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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [‎196r] (396/456)

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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.
73
Convention, soit en execution de
1’article 20 de la Convention, et
Tin dication des relations dans
lesquelles ces taxes moderees sont
applicables;
5° la liste des objets interdits a
1’importation on an transit et de
ceux qui sont admis conditionnelle-
ment an transport dans leurs
services respectifs. Cette liste
devra indiquer separement lesdits
objets par mode de transport,
savoir:
(а) par la “ poste aux lettres ”
(lettres, imprimes, echan-
tillons);
(б) sous forme de “ colis postal ”
(dans les relations entre pays
contractants ou non contrac-
tants); et
(c) facultativement sous une
autre forme (par 1’interme-
diaire des Administrations
postales ou d’autres entre-
prises de transport).
3. Toute modification apportee ulte-
rieurement, a I’egard de I’un ou 1’autre
des cinq points ci-dessus mentionnes, doit
etre notiliee sans retard de la meme
maniere.
4. Le Bureau international regoit ega-
lement de toutes les Administrations de
1’Union deux exemplaires de tous les
documents qu’elles publient, tant sur le
service interieur que sur le service inter
national.
XL.
Statistique generale.
1. Chaque Administration fait parvenir,
a la fin du mois de juillet de cliaque annee,
au Bureau international, une serie aussi
complete que possible de renseignements
statistiques se rapportant a I’annee prece-
dente, sous forme de tableaux conformes
ou analogues aux modeles ci-annexes R
et S.
2. Les operations de service qui don-
nent lieu a enregistrement font I’objet de
releves periodiques, d’apres les ecritures
effectuees. -
3. Pour toutes les autres operations, il
est precede chaque annee a un comptage
en bloc des objets de correspondance de
toute nature, sans faire de distinction
entre les lettres, cartes postales, imprimes,
papiers d’affaires et echantillons de mar-
chandises, et tous les trois ans, au plus
tard, a un denombrement des differentes
categories de correspondances.
Les statistiques ont lieu pour les
echanges quotidiens pendant une semaine,
a partir du deuxieme jeudi du mois
in execution of Article 20 of the
Convention, and a statement of
the relations in which these
reduced rates are applicable.
5° The list of articles prohibited from
importation or from transit and of
those which are admitted con
ditionally to conveyance in their
respective services. This list
must show separately the articles
in question according to the mode
of conveyance, namely :
(a) by “ letter post ” (letters,
printed papers, samples) ;
(b) by “parcel post” (in rela
tions between participating
or non - participating coun
tries) ; and
(c) optionally under another
form (by the medium of
postal administrations or of
other carrying agencies).
3. Every modification subsequently
introduced, in regard to one or other of
the five points above mentioned, must be
notified without delay in the same manner.
4. The International Bureau receives
besides from all the Administrations of
the Union two copies of all the documents
which they publish, whether relating to
the inland service or to the international
service.
XL.
General Statistics.
1. Every Administration sends to the
International Bureau, at the end of the
month of July in each year, as complete
a series as possible of statistical returns
relating to the preceding year, arranged
in tables in conformity with or analagous
to the patterns R and S annexed.
2. Those cervices in which each trans
action is recorded are dealt with in
periodical statements based upon the
entries made.
3. With regard to all other transactions,
every year a count is made in bulk of
correspondence of all kinds without dis
tinction between letters, post cards, printed
papers, commercial papers and samples of
merchandise, and every three years, at
latest, a count of the different classes of
correspondence.
The statistics are taken for daily ex
changes during one week, from the second
Thursday of October, and for exchanges

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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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