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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [‎188r] (380/456)

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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.
57
de ce document vaut comme accuse de
reception de la depeche et de son contenu,
jusqu’a preuve du contraire.
be regarded as evidence of the due receipt
of the mail and its contents, until the
contrary be proved.
XXVI.
XXVI.
Depeches echangees avec des bdtiments
de guerre.
1. L’etablissement d’un echange, en
depeches closes, entre un Office postal de
I’Union et des divisions navales on bati-
ments de guerre de meme nationalite, ou
entre une division navale ou batiment de
guerre et une autre de meme nationalite,
doit etre notifie, autant que possible a
1’avance aux Offices intermediaires.
2. La suscription de ces depeches est
redigee comnie suit:
Du bureau de . . . . .
fla division navale (nationalite)
de (designation de la division)
a
le batiment (nationalite) le (nom
du batiment) a . . .
(Pays)
ou
De la division navale (nationalite) de
(designation de la division) a .
Du batiment (nationalite) le (nom du
batiment) a .... .
Pour le bureau de . . . .
(Pays)
Pour {
ou
De la division navale (nationalite) de
(designation de la division) a ..
Du batiment (nationalite) le (nom du
batiment) a .... .
fla division navale (nationalite)
de (designation dela division)
Po J a * ’
01]r j le batiment (nationalite) le (nom
du batiment) a . . .
1 (Pays)
3. Les depeches a destination ou
provenant de divisions navales ou de ba-
timents de guerre sont acheminees, sauf
indication d’une voie speciale sur I’adresse,
par les voies les plus rapides et dans
les memes conditions que les depeches
echangees entre bureaux de poste.
Quand les depeches a destination d’une
division navale ou d’un batiment de guerre
sont expediees en dehors, le capitaine du
paquebot postal qui les transporte les
tient a la disposition du commandant de
la division ou du batiment destinataire
pour le cas ou celui-ci viendrait demander
au paquebot en route la livraison de ces
depeches.
4 . Si les batiments ne se trouvent pas
au lieu de destination quand les depeches
a leur adresse y arrivent, ces depeches
sont conservees au bureau de poste, en
attendant leur retrait par le destinataire
Mails exchanged with Ships of War.
1. The establishment of an exchange
of closed mails between a Post Office of
the Union and naval divisions or ships of
war of the same nationality or between
one naval division or ship of war and
another of the same nationality must be
notified, as far as possible in advance, to
the intermediate offices.
2. The address of such mails should
be in the following form :
From the Post Office of . . .
the (nationality) naval division
of (name of the division) at .
1 * or • i • •
] the (nationality) ship (name of
the ship) at .
(Country)
or
From the (nationality) naval division
of (name of the division) at .
From the (nationality) ship (name of
the ship) at .... .
For the Post Office of ...
(Country)
or
From the (nationality) naval division
of (name of the division) at
From the (nationality) ship (name of
the ship) at .... .
' the (nationality) naval division
(name of the division) at
For ■<
i the (nationality) ship (name of
the ship) at .
t (Country)
3. Mails addressed to or sent from
naval divisions or ships of war are for
warded, unless specially addressed as to
route, by the most rapid routes, and in
the same conditions as mails exchanged
between Post Offices.
When mails for a naval division or
ship of war are sent unenclosed, the captain
of the Packet conveying them holds them
at the disposal of the commanding officer
of the naval division or ship addressed,
in case the latter should require delivery
of the mails while the Packet is on her
way.
4. If the ships are not at the place of
destination when mails addressed to them
arrive there, the mails are kept at the
Post Office until fetched away by the
addressee or redirected to another place.

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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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