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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [166r] (336/456)
The record is made up of 1 volume (222 folios). It was created in 1914-1919. 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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CONVENTION.
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cet echange et notamment 1’intervention
du Bureau international dans la confection,
rapprovisionnement et la comptabilite
desdits coupons.
3. Les correspondances officielles rela
tives an service postal, ecliangees entre les
Administrations postales, entre ces Ad
ministrations et le Bureau international et
entre les bureaux de poste des pays de
1’Union, sont exemptees de I’afFranciiisse-
ment en timbres-poste ordinaires et sont
admises a la franchise.
4. II en est de meme des correspon
dances concernant les prisonniers de
guerre, expedites on regues, soit directe-
ment, soit a titre d’intermediaire, par les
bureaux de renseignements qui seraient
etablis eventuellement pour ces personnes,
dans des pays belligerants ou dans des pays
neutres ayant recueilli des belligerants sur
leur territoire.
Les correspondances destinees aux
prisonniers de guerre on expediees par
eux sont egalement affranchies de toutes
taxes postales, aussi bien dans les pays
d’origine et de destination que dans les
pays intermediaires.
Les belligerants recueillis et internes
dans un pays neutre sont assimiles aux
prisonniers de guerre proprement dits, en
ce qui concerne 1’application des dispo
sitions ci-dessus.
5. Les correspondances deposees en
pleine mer a la boite d’un paquebot ou
entre les mains des agents des postes
embarques ou des commandants de navires
peuvent etre affranchies an moyen des
timbres-poste et d’apres le tarif du pays
auquel appartient ou dont depend ledit
paquebot. Si le depot a bord a lieu
pendant le stationnement aux deux points
extremes du parcours ou dans Tune des
escales intermediaires, raffranchissement
n’est valable qu’autant qu’il est effectue au
moyen de timbres-poste et d’apres le tarif
du pays dans les eaux duquel se trouve le
paquebot.
ARTICLE 12.
Attribution des taxes.
1. Chaque Administration garde en
entier les sommes qu’elle a pergues en
execution des articles 5, 6, 7, 10 et 11
precedents, sauf la bonification due pour
les mandats prevus au § 2 de 1’article 7
et exception faite en ce qui concerne les
coupons-reponse (art. 11).
2. En consequence, il n’v a pas lieu,
de ce chef, a un deeompte entre les
diverses Administrations de FUnion, sous
les reserves prevues au § 1 du present
article.
the other conditions of this exchange,
and in particular the intervention of the
International Bureau in manufacturing,
supplying, and accounting for the coupons.
3. Oflicial correspondence relative to
the Postal Service exchanged between
Postal Administrations, between these
Administrations and the International
Bureau, and between Post Offices in
Union countries, is exempt from pre
payment by means of ordinary postage
stamps, and is free from liability to charge.
4. The same privilege is accorded to
correspondence concerning prisoners of
war, despatched or received, either directly
or, as intermediary, by the special Informa
tion Offices established on behalf of such
persons, in belligerent countries or in
neutral countries which have received
belligerents on their territories.
Correspondence intended for prisoners
of war or despatched by them is likewise
exempt from all postal charges, not only
in the countries of origin and destination,
but in intermediary countries.
Belligerents received and interned in a
neutral country are assimilated to prisoners
of war, properly so-called in so far as the
application of the above-mentioned stipula
tions is concerned.
5. Correspondence posted on the high |
seas in the letter box on board a Packet I
or placed in the hands of postal agents |
on board or of the commanders of ships |
may be prepaid by means of the postage i
stamps, and according to the tariff of the j
country to which the said Packet belongs I
or by which it is maintained. If the j
posting on board takes place during the
stay at one of the two terminal points of 1
the voyage or at any intermediate port of I
call, prepayment can only be effected by
means of the postage stamps and according
to the tariff of the country in the waters of
which the Packet happens to be.
ARTICLE 12.
Postage kept by collecting country.
1. Each Administration keeps the
whole of the sums which it collects by
virtue of the foregoing Articles 5, 6, 7, 10,
and 11, exceptions being made in the case
of the credit due for the money orders
referred to in paragraph 2 of Article 7,
and also in regard to reply coupons
(Article 11).
2. Consequently, there is no necessity
under this head for any accounts between
the several Administrations of the Union,
subject always to the reservations made in
paragraph 1 of the present Article.
About this item
- Content
The volume comprises copies of printed correspondence, handwritten correspondence, notes and other papers. This relates to the operation of British Indian post offices in Persia, and in particular in the region known as Arabistan [Ahvāz] by British officials. The file is a direct chronological continuation of File 1912/897 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf. British post offices [also 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. ]’ (IOR/L/PS/10/242). Principal correspondents in the volume include: HM Minister in Tehran (Sir Charles Murray Marling); 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 (John Evelyn Shuckburgh; Arthur Hirtzel); the Deputy Chief Political Officer at Basra (Captain Arnold Talbot Wilson); the Chief Political Officer at Basra (Sir Percy Zachariah Cox); and the Officiating 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. (Major Stuart George Knox).
Subjects covered in the volume include:
- a printed copy of the Convention of Rome (dated 26 May 1906), created by the Universal Postal Union, incorporating detailed regulations for its execution, in French and English, printed in 1907 by HM Stationery Office (ff 160-224);
- office notes relating to protests from the Persian Government at the opening of Government of India post offices at Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām] and Charbar [Chābahār], and the anticipated post office at Ahwaz [Ahvāz] (ff 153-159);
- a copy of a letter from Knox to Sir Walter Beaupré Townley, HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at the Court of Persia, dated 21 June 1914, countering complaints made by the Persian Government about British Indian postal service activities in southern Persia, by pointing out the perceived inadequacies in the Persian postal system (ff 130-133);
- complaints made by HM Consul at Kerman (Lieutenant-Colonel David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer), of deficiencies in the existing Persian postal service at Kerman. The Consul emphasises insecurities and delays on routes to Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] and Tehran, the inefficiency of staff, and the importance of the service to Kerman’s European community (ff 135-136, ff 77-78);
- a memorandum written by Wilson to Cox, dated 21 July 1917, giving a detailed account of the prevailing political situation (including Anglo-Persian relations) in Northern Arabistan (ff 41-44);
- the proposal, put forward by Cox in 1916, to open a British Indian post office at the Anglo-Persian Oil Company’s (APOC) concession at Maidan-i-Naphtum [Meydān-e Naftūn]. It provokes much discussion between British officials in the Gulf, Government of India officials, and officials from the 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 the Foreign Office, chiefly relating to the likely response of the Persian authorities to such a move, and whether the move could be justified. A useful précis of the differing opinions of officials involved in making the decision can be found at ff 14-18.
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 (222 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 foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 226; 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. Pagination: an original printed pagination sequence is present between ff 160-224.
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