File 1912/897 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf. British post offices [also in Turkish Arabia]’ [179r] (362/462)
The record is made up of 1 volume (227 folios). It was created in 1911-1914. 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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“ Steamers stop for mails weekly at Fao Telegraph Station in the Basrah
river. ”
In conclusion, I may mention that it appears to have been the custom for
many years to make up postal bags for Fao from Basrah, Mohammerah and
other ports, whenever occasion offers, and I am informed that the Turkish
officials at Fao have frequently availed themselves of the postal facilities afforded
by the present system.
9. Briefly summarized, the proposals that I have ventured to submit above
are as follows :—
Gwadur
... Nil.
Maskat...
• ••
• ••
• ••
• • •
... Nil.
Bahrain .—Reduction of rate of money order commission to 1 per cent.
Dehai .—Under consideration in separate connection.
Kuwait .—Already under consideration of Government. Application of
Indian inland rates and Imperial penny postage scheme advocated.
no Grant of local allowance.
Fao.— \ (2) Provision of postal paraphernalia.
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^(3) Inclusion of station in list of post offices.
Respectfully committing the foregoing suggestions to the wise consideration
of the Government of India.
Note.
Post office arrangements at Fao.
There is no post office at Fao. For some years past, however, mails bags
are closed for Fao by offices in the Gulf. These bags contain unregistered
articles of the letter mail. Registered articles and parcels are also received but
these are sent through the post office at Bushire which collects fees due, etc.,
before sending them on. In the same way registered letters and parcels are sent
to Bushire by Fao where they are receipted, entered up, etc., as if posted in
Bushire. This arrangement is intended purely in the interest of the telegraph
staff at Fao,—but l understand even non-British subjects take advantage of it
and receive letters, etc., in the bags made up for the telegraph staff.
Some short while ago the officer in charge put in for an allowance for
doing post office work. It came through the Director, Telegraphs, and Post
master-General. I pointed out—
(1) that there w T as no British post office at Fao,
(2) that the work done was purely in the interest of the telegraph staff,
(3) that non-British subjects, *.<?., others than the telegraph staff should
not benefit by it,
( 4 ) that if an allowance was paid, it would be giving the place the status
of a post office which might give rise to objections by Turkey.
There the matter dropped.
The post office guide contains no mention of Fao or any mail arrangements
that we have for it. It is not supplied with a date stamp or any of the other
paraphernalia intended for a post office. All the arrangements in fact are
purely private.
Sd. A. J. HUGHES.
C88FD— 44-24-2-I3— UCBP Simla
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The volume comprises copies of printed correspondence, typewritten correspondence, handwritten notes and other papers. These papers relate to the operation of British and Turkish post offices in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. (Iraq), and British and Persian post offices in Persia and the ports and towns of the wider Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Zachariah Cox); Foreign Office officials (Secretary, Sir Edward Grey; Assistant Under-Secretary, Sir Louis du Pan Mallet); 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. officials (including Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India, Thomas William Holderness).
The volume covers the following subjects:
- communications between British and Turkish Government officials over a Turkish Government proposal to abolish foreign (including British) post offices in Ottoman territory, including: British acceptance of the proposal, with caveats, Turkish demands for the closure of foreign post offices on 1 October 1914 (f 5, f 8), arrangements for the closure of British post offices, including those at Basra and Baghdad, discussion between British Government and Government of India officials over proposed future arrangements for the transmission of mail from between India and Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. ;
- British Government correspondence relating to the Turkish Government’s plans to introduce its own mail system between Baghdad/Basra and India;
- the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf’s outline of the history of the British postal system in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and his proposals for improvements, which include the opening of new branches at Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], Charbar [Chābahār] and Ahwaz [Ahvāz], a change of hours to the post office at Bushire, and changes to the service at Fao [Al-Fāw]) as a means of countering the Persian Government expansion of postal operations in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (ff 187-190, ff 178-179), and the Persian Government’s subsequent protestations at the opening of British post office concessions at Henjam and Charbar;
- attempts by the Persian Government, under the direction of its Belgian Director-General of Post (Camille Molitor), to open post offices within the concessionary areas operated by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) at Abadan, and within Britain’s own post office concession at Henjam.
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 (227 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.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 229; 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.
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