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File 897/1912 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [‎145v] (295/684)

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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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postales et a 20 centimes par kilo
gramme d’autres objets, si le trajet
n’excede pas 300 milles marins.
Toutefois, le transport maritime
sur un trajet n’excedant pas 300
milles marins est gratuit si TAd
ministration interessee re^oit deja,
du chef des depeches transportees,
la remuneration afferente au transit
territorial;
(b) a 4 francs par kilogramme de
lettres et de cartes postales et a
50 centimes par kilogramme d’autres
objets, pour les echanges effectues
sur un parcours excedant 300 milles
marins, entre pays d’Europe, entre
1’Europe et les ports d’Afrique et
d’Asie sur la Mediterranee et la
mer Noire ou de 1’un a 1’autre
de ces ports, et entre 1’Europe et
PAmerique du Nord. Les memes
prix sont applicables aux transports
assures dans tout le ressort de
P Union entre deux ports d’un meme
Etat, ainsi qu’entre les ports de
deux Etats desservis par la meme
ligne de paquebots lorsque le trajet
maritime n’excede pas 1,500 milles
marins;
(c) a 8 francs par kilogramme
de lettres et de cartes postales
et a 1 franc par kilogramme d’autres
objets, pour tous les transports ne
rentrant pas dans les categories
enoncees aux alineas (a) et (b) ci-
dessus.
En cas de transport maritime effectue
par deux ou plusieurs Administrations,
les frais du parcours total ne peuvent pas
depasser 8 francs par kilogramme de
lettres et de cartes postales et 1 franc
par kilogramme d’autres objets; ces
frais sont, le cas echeant, repartis entre
les Administrations participant au trans
port, au pro rata des distances parcourues,
sans prejudice des arrangements differents
qui peuvent intervenir entre les parties
interessees.
4. L’entrepot, dans un port, de de
peches closes apportees par un paquebot
et destinees a etre reprises par un autre
paquebot, donne lieu au payement d’une
remuneration fixee a 50 centimes par
sac au profit de 1’Office des postes du
lieu d’entrepot, pourvu que cet Office
ne re 5 oive pas de payement pour un
service de transit territorial ou maritime.
Toutefois, le simple transbordement de
paquebot a paquebot ne donne lieu a
aucun payement.
5. Les correspondances echangees a
decouvert entre deux Administrations
de 1’Union sont soumises, par article
and 20 centimes per kilogramme of
other articles, if the distance tra
versed does not exceed 300 nautical
miles. Sea conveyance over a
distance not exceeding 300 nautical
miles is, however, gratuitous if the
Administration concerned already
receives, on account of the mails
conveyed, the remuneration applic
able to territorial transit;
(b) 4 francs per kilogramme of
letters and postcards and 50 cen
times per kilogramme of other
articles, exchanged over a distance
exceeding 300 nautical miles
between European countries,
between Europe and ports of Africa
and Asia on the Mediterranean and
the Black Sea, or between one of
these ports and another, and be
tween Europe and North America.
The same rates are applicable to
conveyance anywhere within the
Union, between two ports of a
single State, as well as between the
ports of two States served by the
same line of Packets when the sea
transit involved does not exceed
1,500 nautical miles;
(c) 8 francs per kilogramme of
letters and postcards and 1 franc
per kilogramme of other articles,
for all transits not included in the
categories given above in para
graphs (a) and (b).
In the case of sea conveyance per
formed by two or more Administrations,
the charges paid for the entire transit
may not exceed 8 francs per kilogramme
of letters and postcards, and 1 franc per
kilogramme of other articles; these
charges are, when occasion arises, shared
between the Administrations parti
cipating in the service, in proportion to
the distances traversed, without prejudice
to any other arrangement which may be
made between the parties interested.
4. For the warehousing in a port of
closed mails, brought by one Packet and
intended to be taken on by another, a
fixed payment of 50 centimes per bag is
made to the Post Office of the place
where the mails are warehoused, provided
that that Office does not receive payment
for a land or sea transit. Simple trans
shipment, however, from Packet to Packet
does not give rise to any payment.
5. Correspondence exchanged d de
couvert between two Administrations of
the Union is subject to the following

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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.

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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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