File 1912/897 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf. British post offices [also in Turkish Arabia]’ [189v] (383/462)
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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position in which we are placed in regard to these small ports by the existence
of a British telegraph station and a British mail service. I would propose
therefore that a branch post office be quietly established at Charbar, the Tele
graph clerk in charge being provided with the necessary stamps, etc., and being
given an allowance as is done at Jask.
It would not seem necessary to inform the Persian Government as no
intimation was given in the case of the Jask Post officej which is also managed by
Telegraph officials.
The establishment of a branch post office would render obsolete the present
primitive departmental arrangement under which mails for Charbar are landed at
Gwadur and carried to Charbar by Telegraph linemen.
In the not very likely event of any protest being raised by the Persian
Government it could be explained that a British Post office is a necessary
corollary of a regular mail service and that objection on their part to the post
office will entail stoppage of the mail service. I do not, however, anticipate any
serious local objection, and would add that the establishment of a branch post
office at Charbar will be greatly appreciated by the thriving colony of British
traders at that port, which, it must be remembered, has the making of a fine
harbour and may attain importance in connection with the Trans-Persian Railway
Project.
16. In conclusion, I venture to remind Government that the Persian Postal
Administration, whilst making use of our fast and subsidiary mail service to
carry its own sealed mails between Persian ports in addition to letters posted
anywhere in Persia for places abroad, does not so far as I know pay a penny for
the privilege of doing so, and in the not very probable event of their questioning
our title to initiate our own postal arrangements at Hanjam and Charbar, I
would suggest that this consideration might be brought home to them, if not
by a request to contribute to the mail subsidy, then by an allusion to their good
fortune in being immune from such a contribution.
17. The recommendations which I have ventured to make in the foregoing
paragraphs may be briefly summarized as follows:—
Mohammerah .—Improved accommodation for Post office and Postmaster.
Ahnoaz .—British Post office to be opened.
Bushire .—Superior grade of postmasters and more numerous staff
required.
Lingah .—Money order commission to be reduced to 1 per cent as at
other Gulf offices.
Hanjam —Post office to be established; Indian inland rates to be
charged.
Jask. —Present branch office to be converted to sub-office.
Charbar. —Branch post office to be established.
18. In a subsequent communication I will endeavour in the same way to
summarize the present position and make suggestions with regard to other post
offices in the sphere of this
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
, outside Persia.
I am sending a copy of this letter to His Majesty’s Minister,
Enclosure 1.
Note.
Jask Post Office.
There is a branch post office at Jask which is managed by one of the clerks
of the Indo-European Telegraph Department. The Post office is accommo
dated in one of the Telegraph buildings. An allowance of Rs. 30 per mensem
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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)
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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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