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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [‎186r] (376/456)

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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.
53
et cachetes de maniere a en preserver le sealed so as to preserve the contents. The
contenu Les objets recommandes sont registered articles are arranged in each
classes dans chaque paquet d’apres leur packet in the order of their entry in the
ordre d inscription. Quand on emploie list. When several separate lists are used,
plusieurs listes detachees, chacune d’elles each of them is tied up with the registered'
est eniiassee avec les objets recommandes articles to which it relates,
auxquels elle se rapporte.
Dans aucun cas^ les objets recoin- In no case must the registered articles
mandes ne pen vent etre confondus avec be mixed with ordinary correspondence,
les correspondances ordinaires.
2 . Au paquet d’objets recommandes
est attachee exterieurement, par un croise
de ficelle, 1’enveloppe special contenant
la feuille d’avis ; lorsque les objets recom
mandes sont renfermes dans un sac, ladite
enveloppe est fixee au col de ce sac.
S’il y a plus d’un paquet ou sac d’objets
recommandes, chacun des paquets ou sacs
supplementaires est muni d’une etiquette
indiquant la nature du contenu.
Les paquets ou sacs d’objets recom
mandes sont places au centre de la depeche
et de maniere a attirer I’attention de I’agent
qui procede a I’ouverture.
3. Le mode d’endiallage et de trans
mission des objets recommandes, prescrit
ci-dessus, s’applique seulement aux rela
tions ordinaires. Pour les relations
importantes, il appartient aux Administra
tions interessees de prescrire, d’un commun
accord, des dispositions particulieres, sous
reserve, dans I’un comme dans 1’autre cas,
des mesures exceptionnelles a prendre par
les chefs des bureaux d’echange lorsqu’ils
out a assurer la transmission d’objets
recommandes qui, par leur nature, leur
forme ou leur volume, ne seraient pas
susceptibles d’etre inseres dans la depeche.
XXIII.
Transmission des correspondances a faire
remettre par expres.
1. Les correspondances ordinaires a
la ire remettre par expres sont reunies
en une liasse speciale et inserees, par les
bureaux d’echange, dans 1’enveloppe con-
tenant la feuille d’avis qui accompagne
la depeche.
Une fiche placee dans cette liasse
indique, le cas echeant, la presence, dans
la depeche, des correspondances de 1’espece,
qui, en raison de leur forme ou de leurs
dimensions, n’ont pu etre jointes a la
feuille d’avis.
2. Les correspondances recommandees
a faire remettre par expres sont classees,
a leur ordre, parmi les autres corres
pondances recommandees et la mention
“ Expres ” est portee dans la colonne
“ Observations ” des feuilles d’avis, en
regard de I’inscription de chacune d’elles.
A 48592.
2 . To the outside of the packet of
registered articles the special envelope
containing the letter bill is attached by a
string tied cross-wise, when the registered
articles are enclosed in a bag the envelope
in question is attached to the neck of the
bag.
If there is more than one packet or
bag of registered articles, each of the
additional packets or bags is supplied
with a label, indicating the nature of the
contents.
The packets or bags of registered
articles are placed in the centre of the
mail in such a manner as to attract the
attention of the Officer who opens it.
3. The mode of packing and forward
ing registered articles, prescribed above,
applies only to ordinary exchanges. For
important exchanges it is fqr the offices
concerned to prescribe by common consent
special arrangements, subject in the one
case as in the other to exceptional measures
to be taken by the heads of the Offices of
exchange, when they have to ensure the
transmission of registered articles which,
from their nature, form, or size, would
not be capable of being enclosed in the
principal mail.
XXIII.
Transmission of correspondence intended
for express delivery.
1 . Ordinary correspondence intended
for express delivery is combined in a
special bundle and inserted, by the Offices
of exchange, in the envelope containing
the letter bill which accompanies the
mail.
When the case arises, a label placed in
this bundle indicates the presence in the
mail of correspondence of this nature
which by reason of its form or size cannot
be placed with the letter bill.
2. Registered correspondence intended
for express delivery is arranged in order
among the other registered correspondence,
and the entry “Express” is made in the
column headed “ Observations ” of the
letter bill in respect of each article.
D 3

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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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