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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [‎173v] (351/456)

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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.
le transit territorial on maritime
des correspondances echangees par
la voie du chemin de fer japonais
en Chine (Mandchourie) et on ce
qni concerne la non-admission du
transit a decouvert.
VII.
Le Salvador, qni fait partie de 1’Union
postale, ne s’etant pas fait representer an
Congres, le Protocole lui reste on vert
pour adherer aux Conventions qui y out
ete conclues, ou seulement a rime on a
1’autre d’entre elles.
II reste aussi ouvert dans le memo
hut:
a. An Nicaragua et an Perou dont les
delegues an Congres n’etaient pas
munis de pleins pouvoirs ;
b. A la Republique Dominicaine, dont
le delegue a du s’ahsenter an
moment de la signature des actes.
Le Protocole reste egalement ouvert en
faveur de PEmpire de Chine et de PEmpire
de PEthiopie dont les delegues au Con
gres ont declare Fintention de ces pays
d’entrer dans FUnion postale universelle
a partir d’une date a fixer ulterieurement.
VIII.
Ij 6 Protocole demeure ouvert en faveur
des pays dont les representants n’ont
signe aujourd’hui que la Convention
principale, ou un certain nombre settlement
des Conventions arretees par le Congres,
a Feffet de leur permettre d’adherer aux
autres Conventions signees ce jour, ou a
Fune ou Fautre d’entre elles.
IX.
Les adhesions prevues a Particle VII
ci-dessus devront etre notifiees au Gouver-
nement de FItalie par les Gouvernements
respectifs, en la forme diplomatique. Le
delai qui leur est accorde pour cette
notification expirera le.l er juillet 1907.
X.
Dans le cas oil une ou plusieurs des
parties contractantes aux Conventions
postales signees aujourd’hui a Rome ne
ratifieraient pas Fune ou Fautre de ces
Conventions, cette Convention n’en sera
pas moins valable pour les Etats qui
Fauront ratifiee.
En foi de quoi les plenipotentiaires
ci-dessous ont dresse le present Protocole
final, qui aura la meme force et la meme
valeur quo si ses dispositions etaient
sea transit of correspondence ex
changed by way of the Japanese
railway in China (Manchuria) and
so far as concerns the inadmissi
bility of transit d decouvert.
VII.
Salvador, which forms part of the
Postal Union, not having been represented
at the Congress, the Protocol remains open
to it in order that it may adhere to the
Conventions which have been concluded
there or only to one or other of them.
It remains open with the same
object:
a. To Nicaragua and to Peru, whose
delegates at the Congress were
not furnished with full powers ;
b. To the Dominican Republic, whose
delegate was obliged to be absent
when the Acts were signed.
The Protocol likewise remains open to
the Chinese Empire and the Empire of
Ethiopia, whose delegates to the Congress
have announced the intention of those
countries to enter the Universal Postal
Union on a date to be fixed hereafter.
VIII.
The Protocol remains open to those
countries whose representatives have to
day signed only the principal Convention,
or only a certain number of the Conventions
settled by the Congress, in order to admit
of their adherence to the other Conventions
signed this day, or to one or other of
them.
IX.
The adhesions contemplated in the
foregoing Article VII. must be notified to
the Government of Italy by the respective
Governments in diplomatic form. The
term accorded to them for that notification
will expire on the 1st of July 1907.
X.
In the event of one or more of the
contracting parties to tbe Postal Con
ventions signed to-day at Rome not ratify
ing one or other of those Conventions,
this Convention shall be none the less
valid for the States which shall have
ratified it.
In faith of which the undermentioned
plenipotentiaries have drawn up the
present final Protocol, which shall have
the same force and validity as if its

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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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