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File 4535/1928 Pt 7 ‘Persia: Telegraphs: Position of I.E.T. Dept:’ [252r] (509/927)
The record is made up of 1 volume (459 folios). It was created in 13 Feb 1929-24 Nov 1929. 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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not grant facilities whereby any other alternative route
competing with the Oomnunications Company rai^it be
established. After consultation with Sir William UcLintock,
I wrote to Sir Basil Blackett on the 1st august, pointing out
the difficulties as regards the reopening of the route. r i
Sir Basil Blackett himself had realised that it would be
very difficult, in the spirit of the international
Conventions to vhich India is a party, for the Government of
India to refuse facilities for ihro\x^i traffic to a
nei^ibouring Government, especially when the lines actually
exist, and the suggestion was made that the Communications
Company, which had now acquired the Indo-3uropean company,
, and which would take over the Gulf cable, uould be in the
best position to render this international route, if it
were continued, harmless. r Jhe Gulf cable, it should be
explained, is the alternative route for through messages.
It was also pointed out that, if the Department’s system
were handed over to die Persian Government, and if the Indo-
European Company’s system were taken over by the Governments
of the four countries (Germany, Poland, Russia and Persia),
it ould not be possible, without trie help of a joint purse,
for the international route to be worked commercially,
^specially if, as was not improbable, the system were wo need
loss efficiently than at present.
As regards the date of the termination of the
joint purse arrangement, I pointed out to Sir Basil Blackett
that under our concessions we were required to give six
norths’ notice to the Persian Government, and, althouji I
had no information on the point, I said 1 thought it was
probable that the Indo-European Company was under the same
°hligation. That being the position, it was obvious that
the transfer could not take place immediately, and so long
as we operated a section of die international route, the
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The volume contains papers, mostly correspondence, concerning the withdrawal of the Indo-European Telegraph Department from Persia [Iran]. The correspondence mainly relates to negotiations between the British and Persian Governments for the relinquishment of British control of a portion of the Indo-European Telegraph system in Persia, and negotiations between the British Government and the Imperial and International Communications Company Limited for the transfer of that portion of the telegraph system which would not be transferred to the Persian Government.
The main correspondents are as follows: the 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. ; the Foreign Office; HM Minister, Tehran (Sir Robert Clive) and HM Chargé d’Affaires, Tehran (Raymond Cecil Parr); the Government of India Foreign and Political Department; the Government of India Department of Industries and Labour; and the Director of the Persian Section of the Indo-European Telegraph Department (Eric Norris).
The file includes copies of several documents in French including: a letter from the Persian Minister of Court to Sir Robert Clive, dated 20 August 1929, with a copy of a 'Protocole relatif à Henjam'; and correspondence between Clive and the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, dated October 1930.
Other correspondents include Imperial and International Communications Limited, and the Indo-European Telegraph Company Limited.
The file also includes 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. minute papers and internal 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. notes.
The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (459 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
The subject 4535 ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and Persia: telegraphs) consists of nine files (seven volumes and two physical files), IOR/L/PS/10/1266-1274. The files are divided into seventeen parts, with parts 1 and 3 comprising one volume, part 2 comprising the second volume, part 5 comprising the third file, part 7 comprising the third and fourth volumes, parts 8 and 11 comprising the fifth volume, parts 13 to 15 comprising the sixth volume, part 16 comprising the seventh file, and parts 10 and 17 comprising the eighth volume.
A location list on folio 5 of IOR/L/PS/10/1271 and IOR/L/PS/10/1272 states that part 4 is Coll 30/75 (IOR/L/PS/12/3792), part 6 is Coll 29/68 (IOR/L/PS/12/3644), part 9 is Coll 30/17 (IOR/L/PS/12/3727), and part 12 is P 4480/1923 Pt 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/1099).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 461; 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.
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- Title
- File 4535/1928 Pt 7 ‘Persia: Telegraphs: Position of I.E.T. Dept:’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:17v, 20r:29v, 30v:73v, 74v:81v, 83r:168v, 169ar, 169r:183v, 186r:209r, 213r:262v, 266r:460v, back-i
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