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File 897/1912 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [144v] (293/684)
The record is made up of 1 volume (336 folios). It was created in 1920-1922. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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4
ladite Convention confonnement aux dis
positions suivantes :
Article 1.
Definition de V Union Postale.
Les pays entre lesquels est conclue
la presente Convention, ainsi que ceux
qui y adhereront ulterieurement, tor
ment, sous la denomination d’Union
postale universelle, un seul territoire
postal pour 1’echange reciproque des
correspondances entre leurs bureaux de
poste.
Article 2.
Envois auxquels s'applique la
Convention.
Les dispositions de cette Convention
s’etendent aux lettres, aux cartes postales
simples et avec reponse payee, aux im-
primes de toute nature, aux papiers
d’affaires et aux echantillons de mar-
chandises originaires de Tun des pays
de 1’Union et a destination d’un autre
de ces pays. Elies s’appliquent egale-
ment a recliange postal des objets ci-
dessus entre les pays de 1’Union et les
pays etrangers a 1’Union, toutes les fois
que cet echange emprunte les services
de deux des parties contractantes au
moins.
Article 3.
Transport des depeches entre pays
limitrophes ; services tiers.
1. Les Administrations des postes des
pays limitrophes ou aptes a correspondre
directement entre eux sans emprunter
I’intermediaire des services d’une tierce
Administration, determinent, d’un com-
mun accord, les conditions du transport
de leurs depeches reiproques a travers
la frontiere ou d’une frontiere a 1’autre.
2. A moins d’arrangement contraire,
on considere comme services tiers les
transports maritimes effectues directe
ment entre deux pays, au moyen de
paquebots ou batiments dependant de
1’un d’eux, et ces .transports, de meme
que ceux effectues entre deux bureaux
d’un meme pays, par 1’intermediaire de
services maritimes ou territoriaux depen
dant d’un autre pays, sont regis par les
dispositions de Particle suivant.
3. Les hautes parties contractantes
s’engagent a ne pas imposer, au titre
postal, d’obligations speciales aux paque
bots affectes a des services reguliers de
transport des correspondances et depen
dant d’un pays de PUnion, en echange
des avantages et privileges qui pourraient
tion, revised the said Convention to read
as follows :
Article 1.
Definition of the Postal Union.
The countries between which the
present Convention is concluded, as well
as those which may adhere to it hereafter,
form, under the title of Universal Postal
Union, a single postal territory for the
reciprocal exchange of correspondence
between their Post Offices.
Article 2.
Articles to which the Convention applies.
The provisions of this Convention
cover letters, postcards, both single and
reply-paid, printed papers of every kind,
commercial papers, and samples of mer
chandise originating in one of the
countries of the Union and addressed to
another of those countries. They also
apply to the exchange by post of the
articles above mentioned between the
countries of the Union and countries out
side the Union, whenever the services
of two of the contracting parties at least
are used for that exchange.
Article 3.
Conveyance of mails between contiguous
countries ; Third services.
1. The Postal Administrations of con
tiguous countries or countries able to
correspond directly with each other with
out making use of the services of a
third Administration settle, by mutual
consent, the conditions of conveyance
across the frontier or from one frontier
to the other of the mails which they
exchange.
2. In the absence of any other
arrangement, the direct sea conveyance
between two countries by means of
Packets or vessels maintained by one of
them is considered as a third service;
and this conveyance, as well as convey
ance between two offices of the same
country, by means of sea or land services
maintained by another country, is
governed by the terms of the following
Article.
3. The high contracting parties under
take not to impose, on postal grounds,
special obligations on Packets employed
in regular Mail services and maintained
by a country of the Union, in exchange
for advantages and privileges which may
exist or be established in favour of any
About this item
- Content
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, telegrams, handwritten notes and other papers. They relate to negotiations between the British Government, the Government of India, and the Persian Government, over the status of British Indian post offices in south Persia, which took place before, during, and after the Congress of the Universal Postal Union, held in Madrid in November 1920. The volume’s principal correspondents include: the British Ambassador to Madrid (Sir Esme Howard); the Persian Minister to Madrid (Hussein Khan Alai); India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. staff (David Taylor Monteath; Leonard Day Wakely; John Evelyn Shuckburgh); Foreign Office officials (including Lancelot Oliphant); the Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs in India (Geoffrey R Clarke); and the British Minister at Tehran (Herman Cameron Norman; Sir Percy Lyham Loraine).
The correspondence centres on a threat by Persian Government officials to raise an official objection against the continued presence in Persia of British Indian post offices at the Madrid Congress. British Government officials were anxious to avoid such a move, fully appreciating the ‘anomalous’ position of their Persian post offices under the regulations of the Universal Postal Union. The correspondence indicates the Government of India’s amenability to handing over certain postal operations to the Persian authorities (folio 251), and the concerns held by many in the British Government over such a prospect (ff 288-289), not least their doubts over whether the Persian authorities could run an efficient postal service themselves.
The volume includes:
- a commentary of proceedings at the Madrid Congress, including copies of the speeches given by Persian ministers (ff 247-249), description of their reception (f 251), and a printed copy of the Madrid Convention (ff 143-158);
- correspondence relating to the impact of changes in Anglo-Persian relations (after the 1921 coup d’état in Persia) on Persian demands for the abolition of British Indian post offices in Persia (ff 217-218);
- throughout 1921, continued demands from the Persian Government for the transfer of British Indian post offices to Persian control, and in particular those now under (post-war) Mesopotamian administration (Abadan and Mohammerah [Khorramshahr]) and the post office at Ahwaz [Ahvāz];
- from January 1922, debate amongst British officials (Government of India, the Minister in Tehran, Foreign Office, India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. ) and negotiations between British and Persian Government officials over arrangements for the transfer of British Indian postal services in Persia to Persian administration, with a view to the transfer taking place on 1 January 1922. Included is a copy in French of the agreement between British and Persian officials for the proposed transfer, dated 5 January 1922 (ff 54-57), discussion relating to the importance of sustaining a postal service for areas serving the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) oil fields, and reports of the dismissal of the Director of the Persian postal service (Camille Molitor) in March 1922, causing consternation amongst British officials (ff 47-49, ff 84-91);
- British officials’ examination of events at the Washington Conference (1921/1922), which provided an analogous diplomatic situation to their own (negotiations for the withdrawal of United States post offices from China) (ff 81-83);
- the British Government’s assent, in April/May 1922, to the abolition or transfer to the Persian authorities of its post offices in Persia and Arabistan (ff 20-22, ff 66-70).
Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (336 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
The subject 897 ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. : British Post Offices) consists of 4 volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/242-245. The volumes are divided into 4 parts with each part comprising one volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 340; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Two additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 42-62 and ff 217-321; these numbers are written in blue crayon.
Pagination: a original printed pagination sequence is also present in parallel between ff 143-158.
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- Title
- File 897/1912 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’
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- 143r:158v
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