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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [186v] (377/456)
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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54
UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION.
XXIV.
Confection des depeches.
1. En regie generale, les objets qui
composent les depeches doivent etre classes
et enliasses par nature de correspondances,
en separant les objets affranchis des objets
non on insuffisamment affranchis.
Les lettres portant des traces d’ouver-
ture on d’avarie doivent etre munies d’une
mention du fait et frappees du timbre a
date du bureau qui a constate ce fait.
Les mandats de poste expedies a de-
couvert sont reunis en un paquet distinct,
apres subdivision, s’il y a lieu, en autant
de basses qu’il y a de pays destinataires.
Ce paquet est insere autant que faire se
pent, par les bureaux d’echange, dans
Penveloppe contenant la feuille d’avis qui
accompagne la depeche.
2. Dans les echanges par voie de terre
toute depeche, apres avoir ete ficelee, est
enveloppee de papier fort en quantite
sufhsante pour eviter toute deterioration
du contenu, puis ficelee exterieurement et
cachetee a la cire an moyen du cachet du
bureau. Elle est munie d’une suscription
imprimee portant, en petits caracteres, le
nom du bureau expediteur et, en caracteres
plus forts, le nom du bureau destinataire :
“ de . . . . pour . . . .”
Les depeches expedites par voie de mer
sont renfermees dans des sacs convenable-
ment fermes, cachetes on plombes et
etiquetes. II en est de meme des depeches
expediees par la voie de terre lorsque leur
volume le comporte.
3. Pour les depeches renfermees dans
des sacs, les etiquettes doivent etre en
toile, cuir on parchemin ou en papier colle
sur une planchette. L’etiquette doit indi-
quer d’une fagon lisible le bureau d’ori-
gine et celui de destination.
4. Lorsque le nombre ou le volume des
envois exige I’emploi de plus d’un sac, des
sacs distincts doivent, autant que possible,
etre utilises:
(а) pour les lettres et cartes postales ;
(б) pour les autres objets.
Chaque sac doit porter Findication de
son contenu.
Le paquet ou sac des objets recom-
mandes est place dans un des sacs de
lettres.
Ce sac est designe par la lettre F
tracee d’une maniere apparente sur
1’etiquette.
5. Le poids de chaque sac doit ne pas
depasser 40 kilogrammes.
6. Les sacs doivent etre renvoyes vides
au pays d’origine par le prochain courrier,
sauf autre arrangement entre les Offices
correspondants.
XXIV.
Making up the mails.
1. As a general rule, the articles of
which the mails consist must be classified
and tied up in bundles according to the
nature of the correspondence, the prepaid y
correspondence being separated from the
unpaid and insufficiently prepaid.
Letters bearing traces of violation or
damage must have the fact noted on them
and be marked with the date stamp of the
Office making the note.
Monev Orders sent d decouvert are
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made up in a separate packet after sub
division, if necessary, into as many bundles
as there are countries of destination. This
packet is inserted, whenever practicable,
by the Offices of exchange in the envelope
containing the Letter Bill which accom
panies the Mail.
2. In territorial exchanges every mail,
after having been tied with string, is
wrapped in strong paper sufficient in
quantity to prevent damage to the contents,
then tied again with string on the outside,
and sealed with wax by means of the
official seal. The mail is furnished with a
a printed address bearing, in small
characters, the name of the Despatching
Office, and in larger characters the name
of the Office of destination : “From ....
for . . . .”
Mails sent by sea are enclosed in bags
properly closed, sealed with wax or with
lead and labelled. The same rule applies
in the case of Mails sent by land when
their size requires it.
3. The labels used for mails sent in
bags must be of linen, leather or parchment,
or of paper affixed to blocks. The label
should indicate in a legible manner the
Office of origin and that of destination.
4. When the number or bulk of the
mails necessitates the use of more than one
bag, separate bags must as far as possible
be utilised :
(а) For letters and post cards ;
(б) For other articles.
Each bag must bear the indication of
its contents.
The packet or bag of registered articles
is placed in one of the bags of letters.
This bag is distinguished by the
letter F marked plainly on the label.
5. No bag must exceed 40 kilogrammes
in weight.
6. The bags must be returned empty
to the country of origin by the next mail,
in the absence of other arrangements
between the corresponding Offices..
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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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