مجموعة ٢٩ /٤٢ "النفقات الدبلوماسية والقنصلية: المساهمات (من الإيرادات الهندية) في دفع تكلفة وجود قس بريطاني في طهران؛ المقابر المسيحية في بلاد فارس والخليج الفارسي" [و‎‎٦‎٩] (٧٠٤/١٣٦)

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FOREIGN OFFICE,
S.W.l.
8th April, 1937.
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With relerence to Foreign Office letter K 4700/593^/34
of the ICth October laBt enclosing a copy of a letter to the
India Office regarding the xuture maintenance of the British
cemeteries at Henjara and Basidu, I am directed by Mr. Secretary
.den to request you to inform the Lords Commissioners of His
Majesty’s Treasury that the Government of India agree to the
registration of these cemeteries in ^he name ol he Lnperia-i.
War Graves Consul salon.
£. The Government of India also draw attention ^o the
fact, however, that while the maintenance charges in respect
of the upkeep of the cemetery at Henjam have hitherto been
met from Indian revenues alone, the similar charges in the cnbe
of the Baeidu cemetery, although paid in the first, place out oi
Indian revenues, have eventually been shared equally between His
Majesty’s Government and the Government of India under the
existing arrangements for the division of expenditure in Persia
and the Persian Gulf. They observe that there are no apparent
grounds for a differentiation between the two cemeteries and they
suggest that the expenditure on both henceforth should be shared
equally between His Majesty’s Government and the Government of
India on the analogy of all Diplomatic and Consular expendit ire
in Persia. if this suggestion is accepted, they are willing to
share the sxpaAditure on the maintenance and registration charges
of these cemeteries with His Majesty’s Government accordingly.
3* Mr# Keen agrees that there is not, in fact, any clear
reason why a differentiation should be made between the two
cemeteries in regard to the cost of upkeep or registration and
I am to enquire whether Their Loraehips agree to the proposal
that future expenditure on the Henjam cemetery (which only
amounts to about 100 Rupees per annum) should like that on