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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [‎187r] (378/456)

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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.
55
Le renvoi des sacs vides doit etre
effectu6 entre les bureaux d’ecliange des
pays correspondants, qui sont respective-
ment designes a cet effet par les Admi
nistrations interessees, apres entente
prealable.
Les sacs vides doivent etre enroules et
attaches ensemble en paquets convenables ;
les cas echeant, les planchettes a etiquettes
doivent etre placees a I’interieur des sacs.
Les paquets doivent etre revetus d’une
etiquette indiquant le nom du bureau
d echange d’ou les sacs ont ete reQus,
chaque fois qu’ils sont renvoyes par
I’intermediaire d’un autre bureau
d’echange.
Pi les sacs vides a renvoyer ne sont pas
trop nombreux, ils peuvent etre places
dans les sacs contenantla correspondance ;
dans le cas contraire, ils doivent etre
places a part dans des sacs cachetes,
etiquetes au nom des bureaux d’echange
respectifs. Les etiquettes doivent porter
la mention “Sacs vides.”
XXV.
Verification des depeches.
1. Le bureau d’echange qui regoit une
depeche constate si les inscriptions sur la
feuille d’avis et, s’il y a lieu, sur la liste
des objets recoimnandes, sont exactes.
Les depeches doivent etre livrees en
bon etat. Cependant, la reception d’une
depeche ne pent pas etre refusee a cause
de son mauvais etat. S’il s’agit d’une
depeche pour un autre bureau que celui
qui en a pris livraison, elle doit etre
emballee de nouveau, tout en conservant,
autant que possible, I’emballage original.
Le remballage est precede de la verification
du contenu s’il est a presumer que celui-
ci n’est pas reste intact.
2. Lorsque le bureau d’echange re-
connait des erreurs on des omissions, il
opere immediatement les rectifications
necessaires sur les feuilles ou listes, en
ayant soin de biffer, d’un trait de plume,
les indications erronees de mani&re a
laisser reconnaitre les inscriptions
primitives.
3. Ces rectifications s’effectuent par le
concours de deux agents. A moins d’une
erreur evidente, elles prevalent sur la
declaration originale.
4. Un bulletin de verification, con-
forme au module F annexe au present
Reglement, est dresse par le bureau
destinataire et envoye sans delai, sous
recommandation d’office, au bureau
expediteur.
The return of empty bags must be
effected by such Offices of exchange of the
corresponding countries as are respectively
appointed for the purpose by the Admini
strations interested, after previous under
standing.
The empty bags must be rolled up and
tied together in suitable bundles ; the label
blocks, if any, being placed in the inside
of the bags. The bundles must be supplied
with a label showing the name of the Office
of exchange whence the bags have been
received on every occasion when they are
returned through another Office of ex
change.
If the bags to be returned are not too
numerous they may be placed in the bags
containing correspondence. In the con
trary case, they must be placed separately
in sealed bags, labelled with the name of
the respective Offices of exchange. The
labels must be marked “Sacs vides”
(empty bags).
XXV.
Verification of the mails.
]. The Office of exchange which
receives a mail ascertains whether the
entries in the letter bill and in the regis
tered letter list, if there be one, are
correct.
The mails must be delivered in good
condition. Nevertheless, the receipt of a
mail cannot be refused on account of its
bad condition. In the case of a mail for
an Office other than that which has
received it, it must be packed up afresh,
but the original packing should be pre
served as far as possible. The repacking
is preceded by a verification of the con
tents, if there is reason to suppose that
they are not intact.
2. When the Office of exchange detects
errors or omissions, it immediately makes
the necessary corrections on the letter bills
or lists, taking care to erase by a stroke of
the pen the erroneous entries in such a
manner as to leave the original entries
legible.
3. These corrections are made by two
officers. Except in the case of an obvious
error, they are accepted in preference to
the original statement.
4. A verification note, in conformity
with the pattern F annexed to the present
Regulations, is prepared by the receiving
Office, and sent without delay, officially
registered, to the despatching Office.

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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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