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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRFTANNI<f JvfiJ&TY’S GOVERNMENT
Department of Overseas Trade to Foreign Office.—(Received December 22.)
THE Comptroller-General of the Department of Overseas Trade presents his
compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and transmits
herewith copy of despatch Overseas Trade (A) No. 176, from His Majesty’s
Ambassador at Rome, dated the 14th December, 1933, respecting the inauguration
of a new regular service to the Persian Gulf by the Lloyd Triestino Company.
Department of Overseas Trade,
(Overseas Trade (A) No. 176.)
Sir. Rome, December 14, 1933.
I HAVE the honour to inform you that the Sole of the 13th instant reports
that the Lloyd Triestino Company will inaugurate, on the 23rd instant, a new
regular service to the Persian Gulf, in connexion with important undertakings
going forward in this part of Asia, not up to the present served by Italian vessels,
as a result of the construction of important public works put in hand by the
Persian Government with a view to developing the economic activity of the country
and to increasing its trade with Europe.
2. This programme includes several bridges, electric power stations and a
railway trunk of 600 kilom., which will link up the vast hinterland to the port
of Bandar-Shahpur, all of which have been entrusted to Italian industry.
3. The new shipping service will be included in the seven lines at present
worked by the Lloyd Triestino Company to India, the Far East and Dutch East
indies and the Fenicia will operate the service.
PERSIA.
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December 22, 1933.
CONFIDENTIAL
Section 1 .
[E 7900/7900/34]
No. 1.
December 21, 1933.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Sir E. Drummond to Sir John Simon.
I have, &c.
ERIC DRUMMOND.
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