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File 1912/897 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf. British post offices [also in Turkish Arabia]’ [‎189r] (382/462)

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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shown that considerable inconvenience is caused both to the public and. to the
Department by branch offices conducted by frequently changing and conse
quently non-expert officials. I may add that a Post office at Hanjam would be a
y-. great convenience to the Navy, and would afford additional postal facilities to
^ Lingah, which at present only gets a fortnightly call both ways. It would also
be of great use should we at any time decide upon overt action on Masandum.
The necessary accommodation could be provided in connection with the erection
of a wireless installation, at a small extra cost.
13. Bandar Ahb as. —The Post office at Bandar Abbas was opened, con
currently with that at Lingah, on April 1st 1867, at the earnest request of the
mercantile community and of the Persian Governor: it was from the first a great
success from every point of view and as already mentioned, was an office of
exchange for mails to and from Hanjam until the beginning of this year. The
British Post office at Bandar Abbas was not until recently housed in the British
Consulate, which was only established in 1901 but in a separate building. Bandar
Abbas is at present a combined Post and Telegraph office, the postmaster drawing
a special allowance for transacting telegraphic business over the Bandar Abbas-
Hanjam cable, a most convenient and economical arrangement.
1 have no suggestions to make with regard to this office which is likely, as
railway development proceeds, to attain considerable importance.
14. Jask. —A regular post office was established in the British concession here
in 1880, in supersession of previously existing informal postal arrangements. The
attached note by the Superintendent of Post
Enclosure I. Offices shows clearly the disadvantages,
from the departmental point of view, of the present system under which Jask is
provided with a branch office under Karachi, and I trust that the departmental
authorities concerned will give favourable consideration to the replacement of the
present branch office by a departmental sub-office; the necessary buildings, need
not be expensive, if erected departmentally. It is impossible to foresee when
circumstances may permit the withdrawal of our troops, from Jask, and the
Government of India will 1 trust concur with me in considering it desirable to
make our postal arrangements at Jask as efficient as possible.
I would venture also to enquire, whether, having regard to the conditions
under which we occupy our enclave at
vide page 96, Aitchuon, Volume xn, 4 th Edition. j as k an ^ w hi c h have since tended to inure
in our favour owing to the continued presence of British troops there, in semi
permanent quarters, we should not be justified in charging Indian inland rates
as suggested above for Hanjam. Jcisk may possibly attain greater importance
in the future than in the past, and we cannot afford to lose any opportunity of
emphasizing and strengthening the special position we enjoy there: 1 need only
refer to the correspondence which passed in 1900 regarding the creation of an
International Sanitary Station at Jask as an example of a political development
which we cannot wholly exclude from consideration.
15. Charbar. —Charbar is a station on the Indo-European Telegraph Depart
ment’s land line between Karachi and Bushire, in charge of a First Class General
Service Clerk, who draws Rs. 5 ° fro m the Political Department of the Govern
ment of India in addition to his pay. There has been a detachment of Indian
Infantry there for some years in connection with the Arms Traffic.
There is at present no British Post office at Charbar though^ it has
since 1911 a port of call for our mail steamers, but in 1910a Persian Post office
was re-opened there (it had been established apparently in 1902 but closed soon
afterwards) and Persian mail bags are now conveyed between Charbar and other
Gulf ports by our mail steamers, under arrangements made and paid for by the
Government of India.
It seems to me that in giving Charbar a regular mail service whilst omitting
to establish a post office there, we are not making the most of the favourable

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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:

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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