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File 897/1912 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [‎153r] (310/684)

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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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prorata des distances, entre les Offices
intervenant dans le transport.
3. Les frais de transit, territorial on
maritime, en dehors des limites de
1’Union comme dans le ressort de I’Union,
^des correspondances auxquelles s’applique
le present article, sont constates dans la
meme forme que les frais de transit
afferents aux correspondances echangees
entre pays de 1’Union an moyen des
services d’autres pays de 1 Union.
4. Les frais de transit des corres
pondances a destination des pays en
dehors de 1’Union postale sont a la charge
de TOffice du pays d’origine, qui fixe les
taxes d’affranchissement dans son service
desdites correspondances, sans que ces
taxes puissent etre inferieures an tarif
normal de FUnion.
5. Les frais de transit des correspon
dances originaires des pays en dehors de
FUnion ne sont pas a la charge de F Office
du pays de destination. Get Office dis-
tribue sans taxe les correspondances qui
lui sont livrees comme completement
affranchies; il taxe les correspondances
non on insuffisamment affranchies selon
la regie applicable dans son propre service
aux envois similaires a destination du
pays d’ou proviennent lesdites corres
pondances.
6. A Fegard de la responsabilite cn
matiere d’objets recommandes, les corre
spondances sont traitees :
pour le transport dans le ressort
de FUnion, d’apres les stipula
tions de la presente Convention;
pour le transport en dehors des
limites de FUnion, d apres les
conditions notifiees par 1 Office de
FUnion qui sert d’intermediaire.
Article 20.
Empreintes et timbres-poste
cow trefaits.
Les hautes parties contractantes s'en-
gagent a prendre, ou a proposer a leurs
pouvoirs legislatifs respectifs, les mesures
necessaires pour punir 1 emploi fiaudu-
leux, pour Faffranchissement de corre
spondances, de timbres-poste contrefaits
ou ayant deja servi ainsi que d em
preintes contrefaites ou ayant deja servi
de machines a affranchir. Liles s engagent
egalement a prendre, ou a proposer a
leurs legislatures respectives, les mesures
necessaires pour interdire et reprimer les
operations frauduleuses de fabrication^
vente, colportage ou distribution de \i-
ratio of distances, between the Offices
taking part in the conveyance.
3. The charges for transit, by land or
sea, without as well as within the limits
of the Union, on the correspondence to
which the present Article applies are
established in the same manner as the
transit charges relating to correspondence
exchanged between Union countries by
means of the services of other countries
of the Union.
4. The transit charges on corres
pondence for countries outside the Postal
Union are payable by the Office of the
country of origin, which fixes the postage
rates in its services for the said
correspondence, but these rates may not
be lower than the normal Union tariff.
5. The transit charges on correspond
ence originating in countries outside the
Union are not payable by the Office of
the country of destination. That Office
delivers without charge correspondence
transmitted to it as fully prepaid; it
charges unpaid or insufficiently prepaid
correspondence according to the rules
applicable in its own service to similar
articles addressed to the country where
the said correspondence originates.
6. With regard to responsibility in
the matter of registered articles, corres
pondence is treated :
For transmission within the
limits of the Union, in accordance
with the provisions of the present
Convention;
For transmission outside the
limits of the Union, in accordance
with the conditions notified by the
Office of the Union which serves
as the intermediate Office.
Article 20.
Counterfeit Impressions and Postage
Stamps.
The high contracting parties under
take to adopt, or to propose to their
respective legislatures, the necessary
measures for punishing the fraudulent
use, for the prepayment of correspond
ence, of counterfeit postage stamps or
stamps already used, as well as of counter
feit impressions of stamping machines or
of impressions already used. They also
undertake to adopt or to propose to their
respective legislatures, the necessary
measuresfor prohibiting and repressingthe
fraudulent manufacture, sale, haw king,
or distribution of impressed and adhesive

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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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