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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [‎167v] (339/456)

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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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UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION.
(b) des matieres explosibles, in
flammables on dangereuses;
des animaux et insectes,
vivants ou morts, sauf les ex
ceptions mentionnees an Re-
glement d’execution prevn a
1’article 20 de la Convention;
2° d'inserer dans les correspondances
ordinaires ou recommandees
consignees a la poste :
(а) des pieces de monnaie ;
(б) des objets passibles de
droits de douane ;
(c) des matieres d’or ou d’ar-
gent, des pierreries, des
bijoux et autres objets pre-
cieux, mais seulement dans
le cas ou leur insertion
ou expedition serait defen-
due d’apres la legislation
des pays interesses;
(d) des objets quelconques
dont Fentree ou la circula
tion sont interdites dans le
pays de destination.
4. Les envois tombant sous les pro
hibitions du paragraphe 3 qui precede et
qui auraient ete a tort admis a Fexpedition
doivent etre renvoyes an timbre d’origine,
sauf le cas oil FAdministration du pays
de destination serait autorisee, par sa le
gislation ou par ses reglements interieurs,
a en disposer autrement.
Toutefois, les matieres explosibles,
inflammables ou dangereuses ne sont pas
renvoyees an timbre d’origine; elles sont
detruites sur place par les soins de
FAdininistration qui en constate la
presence.
5. Est d’ailleurs reserve le droit du
Gouvernement de tout pays de F Union de
ne pas effectuer, sur son territoire, le
transport ou la distribution, tant des
objets jouissant de la moderation de taxe
a Fegard desquels il n’a pas ete satisfait
aux lois, ordonnances ou decrets qui
reglent les conditions de leur publication
ou de leur circulation dans ce pays, que
des correspondances de toute nature qui
portent ostensiblement des inscriptions,
dessins, etc., interdits par les dispositions
legales ou reglementaires en vigueur dans
le meme pays.
ARTICLE 17.
Relations avec les pays etrangers d VUnion.
1. Les Offices de F Union qui ont des
relations avec des pays situes en dehors de
FUnion, doivent preter leur concours a
tous les autres Offices de FUnion :
1° pour fa transmission, par leur inter-
mediaire, soit a decouvert, soit en
(b) Explosive, inflammable, or
dangerous substances; ani
mals and insects, living or
dead, except in the cases
provided for in the Detailed
Regulations contemplated in
Article 20 of the Convention ; ^
2" To insert in ordinary or registered
correspondence, consigned to
the post:
(а) Coin;
(б) Articles liable to Customs
duty;
(c) Articles of gold and silver,
precious stones, jewellery
and other precious articles,
but only where their inser
tion or transmission is for
bidden by the legislation of
the countries concerned ;
(d) Any articles whatsoever
of which the importation or
circulation are prohibited
in the country of destination.
4. Packets falling under the prohibi
tions of the foregoing paragraph 3, which
have been erroneously admitted to trans
mission, should be returned to the Post
Office of origin, except in cases where the
Administration of the country of destination
is authorised by its laws or by its internal
regulations to dispose of them otherwise.
Explosive, inflammable, or dangerous
substances, however, are not returned to
the country of origin; they are destroyed
on the spot under the direction of the
Administration which has detected their
presence.
5. The right is, moreover, reserved to
the Government of every country of the
Union to refuse to convey over its territory,
or to deliver, articles passing at reduced
rates in regard to which the laws, ordin
ances, or decrees which regulate the con
ditions of their publication or circulation
in that country have not been complied
with, or correspondence of any kind
bearing ostensibly inscriptions, designs,
&c., forbidden by the legal enactments
or regulations in force in the same
country.
ARTICLE 17.
Relations with Countries outside the
Union.
1. Offices of the Union which have
relations with countries situate outside
the Union are to lend their assistance to
all the other Offices of the Union :
1° For the transmission, by their
services, either, a decouvert or in

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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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