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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [‎182r] (368/456)

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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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DETAILED REGULATIONS.
45
surplus en conformite du Reglement
d’execution de FArrangement concernant
le service des mandats de poste. II doit
etre fait mention, sur le coupon du mandat,
du nom et de Fadresse du destinataire de
Fenvoi contre remboursement, ainsi que
du lieu et de la date du depot de cet
envoi.
5. Sauf arrangement contraire, les
envois greves de remboursement peuvent
etre reexpedies d’un des pays participant
a ce service sur un autre de ces pays.
En cas de reexpedition, Fenvoi conserve
intacte la demande de remboursement
originale, telle que Fexpediteur lui-meme
Fa formulee. L’Office de la destination
definitive doit seul proceder a la con
version dans sa monnaie du montant du
remboursement, d’apres le taux en vigueur
pour les mandats de poste dans le cas oil
il n’aurait pas le meme systeme monetaire
que celui dans lequel le remboursement
est exprime; il lui appartient aussi de
transformer le remboursement en un
mandat sur le pays d’origine.
XVI.
Cartes postales.
1. Les cartes postales doivent porter,
en tete du recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. , le titre “ Carte postale ”
en frangais ou Fequivalent de ce titre
dans une autre langue. Toutefois, ce
titre n’est pas obligatoire pour les cartes
postales simples emanant de Findustrie
privee.
Les dimensions des cartes ne peuvent
depasser 14 centimetres en longueur et 9
centimetres en largeur, ni etre inferieures
a 10 centimetres en longueur et a 7 centi
metres en largeur. Les cartes postales
doivent etre expediees a decouvert, c’est-
a-dire sans bande ni enveloppe.
Les cartes postales doivent etre con-
fectionnees en carton ou en papier assez
consistant pour ne pas entraver la manipu
lation.
2. Les timbres d’affranchissement doi
vent, autant que possible, etre appliques
a Fangle droit superieur du recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. .
L’adresse du destinataire ainsi que les
mentions relatives au service (recom-
mande, avis de reception, etc.) doivent
figurer egalement au recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. , dont la moitie
droite au moins est reservee a ces indica
tions. L’expediteur dispose du verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. et
de la partie gauche du recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. , sous reserve
des dispositions du paragraphe suivant.
3. A Fexception des timbres d’affran
chissement, il est interdit au public de
joindre ou d’attacher aux cartes postales
des objets quelconques. Toutefois, le nom
out for the amount of the surplus in
accordance with the detailed regulations
for the execution of the money order
agreement. On the counterfoil of the
order the name and address of the
addressee of the article marked with a
trade charge must be entered, as well as
the date and place of posting of the
article.
5. In the absence of any arrangement
to the contrary articles marked with trade
charges may be redirected from one of the
countries participating in this service to
another of those countries. In case of re
direction, the sender’s marking of the
trade charge is preserved intact. Upon
the Office of final destination alone de
volves the conversion into its currency of
the amount of the trade charges, in ac
cordance with the rate of exchange in
force for money orders, in cases where its
monetary system is not that in which the
trade charges are expressed; it also
devolves upon that Office to draw a money
order for the amount of the trade charges
on the country of origin.
XVI.
Post Cards.
1. Post cards must bear on the face
the heading “ Carte postale ” in French,
or the equivalent of this heading in
another language. This heading is, how
ever, not obligator} 7- for single post cards
emanating from private industry.
The dimensions of the cards may not
exceed 14 centimetres in length and
9 centimetres in width, nor be less than
10 centimetres in length and 7 centimetres
in width. Post cards must be sent unen
closed, that is to say, without wrapper or
envelope.
Post cards must be manufactured of
cardboard or of paper of such consistency
as not to hinder manipulation.
2. The postage stamps must, as far as
possible, be affixed to the upper right-
hand corner of the face. The address of
the recipient as well as indications relat
ing to the postal service (registered, advice
of delivery, &c.) must likewise appear on
the face, of which the right hand half at
least is reserved for these indications.
The sender may dispose of the back and
of the left hand half of the face, subject
to the stipulations of the following para
graph.
3. With the exception of stamps for
prepayment the public is forbidden to join
or attach to post cards any objects what
ever. Nevertheless, the name and address

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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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