ to prevent such a situation arising, to
come to terms for a fair division of the traffic while
ther4 is yet time.
x Colonel Wilson fears that the admission into Mesopotamia
of the Indo-European Telegraph Company will lead to a
reduction of the revenue he hopes to obtain from the telegraph
traffic transiting that region. That fear is groundless
because the Company will, I am sure, forego the collection
of the revenue provided that their out-of-pocket expenses
are made good and if that arrangement is preferred to the
leasing to them of a wire or wires. The former system
has been successfully adopted in India where the Eastern
Telegraph Company work the transit telegraph traffic between
Bombay and Madras. The Government of India take the transit
revenue and pay the Company the actual cost of the work done
by them which includes such items as personnel, battery power,
office accommodation (if provided atr.the expense of vthe Company)
etc., etc.
The working of such long circuits as those which existed
between Karachi and the United Kingdom before theiwar can only
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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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