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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [187v] (379/456)
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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56
UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION.
Dans le cas prevu au § 1 du present
article, une copie du bulletin de
verification est inseree dans la depeche
remball^e.
5. Le bureau expediteur, apres examen,
renvoie le bulletin, avec ses observations,
s’il y a lieu.
6 . En cas de manque d’une depeche,
d’un ou de plusieurs objets recommandes
de la feuille d’avis ou de la liste speciale,
le fait est constate immediatement, dans la
forme voulue, par deux agents du bureau
d’echange destinataire et porte a la con-
naissance du bureau d’echange expediteur,
au moyen d’un bulletin de verification
recommande d’office. Toutefois, lorsque
1 ’absence d’une depeche est le resultat
d’un defaut de coincidence des courriers,
le bulletin de verification n’est pas soumis
a la formalite de la recommandation. Si
le cas le comporte, le bureau d’echange
expeditenr pent, en outre, etre avise par
telegramme, aux frais de 1’Office expediteur
du telegramme. En meme temps, un
duplicata du bulletin de verification est
envoye, par le bureau destinataire, dans
les memes conditions que le primata, a
1 ’Administration dont releve le bureau
expediteur et, lorsqu’il s’agit du manque
d’un ou de plusieurs objets recommandes,
de la feuille d’avis ou de la liste speciale
des objets recommandes, ce duplicata doit
etre accompagne du sac ou de 1’enveloppe
et du cachet du paquet desdits objets ou
du sac, de la ficelle, de I’etiquette et du
cachet de la depeche, si ce paquet lui-
meme n’a pas ete trouve.
Des la rentree d’une depeche dont
1 ’absence avait ete signalee au bureau
d origine ou a un bureau intermediaire,
il y a lieu d’adresser au meme bureau un
second bulletin de verification annon^ant
la reception de cette depeche.
Lorsque le manque d’une depeche est
dument explique sur le bordereau de
remise et si cette depeche parvient au
bureau destinataire par le plus prochain
courrier, Tetablissement d’un bulletin de
verification n’est pas necessaire.
7. En cas de perte d’une depeche
close, les offices intermediaires sont
rendus responsables des objets recom
mandes que renfermait la depeche, dans
les limites de 1’art. 8 de la Convention,
a condition que la non-reception de cette
depeche leur ait ete signalee aussitot que
possible.
8 . Lorsque le bureau destinataire n’a
pas fait parvenir au bureau expediteur,
par le premier courrier apres la verifica
tion, un bulletin constatant des erreurs ou
des irregularites quelconques, 1’absence
In the case contemplated in para
graph 1 of the present Article, a copy of
the verification note is inserted in the
repacked mail.
5. The despatching Office, after exami
nation, returns the verification note with
any observations to which it may give
rise.
6 . In case of the failure of a mail, of
one or more registered articles, of the
letter bill, or of the special list, the fact is
immediately verified in the prescribed
manner by two officers of the Exchange
Office of destination, and notified to the
despatching Office by means of a verifica
tion note officially registered. Neverthe
less, when the absence of a mail is the
result of a failure of connexions the
verification note is not sent registered.
If circumstances require, the depatching
Office of exchange may also be advised by
telegram, at the expense of the Office
which sends the telegram. At the same
time a duplicate of the verification note is
sent by the Office of destination in the
same conditions as the original to the
Administration to which the despatching
Office is subordinate, and when it is a
case of the non-receipt of one or more
registered articles, of the letter bill, or of
the special list of registered articles, this
duplicate must be accompanied by the
bag or envelope, and by the seal of the
packet of the articles in question, or of
the sack and by the string, the label, and
the seal of the mail, if the packet itself
has not been found.
As soon as a mail which had been
reported to the Office of origin or an inter
mediate Office as missing comes to hand,
a second verification note is to be ad
dressed to such Office announcing the
receipt of the mail.
When the failure of a mail is duly
explained on the way bill, and if this mail
reaches the Office of destination by the
next opportunity, the preparation of a
verification note is not necessary.
7. In the event of the loss of a closed
mail, intermediate Offices become respon
sible for the registered articles contained
in the mail, within the limits of Article 8
of the Convention, provided that the non-
receipt of such mail shall have been
notified to them as soon as possible.
8 . Where the Office of destination has
not forwarded to the despatching Office by
the first mail after verification, a certificate
reporting errors or irregularities of any
kind, the absence of that document is to
About this item
- 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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