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File 1912/897 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf. British post offices [also in Turkish Arabia]’ [188r] (380/462)
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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documentary recognition, as a permapency, of such ancient and prescriptive
postal rights and privileges as are still left to us, and if possible an expression of
readiness to see the same rights applied to other Persian ports of the bull as
occasion may require, should be sought from the Persian Government.
The Government of India expressed at the time the view that" this matter
was not urgent and might stand over, and considered that without the concur
rence of the Russian Government such undertakings would not be possible.
7. I would however, with the highest respect, venture to hope that it may
vet be considered possible to claim that this service, which affects the littoral of
the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
only, is, like quarantine, one of our special interests m the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, the existence of which the Russian Government ‘ did not deny
in 1907, and that we are therefore entitled to treat it as one between the Persian
Government and ourselves.
8. 1 now beg to indicate the various places where we have ^ post offices or
where it would seem that we might usefully graft them on to existing telegraph
establishments.
Mohammerah .—A post office was formally opened here on loth July 1892,
shortly after the creation of the British Vice-Consulate: it is located in the Con-
S y d ... d -, d sulate building. The express consent of
to Minister, «el.g,.m No. 7 t, 3 ^ ^ ^ estabUshment .
Minister to Resident, inM 3rd ]«"« '890. and ; n this respect it appears to be unique
E F dSVd C Jnne m ,8 n 9 i.° ' ' amongst the post offices in the Gulf, and
indeed with the doubtful exception of Jask, it is the only British Post office
in Persia that was not in existence many years before Persia commenced to
maintain her own postal service. Pending the provision of suitable accommoda-
f .. . , , „ . tion in the British Vice-Consulate, the
Enclosure to Legation despatch dated September . • , 0
26th, 1891, to Resident. Persian Government issued orders f r
room to be set apart for the post office in the Persian Telegraph Office.
The fact that, in this instance, the Persian Government accorded specific
^ . P , No 8 daled 6th sanction to the establishment of the post
M : r ch“ ' ' Office, though* there was already a Persian
Post office in existence is of some importance and may serve as a precedent for
any subsequent request for postal facilities that it may be necessary to make to
the Persian Government.
The accommodation at present available for the post office and the Post-
mastpr has been the subject of constant complaint of recent years and some
better arrangement is imperatively demanded, Mohammerah being one of the
bus e t officfs in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
and serving a larger European and Indian
population than any other British Post office in Persia except Bushire.
I hope to submit proposals in this connection for the favourable considera-
tion of Government during the next few weeks.
o Ahviaz —Ahwaz is at present unprovided with a British Post office,
tinued ever since. .
,1 wouid be convenient both with a view to faciiitating °-commerce ^ in
order to emphasize the position of A . s ! t hink P little doubt that it
a^S^at who
u , h d
GulUnd is in conse'quence charged with a good deal of accounts work over and
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:4v, 6r:7v, 9r:74v, 77r:84v, 87r:127v, 130r:148v, 149v:162v, 163v:170v, 173r:173v, 177r:205v, 210r:210v, 213r:214v, 216r:226v, 228r:228v, back-i
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