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File 897/1912 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [152v] (309/684)
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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20
Toutefois, les matieres explosibles,
inflammables on dangereuses et les objets
obscenes ou immoraux ne sent pas ren-
voyes au timbre d’origine; ils sent
detruits sur place par les soins de FAdmi
nistration qui en constate la presence.
4. Est d’ailleurs reserve le droit du
Gouvernement de tout pays de I’Union de
ne pas elfectuer, sur son territoire, le
transport ou la distribution, tant des
objets jouissant de la moderation de taxe
a I’egard desquels il n’a pas ete satisfait
aux lois, ordonnances ou decrets qui
reglent les conditions de leur publication
ou de leur circulation dans ce pays, que
des correspondances de toute nature qui
portent ostensiblement des inscriptions,
dessins, etc., interdits par les dispositions
legales ou reglementaires en vigueur dans
le meme pays.
5. Les hautes parties contractantes
s’engagent a prendre ou a proposer a
leurs pouvoirs legislates les mesures neces-
saires pour empecher et, le cas echeant,
punir 1’insertion, dans les envois enumeres
1 article 2 de la presente Convention,
d opium, de morphine, de cocaine et
autres stupefiants.
Explosive, inflammable, or dangerous
substances, and obscene or immoral
articles, however, are not returned to the
country of origin; they are destroyed
on the spot under the direction of the
Administration which has found them. ^
4. The right is, moreover, reserved to
the Government of every country of the
Union to refuse to convey over its
territory, or to deliver, articles admitted
at reduced rates in regard to which the
laws, ordinances, or decrees which regu
late the conditions of their publication or
circulation in that country have not been
complied with, or correspondence of any
kind bearing conspicuously inscriptions,
designs, &c., forbidden ty the legal
enactments or regulations in force in the
same country.
5. The high contracting parties under
take to adopt or to propose to their legisla
tures the measures necessary for pre
venting and, if necessary, for punishing
the insertion of opium, morphine, cocaine,
and other narcotics in the postal packets
specified in Article 2 of the present Con
vention.
Article 19.
Relations avec les pays etrangers a V Union.
1. Les Offices de F Union qui ont des
relations avec des pays situes en dehors de
F Union, doivent preter leur concours a
tous les autres Offices de F Union :
1 J pour la transmission, par leur
intermediaire, soit a decouvert, soit
en depeches closes, si ce mode de
transmission est admis d’un com-
mun accord par les Offices d’origine
et de destination des depeches, des
correspondances a destination ou
provenant des pays en dehors de
FUnion;
2° pour Fechange des corres
pondances, soit a decouvert, soit en
depeches closes, a travers les terri-
toires ou par Fintermediaire de
services dependant desdits pays en
dehors de FUnion;
3° pour que les correspondances
soient soumises en dehors de FUnion,
comme dans le ressort de FUnion,
aux frais de transit determines par
F article 4.
2. Les frais totaux de transit mari
time dans 1 Union et en dehors de FUnion
ne peuvent pas exceder 15 francs par
kilogramme de lettres et de cartes postales
et 1 franc par kilogramme d’autres objets.
Le cas echeant, ces frais sont repartis au
Article 19.
Relations with Countries outside the
U nion.
1. Offices of the Union which have
relations with countries situate outside
the Union are to lend their assistance to
all the other Offices of the Union :
1 For the transmission, by their
services, either d decouvert or in
closed mails, if this method of
transmission is admitted by
mutual consent between the
Offices of origin and destination
of the mails, of correspondence
addressed to or originating in
countries outside the Union ;
2° For the exchange of corre
spondence either a decouvert or in
closed mails across the territories
or by means of services maintained
by the said countries outside the
Union;
3° That the correspondence con
veyed may be subject outside the
Union, as within the Union, to the
transit charges fixed by Article 4.
2. The total charges for the sea
transit, within and without the Union,
may not exceed 15 francs per kilogramme
of letters and postcards and 1 franc per
kilogramme of other articles. If occasion
arise these charges are divided, in the
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
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- 143r:158v
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