مجموعة ٢٨/٢٤ "بلاد فارس. العلاقات مع حكومة بريطانيا. مطالبات خاصة ضد الحكومة الفارسية من جانب أعضاء في إدارة التلغراف الهندو-أوروبية." [ظ‎‎٣] (٢٨/٦)

anxious to dissociate themselves from any contingent
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liability, and on the whole I suggest, subject to your
observations, that we may accept their view and indicate
our readiness formally to relieve them of liability.
Have you any reason to suppose that any claims aie li.^- 1/
to be received, or that, if they are received, they are
likely to be of any importance?
I presume the P.O. refer only to
claims by British subjects;private claims by Persian
subjects being made through Persian official channels.
So far as I am aware there are no outstanding private
claims against the Persian Government by the British
members of the staff in Persia and I do not think
that any are likely to arise. The Persian line staff
have from time to time lost property from civil
disturbances and so far as the loss was a result of
their employment compensation has been given by the
Department ;inA other cases the claims have been
passed on to the Persian Government and I fear have
received only the same treatment as claims from
other Persian subjects. In any case the claims of
the line staff would be unimportant,and I agree we may
safely accept the F.O. view.
The word M claims” is important to us as
it will cover the Persian clAim to be paid the
balance due to then of the Terminal Rate and Traffic
Account