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File 897/1912 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [148r] (300/684)
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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taxe ordinaire des mandats calculee sur
le montant du reliquat.
Les mandats de remboursement, qui
n’ont pas ete payes aux beneficiaires
pour un motif quelconque ne sont pas
^15 rembourses a T Office d’emission, et le
montant en revient definitivement a
F Administration du pays expediteur des
envois greves de remboursement, apres
1’expiration du delai legal de prescription.
A tons les autres egards les mandats
de remboursement sont soumis aux dis
positions fixees par FArrangement con-
cernant le service des mandats de poste.
3. La perte d’un envoi recommande
greve de remboursement engage la re-
sponsabilite du service postal envers
Fexpediteur dans les conditions deter-
minees par F article 10 ci-apres pour les
envois recommandes.
4. Les sommes encaissees reguliere-
ment du destinataire, deduction faite de
la taxe du mandat et du droit d’encaisse-
ment, sont garanties a Fexpediteur dans
les conditions determinees par FArrange
ment concernant le service des mandats
de poste pour les sommes converties en
mandats de poste, sauf dans le cas preyu
au 2 e alinea du § 1 de Farticle 10 ci-apres.
5. Si Fenvoi a ete livre au destinataire
sans encaissement du montant diy rem-
boursement, Fexpediteur a droit a une
indemnite, a moins que le non-encaisse-
ment ne soit du a une faute ou une
negligence de sa part. L indemnite ne
pourra depasser, dans aucun cas, 1c mon
tant du remboursement. 11 en est de
meme si la somme encaissee du destina
taire est inferieure au montant du rem
boursement indique. Par le fait du
payement de Findemnite, 1 Administra
tion est subrogee dans les droits de
Fexpediteur pour tout recours eventuel
contre le destinataire ou les tiers.
La responsabilite incombe a F Office du
pays de destination, a moins que celui-ci
ne puisse prouver que le non-encaisse-
ment du remboursement ou F encaisse
ment d’une somme inferieure est du a la
non-observation d’une disposition regle-
mentaire par F Office du pays d origine.
6. Pour les envois greves de rem
boursement dont le montant encaisse
regulierement du destinataire n a pas ete
transmis a Fexpediteur, 1 Office d origine
est autorise a payer ce montant a 1 ay ant
droit au plus tard dans le delai d un
an a partir du jour qui suit celui de la
reclamation. Ce paiement a lieu pour le
compte de FOffice destinataire, L in
ordinary rate chargeable for money orders
calculated on the amount of the balance.
Trade charge money orders which
have not been paid to the payees for
any reason whatever are not repaid to
the office of issue, and their amount
accrues definitely to the Administration
of the country from which the articles
marked with the trade charge were sent,
after the expiry of the legal period of
validity.
In all other respects, trade charge
money orders are subject to the provisions
of the Agreement concerning the Money
Order service
3. For the loss of a registered article
marked with a trade charge the respoUsi-
bility of the postal service towards the
sender is fixed under the conditions
settled by Article 10 hereafter for regis
tered articles.
4. The sums duly collected from the
addressee, after deduction of the charge
for the money order and the collection
fee, are guaranteeed to the sender under
the conditions laid down by the Agree
ment concerning the Money Order service
for sums converted into money orders,
except in the case provided for in the
second paragraph of § 1 of Article 10
below.
5. If the article has been delivered
to the addressee without the collection
of the trade charge, the sender is entitled
to compensation, unless the failure to
collect the charge is due to fault or
negligence on his part. Fhe compensa
tion may not, in any case, exceed the
amount of the trade charge. The same
rule applies if the amount collected from
the addressee is less than the amount of
the trade charge indicated. By paying
compensation the Administration takes
over the rights of the sender in any
action which may be taken against the
addressee or third parties.
The responsibility rests with the Office
of the country of destination, unless the
latter can prove that the failure to collect
the trade charge or the collection of a
smaller sum is due to a breach of the
regulations by the Office of the country
of origin.
6. As regards articles marked with
trade charges of which the amount has
been duly collected from the addressee
but not forwarded to the sender, the
Office of origin is authorised to pay this
amount to the proper person within a
year at latest from the day following
the date of application. This payment
is made on behalf of the Office of destina-
B 2
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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.
- 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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