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In any further communication
this subject, please Quote
' n°-X 5656/ 1/503
and address,
,ioi to any person by name,
but to-
‘‘Tho Under-Secretary of State,”
foreign Olliee,
London, S.W. 1.
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Foreign Office.
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19th July, 1923.
Sir,
I am directed hy the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs to refer to yoar letter of the 18th July, 1921
(p/2622) and to transmit ; herewith, the accompanying copy
of a despatch from His Majesty’s Minister at Teheran,
relative to the v/ages of the servants of His Majesty’s
Legation at that capital.
2. It appears from Sir Percy Loraine’s despatch that the
cost of living in Persia is now ahoat two hundred and fifty
nine per cent higher than in 1913 and that consequently
no reduction in the wages of the servants, which are fifty
X)er cent above the rates paid in 1914, is at present
justified.
3. I am, therefore, to request that you will move the
Secretary of Sta,te for India in Council to sanction the
continuance of the existing rates of wages for a further
period of two years from October 1st next and to approve
the increases in the wages of the six grooms and two water
carriers of twelve and a half iirans and two brans a month
each respectively.
4. a similar letter has been addressed to ohe Treasuiy.
I am,