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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [‎182v] (369/456)

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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.
et 1’adresse du destinataire, aiusi que le
nom et 1’adresse de Fexpediteur peavent
figurer sur des etiquettes collees n’exce-
dant pas 2 centimetres sur 5. II est
dgalement permis d’appliquer sur le verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'.
et sur la partie gauche du recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. , des
vignettes ou des photographies, sur papier
tres mince, a condition qu’elles soient
completement adherentes a la carte.
4. Les cartes postales avec reponse
payee doivent presenter an recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. , en langue
frangaise, comme titre sur la premiere
partie: “ Carte postale avec reponse
payee ; sur la seconde partie, “Carte
postale-reponse. 1 Les deux parties doi
vent d’ailleurs remplir, chacune, les autres
conditions imposees a la carte postale
simple ; elles sont repliees Tune sur 1’autre
et ne pen vent etre fennees d’une maniere
quelcouque.
II est loisible a I’expediteur d’une
carte postale avec reponse payee d’indi-
quer son nom et son adresse an recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. de
la partie “ Reponse,” soit par ecrit, soit en
y collant une etiquette.
L’affranchissement de la partie “ Re
ponse ” au moyen du timbre-poste du pays
qui a emis la carte n’est valable que si les
deux parties de la carte postale avec
reponse payee sont parvenues adherentes
du pays d’origine et si la partie “ Reponse ”
est expediee du pays ou elle est parvenue
par la poste a destination dudit pays
d’origine. Si ces conditions ne sont pas
remplies, elle est traitee comme carte
postale non affranchie.
5. Les cartes postales ne remplissant
pas, quant aux indications prescrites, aux
dimensions, a la forme exterieure, etc., les
conditions imposees par le present article
a cette categoric d’envois, sont traitees
comme lettres.
XVII.
Papiers d’affaires.
1. Sont consideres comme papiers
d’affaires, et admis comme tels a la mode
ration de taxe consacree par Farticle 5 de
la Convention, toutes les pieces et tons les
documents ecrits ou dessines en tout ou
partie a la main, qui n’ont pas le caractere
d’une correspondance actuelle et person-
nelle, tels que les lettres ouvertes et les
cartes postales de date ancienne qui ont
deja atteint leur but primitif, les pieces de
procedure, les actes de tout genre dresses
par les officiers ministeriels, ies lettres de
voiture ou coimaissements, lesfactures, les
differents documents de service des Com-
pagnies d’assurance, les copies ou extraits
d’actes sous seing prive ecrits sur papier
timbre ou non timbre, les partitions ou
feuilles de musique manuscrites. les manus-
of the recipient, as well as the name and
address of the sender may appear on
gummed labels not exceeding 2 centi
metres by 5. It is likewise permitted to
affix on the back and on the left hand
half of the face illustrations or photo
graphs on very thin paper, provided that
they adhere completely to the card.
4. Post cards with reply paid must
display on the face in French, as heading
on the first half “ Carte postale avec
reponse payee ”; on the second half
“ Carte postale-reponse. Each of the two
halves must, moreover, fulfil the other con
ditions laid down for single post cards ; one
half is doubled over the other, and they
must not be closed in any manner what
soever.
The sender of a post card with reply
paid may indicate his name and address
on the face of the “ Reply ” half, either in
writing, or by affixing a label.
The prepayment of the “ Reply ” half
by means of the postage stamp of the
country which has issued the card is valid
only if the two halves of the reply-paid
post card were attached to one another
when received from the country of origin,
and if the “Reply” half is despatched
from the country where it has been
received by post to the said country of
origin. If these conditions are not ful
filled, it is treated as an unpaid post card.
5. Post cards not fulfilling, so far as
regards the prescribed indications, dimen
sions, external form, &c., the conditions
laid down by the present Article for this
class of correspondence, are treated as
letters.
XVII.
Commercial Papers.
1. The following are considered as
commercial papers, and allowed to pass as
such at the reduced postage specified in
Article 5 of the Convention. All papers
and all documents, whether writings or
drawings, produced wholly or partly by
hand, not having the character of an
actual and personal correspondence, such
as open letters and post cards of ancient
date which have already fulfilled their
original purpose, papers of legal pro
cedure, deeds of all kinds drawn up by
public functionaries, way bills or bills of
lading, invoices, the various documents of
insurance companies, copies of or extracts
from Acts under private signature, written
on stamped or unstamped paper, musical
scores, or sheets of music in manuscript,

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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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