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From Viceroy,
Dated 24th August 1916.
Secret. Persia. Your telegrams of 28th July, 2nd Aup*ust h
|21st August. Bunder Abbas Kerman telegraph line. We regret
delay in replying, due partly to difficulty in obtaining
$6cnnical iu-iorelation irom Director of Persian Gulf section
of I.iu.iel. Dept, and partly to undertainty of situation on
Kerman road (vide out telegram of 19th August).
Je no?/ recon end construction on the following lines:
alignment viA Daulatabad ano. Baft with iron wire for telegraph
and bronze wire for telephone. For first 30 miles Siemens
posts central Persian pattern will be used; for remaining
240 miles Indian A.B.posts former with brackets and insulators
^ill De supplied by l.E.Tel. Dept, who will also provide both
iron and bronze wires;l)In view, however of .great shortage of
stock please send 300 miles of 4 millimetre iron wire
offered in your telegram of 2nd August to replace stock.
(B ) Arrangements are in train for despatcllof these materials
at once to Bunder Abbas. Cost is estimated at roughly
£25,000. This will presumably pending eventual arrangements
with Persian Government be between Horne and Indian
Govts.(<4) We presume that it is unnecessary to await
as^rangement of Persian Govt, to this project which may be
corollary of Sykes’ Military Police Scheme.
(0 In view of Bahar Lu lawlessness question of protection of
work parties presents difficulties. It may be possible to
arrange protection by means of subsidies to tribes & local levies
but we should be glad of authority to start work as
circumstances may admit^pPresumably line after construction
will form a part of l.E.Tel. Dept, system. I Jjks regards
improvements of* road we propose, if you approve^to despatch -an
engineer officer with a small subordinate staff to examine the
route & report k thereafter to start work as soon as possible.
Addressed to/ Secretary of State k repeated to Teheran as
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