ملف ٥٦٤٦\١٩١٨ "بلاد فارس وبلاد الرافدين: ترتيبات التلغراف المستقبلية" [ظ‎‎٧] (٣٠٣/٢٣)

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This route is composed as follows : ,■ fi t telegraph lines have been
Between Baghdad and Basrah two enUielj ^ t | e other S1X> including
built of the most modern material, one caiiyin„ ^ .
^‘SrCah to Fao a newly-constructed permanent line with three wires is *
aVail Frmn Fao to Bushire two cables exist, one of which was recently laid.
From Bushire to .Task there are two cables ^ land lines ^
From Jask to Karachi tbere available, namely, the former Indo
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between Bushire and lehran, which t ^ liable communication between Tehran
necessary international link, but also provide
and Baghdad, i • u t} 1P foregoing is shown graphically.
I have before me a map on whm 1 ^ 8 ccmsiderations urged above, convinces
This map, viewed with reierenc whicll can be profitably encouraged,
me that the Khamqm-Tehran route n t ld be p-i V en to the Indo-European
I agree that e ^ r y t o beb ev e that refusal to give them access to
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S “t, w»”.ll bail» W .b» Admibistratiou ft. Ml .~i.
^hlherXebegtourge the following line of action which invokes Government
in no expense and appears to secnre the max^um adv^tage^ viz^^e^
(a) Th Compan y y toTeSish international routes both via Mesopotamia and
(51 That 1 the Mesopotamian route be preferably the Baghdad Railway to Mosul,
or alternatively vid the Euphrates to Baghdad. m i . K
f \ That concessions be given or obtained for the Indo-European Telegrapl
(C) 1 Company to construct or lease lines up to the Mesopotamian North-
Mi That the * Indo-European Telegraph Company’s section of the international
route shall terminate at the nearest convenient point to the Frontier,
-^such as Mosul, if it should follow that route. , T i
That\ Government shall lease the necessary wires to connect the Into-
European Telegraph Company’s line with their te^imus,^^situate^
(/) That the section east of this terminus shall be controlled by^ Government
through the Indo-European Telegraph Department, by arrangement with
the Mesopotamian Telegraph Department, which will place at then
disposal the necessary personnel, apparatus and lines.
I recognise that the foregoing involves some small extension of the activities of
the Indo-European Telegraph Department. I cannot, however believe that these
considerations will he anything but advantageous to the success ol tne scheme..
I attach a telegraph map of Mesopotamia and a small sketch map, showing the
various routes under discussion, with particulars of each telegraph line or cable.
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N. B. Fuller (Ft. Lieut., R.A.F.),
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