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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [‎184r] (372/456)

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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. 49
graphie et de I’antographie, ou de tout
autre precede mecanique facile a recon-
naitre, hormis le decalque et la machine
a ecrire.
Sont assimilees aux imprimes, les
v reproductions d’une copie-type faite a la
plume ou a la machine a ecrire lorsqu’elles
sont ohtenues par un precede mecanique
de polygraphie (chroniographie, etc.), mais
pour jouir de ha moderation de taxe, ces
reproductions doivent etre deposees aux
guichets des -bureaux de poste et an
nombre minimum de vingt exemplaires
parfaitement identiques.
2. Ne peuvent etre expedies a la taxe
reduite les imprimes qui portent des signes
quelconques susceptibles de constituer
un langage conventionnel ni, sauf les ex
ceptions explicitement autorisees par le
present article, ceux dont le texte a ete
modi fie apres tirage.
3. II est permis :
(a) d’indiquer a I’exterieurde 1’envoi
le nom, la raison de commerce, la
profession et le domicile de
I’expediteur;
(b) d’ajouter a la main, sur les cartes
de visite imprimees ainsi que sur
les cartes de Noel et de nouvel an,
1’adresse de 1’expediteur, son titre,
ainsi que des souhaits, felicitations,
remerciements, compliments de
condoleance au autres formules
de politesse exprimes en cinq
mots au maximum ou au moyen
d’initiales conventionnelles (p. f.,
etc.);
(c) d’indiquer ou de modifier sur
rimprime meme, a la main ou par
un procede mecanique, la date de
1’expedition, la signature ou la
raison de commerce et la profes
sion, ainsi que le domicile de
I’expediteur et du destinataire ;
(d) d’ajouter aux epreuves corrigees
le manuscrit et de faire a ces
epreuves les changements et addi
tions qui se rapportent a la cor
rection, a la forme et a 1’impres
sion. En cas de manque de place,
ces additions peuvent etre faites
sur des feu dies speciales ;
(e) de corriger les fantes d’impres
sion aussi sur les imprimes autres
que les epreuves ;
(/) de bilfer certaines parties d’un
texte imprime ;
(< 7 ) de faire ressortir au moyen de
traits et de souligner les mots ou
les passages du texte sur lesquels
on desire attirer I’attention ;
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recognise except the copying press and
the typewriter.
To printed papers are assimilated
reproductions of a manuscript or type
written original when they are obtained
by a mechanical process of polygraphy
(chromography, &c.) ; but, in order to pass
at the reduced postage, these reproductions
must be brought to the Post Office counter
to the number of at least twenty copies,
precisely identical.
2. Printed papers which bear any marks
whatever capable of constituting a con
ventional language or, save the exceptions
specifically authorised by the present
article, those of which the text has been
modified after printing, cannot be sent at
the reduced rate applicable to printed
matter.
3. It is allowed : —
(ft) to indicate on the outside of the
missive the name, commercial
style, the profession, and the
address of the sender;
(/;) to add in manuscript, on printed
visiting cards and also on Christ
mas and New Year cards the ad
dress of the sender, his title, as
well as good wishes, congratula
tions, thanks, condolences, or other
formulas of courtesy, expressed in
five words at most or by means
of conventional initials (p.f., &c.);
(c) to indicate or to alter in a
printed paper, in manuscript or
by a mechanical process, the date
of despatch, the signature, or the
commercial style, and the profes
sion, as well as the address of the
sender and of the addressee ;
(d) to enclose the “copy” with
corrected proofs, and to make in
those proofs alterations and addi
tions which relate to accuracy,
form, and printing. In case of
want of space these additions may
be made on separate sheets ;
(e) to correct also errors in printing
in printed documents other than
proofs ;
(/) to erase certain parts of a printed
text;
(g) to make prominent by means of
marks and to underline words or
passages of the text to which it is
desired to draw attention ;
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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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