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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [‎195v] (395/456)

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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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72
UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION.
5 e classe: Argentine (R£publiqne),
Bosnie-Herzegcvine, Bulgarie, Chili,
Colombie, Grece, ^lexique, Perou,
Serbie, Tunisie ;
6 C classe : Bolivie, Costa-Pica, Cuba,
Republique Dominicaine, Equateur,
Guatemala, Haiti, Republique de
Honduras, Luxembourg, Republique
de Nicaragua, Republique de Pana
ma, Paraguay, Perse, Republique
de Salvador, Royamne de Siam,
Uruguay, Venezuela, protectorats
allemands de 1’Afrique, protectorats
allemands de I’Asie et de I’Austra-
lasie, colonies danoises, colonie de
Curasao (on Antilles neerlandaises),
colonie de Surinam (on Guyane
neerlandaise);
V classe: Etat independant du
Congo, Coree, Crete, - etablissements
espagnols du golfe de_ Guinee,
ensemble des colonies italiennes,
Liberia, Montenegro.
5th class : Argentine Republic,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Chili,
Colombia, Greece, Mexico, Peru,
Servia, Tunis ;
6th class : Bolivia, Costa Rica, Cuba,
Dominican Republic, Ecuador,
Guatemala, Hayti, Republic of Hon
duras, Luxemburg, Republic of
Nicaragua, Republic of Panama,
Paraguay, Persia, Republic of Sal
vador, Kingdom of Siam, Uruguay,
Venezuela, German Protectorates in
Africa, German Protectorates in Asia
and Australasia, Danish Colonies,
Colony of Curasao (or Dutch West
Indies), Colony of Surinam (or Dutch
Guiana).
7th class : Congo Free State, Corea,
Crete, Spanish Establishments in
the Gulf of Guinea, the whole of
the Italian Colonies, Liberia,
Montenegro.
XXXIX.
Communications a adresser au Bureau
international.
XXXIX.
Communications to be addressed to the
International Bureau.
1. Le Bureau international sert d’in- 1. The International Bureau serves as
termediaire aux notifications regulieres et the medium for regular notifications of
generales qui mteressent les relations a geneial kind concerning international
Internationales. relations.
2. Les Administrations faisant partie 2. The Administrations ^ belonging to
de 1’Union doivent se communiquer the Union must communicate to each
notamment, par Pintermediaire du Bureau other specially through the medium of the
Internationale : International Bureau .
1° 1’indication des surtaxes qu’elles
per^oivent par application de
Particle 5 de la Convention, en
plus de la taxe de PUnion, soit
pour port maritime, soit pour
frais de transport extraordinaires,
ainsi que la nomenclature des
pays par rapport auquels ces
surtaxes sont pergues, et, s’il y a
lieu, la designation des voies qui
en motivent la perception ;
2° la collection en trois exemplaires
de leurs timbres-poste, avec in
dication, le cas echeant, de la date
a partir de la laquelle les timbres-
poste des emissions anterieures
cesseraient d’avoir cours ;
1° The particulars of the surcharges
which, by virtue of Article 5 of
the Convention, they levy in
addition to the Union rate, whether
for sea postage or for expenses of
extraordinary conveyance, as well
as a list of the countries in re
lation to which these surcharges
are levied, and, if needful, the
designation of the routes giving
rise to the surcharges ;
2° Three complete sets of their
postage stamps, with an indica
tion, when the case arises, of the
date on which postage stamps of
previous issues cease to be valid ;
3° Pavis si elles entendent user de la
faculte qui est laissee aux Admini
strations d’appliquer ou de ne pas
appliquer certaines dispositions
generales de la Convention et du
present Reglement;
V les taxes moderees qu’elles out
adoptees, soit en vertu d’arrange-
ments particuliers conclus par
application de Particle 21 de la
3° Notice whether they mean to use
the option left to Administrations
to apply or not to apply certain
general stipulations of the Con
vention and of the present
Regulations.
4° The reduced rates which they have
adopted, either in virtue of special
arrangements concluded under
Article 21 of the Convention, or

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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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