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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [‎193v] (391/456)

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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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68
UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION.
XXXV.
Correspondanccs d decouvcrt.
1. Los correspondances ordinaires et
recommaudees ainsi que les lettres de
valeur declaree transmises a deconvert
pendant une periode de statistique font
1’objet d’une inscription sur la feuille
d’avis, par le bureau d’echange expediteur
redigee coniine suit:—
Correspondances a decouvert.
Nombre.
Lettres .......
Carles postales. .....
Autres objets ......
Les correspondances exemptes de tons
frais de transit conformement aux dispo
sitions du § 8 de I’article 4 de la Convention
ne sont pas comprises dans ces cliiffres.
2. Le bureau d’echange correspondant,
apres verification de I’inscription sur la
feuille d’avis, prend livraison des corres
pondances, pour les acheminer vers leurs
destinations en les confondant avec les
siennes propres.
3. Toute erreur dans la declaration du
bureau d’echange expediteur est signalee
immediatement a ce bureau au moyen d’un
bulletin de verification.
4. A defaut de correspondances a
decouvert, le bureau expediteur inscrit en
tete de la feuille d’avis la mention :
“ Pas de correspondances a decouvert.”
XXXVI.
Compte des frais de transit.
1. Les nombres des correspondances
transmises a decouvert et les poids des
depeches closes multiplies tons deux par
13 servent de base a des comptes particu-
liers etablissant en francs et centimes les
prix annuels de transit revenant a chaque
Office. Dans le cas oil ce multiplicateur
ne se rapporte pas a la periodicite du
service, ou lorsqu’il s’agit d’expeditions
extraordinaires faites pendant la periode
de statistique, les Administrations inte-
ressees s’entendent pour 1 adoption d un
autre multiplicateur. Le soin d’etablir les
comptes incombe a I’Office crediteur, qui
les transmet a 1’Office debiteur. Le mul
tiplicateur admis fait chaque fois regie
pour les 6 annees d’une meme periode de
statistique.
2. Afin de tenir compte du poids des
sacs et de I’emballage et des categories de
correspondances exemptes de to us frais de
XXXV.
Correspondence sent a decouvert.
1. Ordinary and registered correspon
dence as well as insured letters forwarded
d decouvert during a statistical period
form the subject of an entry on the letter
bill, by the despatching office of exchange
in the following manner :—
Correspondence d deaniKcrt.
Number.
Letters .......
Post-cards .....
Other articles ......
Correspondence exempt from all transit
charges in accordance with the stipulations
of § 8 of Article 4 of the Convention is not
included in these figures.
2. The corresponding office of exchange,
after verification of the entry on the letter
bill, takes over the correspondence for
despatch to destination among its own
correspondence.
3. Every error in the statement of the
despatching office of exchange is reported
immediately to that office by means of a
verification note.
4. When no correspondence is sent d
decouvert, the despatching office enters at
the head of the letter bill, the remark :
“ Pas de correspondances a decouvert ”
(No correspondence d decouvert).
XXXVI.
Accounting for transit charges.
1. The number of articles forwarded a
decouvert and the weight of the closed
mails, both multiplied by 13, serve as the
basis of special accounts determining-
in francs and centimes the yearly transit
payments due to each Office. In cases
where this multiplier does not correspond
to the periodicity of the service, or when it
is a question of extraordinary despatches
made during the statistical period, the Admi
nistrations concerned come to an agreement
for the adoption of another multiplier.
The duty of preparing the account devolves
on the creditor Office, which forwards them
to the debtor Office. The multiplier agreed
on holds good in each case for the 6 years
of the same statistical period.
2. In order to take into account the
weight of the sacks and packing and of
the classes of correspondence exempt from

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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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