File 5646/1918 'Persia and Mesopotamia: future telegraphic arrangements' [‎112r] (233/303)

private letter winch lias been received in this Department from the Dejiart-
ment of Overseas Trade, and of a telegram despatched by His Majesty’s
Minister at Teheran in regard to the general question as to telegraphic
communication with India.
2. A copy of the provisional reply 3 which ha's been returned to the
Department of Overseas Trade is also
' D ®P ajrtni | cllt T rade > enclosed herein for Mr. Montagu’s in-
dated 28th December 1918 (Annex 9). - . , °
formation.
3 . I am to request that you will be so good as to furnish me in due course
with Mr. Montagu’s observations on Sir P. Cox’s telegram and on the points
raised by the Department of Overseas Trade, from the point of view of the
Indo-European Telegraph Department.
I am, &c.,
The Under Secretary of State Eyre A. Crowe.
for India.
73, Basinghall Street, E.C. 2,
9tb December 1918.
Annex 1 :—Department of Overseas Trade to Foreign Office.
No. 202893.
Dear Tufton,
Some months ago I had to ask you for an opinion on the suggestion of
the Indo-European Telegraph Company for the establishment of telegraphic
2 ^ 0 communication with India after the war.
I now send revised proposals 2 by the
Company, and shall be glad to know whether the Foreign Office have any
observations to make upon them or any special points of view or considerations
which they wish to emphasise, in order that I may be adequately primed when
the question is discussed by the Cable (Landing Rights) Committee.
Yours sincerely,
The Hon. C. H. Tufton, C.M.G., E. G. A. Butler.
Foreign Office.
Annex- 2 :— Indo-European Telegraph Company, Limited, to General Post Of ice.
18, Old Broad Street, E.C. 2,
Sir, • 21st November 1918.
Refe rring to the memorandum and covering letter sent to your Depart
ment on 23rd January last, on the subject of the re-establishment of this
3 Aimex 3 Company’s telegraphic communications,
we now submit for the consideration
of the Postmaster-General a definite scheme 3 which we believe would, if
acceptable to Government, once more place the Company’s communications
upon a sound basis and offer a secure route to the users of the Company’s
line.
The Directors would ask the Postmaster-General to give these proposals
his serious consideration and would urge the importance of as early a decision
as possible.
VV e are, &c.,
J. H. Tritton,
Chairman.
T. W. Stratford-Andrews,
The Secretary, Managing'Director.
General Post Office. -
Annex 3 :—Memorandum by Indo-European Telegraph Company, Limited.
A memorandum setting out the several material features that would have
to be taken into consideration when the time came for the determination of the
route to be followed in future by the lines of the Indo-European Telegraph
Company was submitted to Government in the early part of this year, and
when considering the present definite proposals it would be well to refer to
the Memorandum.