ملف ٥٦٤٦\١٩١٨ "بلاد فارس وبلاد الرافدين: ترتيبات التلغراف المستقبلية" [ظ‎أ‎‎٢‎٣] (٣٠٣/٥٥)

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P. 84G7.
India Office,
Whitehall, S.W., ],
12th February 1920. '
Sir,
With reference to correspondence ending’ with your telegram
No. 15433, dated 22nd December 1919, on the subject of international
telegraph communication via Mesopotamia, I am directed by the Secretary of
1 (1) Dated Ut December 1919, and State for India to forward for your
enclosure I.C.C. No. 168. consideration copies of the marginally
(‘2) Dated 31st December 1919 and n . TA .
noted memoranda 1 by the Director-in-
enclosure I.C.C. No. 182.
(3) Dated 6th January 1920.
Chief, Indo-European Telegraph De
partment, together with their annexures.
At the present time the Indo-European Telegraph Company have not
finally decided whether to attempt the reorganization of their route by laying
cables through the Mediterranean or by reconstructing their continental line
through Germany and south-west Russia; the latest indication is that they
would probably prefer to endeavour to adopt the latter course even though
it would in present circumstances require longer to become operative. In
either event they propose to link up with the Mesopotamian system at some
point on the western or north-western frontier of Mesopotamia.
I am to request that after perusal of the enclosures you will be so good
as to submit for the consideration of His Majesty’s Government proposals
for coming to a working arrangement with the Indo-European Telegraph
Company, bearing in mind the fact that it is of great importance that
additional circuits should be provided as soon as possible for the trans
mission of international traffic with the East, and that for this reason alone
the elimination of a Company which is anxious to provide additional circuits,
and could probably provide them as early as any organisation js inexpedient.
It would be convenient if your reply could be communicated by
telegraph, or that the gist of it, at any rate, should be so communicated, as
the question is one that may at any moment develop a considerable degree
of urgency.
1 am,
Sir,
Tour obedient Servant,
j. a. Shuckburgii. 10
Civil Commissioner,^
Baghdad.
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