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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [188v] (381/456)
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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58
UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION.
ou leur reexpedition sur un autre point.
La reexpedition pent etre demandee, soit
par TOffice postal d’origine, soit par le
commandant de la division navale ou du
batiment destinataire, soit enfin par un
Consul de meme nationalite.
5. Celles des depeclies dont il s’agit
qui portent la mention “ Aux soins du
Consul de ” sont consignees
au Consulat du pays d’origine. Elies
peuvent etre ulterieurement, a la demande
du Consul, reintegrees dans le service
postal et reexpediees sur le lieu d’origine
ou sur une autre destination.
6. Les depeches a destination d’un
batiment de guerre sont considerees comme
etant en transit jusqu’a leur remise au
commandant de ce batiment de guerre, alors
meme qu’elles auraient ete primitivement
adressees aux soins d’un bureau de poste
ou a un Consul charge de servir d’agent
de transport intermediaire ; elles ne sont
done pas considerees comme etant par-
venues a leur adresse tant qu’elles n’auront
pas ete delivrees au batiment de guerre
respectif.
XXVII.
Correspondances reexpediees.
1. En execution de 1’article 14 de la
Convention, et sauf les exceptions prevues
au paragraphe 2 suivant, les correspon-
dances de toute nature adressees, dans
1’Union, a des destinataires ayant change
de residence, sont traitees par I’Office dis-
tributeur comme si elles avaient ete
adressees directement du lieu d’origine au
lieu de la nouvelle destination.
2. A l’egard, soit des envois du service
interne de 1’un des pays de 1’Union qui
entrent par suite de reexpedition dans
le service d’un autre pays de 1’Union, soit
des envois echanges entre deux pays de
1’Union qui ont adopte dans leurs relations
reciproques une taxe inferieure a la taxe
ordinaire de 1’Union, mais entrant, par
suite de reexpedition, dans le service d’un
troisieme pays de 1’Union vis-a-vis duquel
la taxe est la taxe ordinaire de 1’Union,
soit, enfin, des envois echanges pour leur
premier parcours entre localites de deux
services limitrophes pour lesquels il existe
une taxe reduite, mais reexpedi6s sur
d’autres localites de ces pays de 1’Union
ou sur un autre pays de 1’Union, on
observe les regies suivantes :
1° Les envois non affranchis ou in-
suffisamment aflranchis pour leur
premier parcours sont frappes, par
I’Office distributeur, de la taxe
applicable aux envois de meme
Redirection may be demanded, either by
the Post Office of origin, or by the
commanding officer of the naval division
or the ship addressed, or, lastly, by a
Consul of the same nationality.
5. Such of the mails in question as
bear the inscription “ To the care of the
Consul at .... ” are delivered at
the Consulate of the country of origin.
At the request of the Consul they may
afterwards be received back into the
postal service and redirected to the place
of origin or to another address.
6. Mails addressed to a ship of war are
regarded as being in transit up to the
time of their delivery to the commanding
officer of that ship of war, even when they
shall have been originally addressed to
the care of a Post Office or to a Consul
entrusted with the duty of acting as for
warding agent; they are not, therefore,
regarded as having arrived at their address
so long as they shall not have been
delivered to the ship of war concerned.
XXVII.
liedirected correspondence.
1. In execution of Article 14 of the
Convention, and subject to the exceptions
specified in paragraph 2 following, cor
respondence of every kind circulating in
the Union, addressed to persons who have
changed their residence, is treated by the
delivering Office as if it had been addressed
directly from the place of origin to the
place of the new destination.
2. With regard to inland letters or
packets of one country of the Union,
which enter, in consequence of redirection,
into the service of another country of the
Union, or to letters or packets exchanged
between two countries of the Union, which
have adopted in their reciprocal relations
a lower rate than the ordinary Union
postage, but entering, in consequence of
redirection, into the service of a third
country of the Union as regards which
the rate is the ordinary Union postage, or,
lastly, to letters or packets exchanged,
so far as their first transmission is con
cerned, between places in two neighbouring
countries of the Union within a radius for
which there exists a reduced rate, but
redirected to other places in these countries
or to another country of the Union, the
following rules are observed :
1° Articles unpaid or insufficiently
paid for their first transmission
are subjected by the delivering
Office to the charge applicable
to articles of the same nature
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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