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File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [‎197r] (398/456)

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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.
75
7. Le Bureau international instruit les
demandes de modification on d’interpre-
tation des dispositions qui regissent
1’Union. II notifie les resultats de chaque
instruction, et toute modification on reso-
. hition adoptee n’est executoire que’ trois
mois, an moins, apres sa notification.
8. Le Bureau international opere la
balance et la liquidation des decomptes de
toute nature entre les Administrations de
1’Union qui declarent vouloir emprunter
Fintermediaire de ce Bureau dans les
conditions detenninees par Farticle XLII
ci-apres.
9. Le Bureau international prepare les
travaux des Congres ou Conferences. II
pourvoit aux copies et impressions neces-
saires, a la redaction et a la distribution
des amendements, proces-verbaux et autres
renseignements.
10. Le Directeur de ce Bureau assiste
aux seances des Congres et Conferences
et prend part aux discussions sans voix
deliberative.
11. II fait sur sa gestion un rapport
annuel qui est communique a toutes les
Administrations de 1’Union.
12. La langue officielle du Bureau
international est la langue frangaise.
13. Le Bureau international est charge
de publier un dictionnaire alphabetique
de tons les bureaux de poste du monde,
avec une mention speciale pour ceux de
ces bureaux charges de services qui ne
sont pas encore generalises. Ce dictiom
naire est tenu an courant an moyen de
supplements on de toute autre maniere
que le Bureau international jugera con-
venable.
Le dictionnaire mentionne au present
paragraphe est livre au prix de revient
aux Administrations qui en font la
demande.
14. Le Bureau international est charge
de la confection et de rapprovisionnement
des coupons-reponse prevus a I’article 11
de la Convention principale, ainsi que de
letablissement et de la liquidation des
comptes se rapportant a ce service et dont
il s’agit a 1’article VII du present Regie-
ment.
7. The International Bureau makes
known demands for the modification or
interpretation of the stipulations which
regulate the Union. It notifies the results
of each application, and no modification or
resolution adopted is binding until three
months at least after its notification.
8. The International Bureau effects the
balance and liquidation of accounts of
every description between the Administra
tions of the Union which declare their
wish to use that Bureau as a medium
under the conditions laid down by Article
XLII of the following.
9. The International Bureau prepares
the business to be submitted to Congresses
or Conferences. It undertakes the neces
sary copying and printing, the editing and
distribution of amendments, minutes of
proceedings, and other information.
10. The Director of the International
Bureau attends the sittings of the Con
gresses or Conferences, and takes part in
the discussions, but without the power of
voting.
11. On the subject of his proceedings
he makes an annual report, which is com
municated to all the Administrations of
the Union.
12. The official language of the Inter
national Bureau is the French language.
13. It is the duty of the International
Bureau to publish an alphabetical dic
tionary of all the Post Offices of the world,
with special indication of such of those
Offices as undertake services which have
not yet become general. That dictionary
is kept up to date by means of supplements
or in any other manner which the Liter-
national Bureau shall consider suitable.
The dictionary mentioned in the
present paragraph is issued at prime cost
to the Administrations which apply for it.
14. It is the duty of the International
Bureau to arrange for the manufacture and
supply of the reply coupons provided for
in Article 11 of the Principal Convention,
as well as to prepare and liquidate the
accounts connected with this service
specified in Article VTI of the present
Regulations.
XLII.
Office central de comptabilite et de liquida
tion des comptes entre les Admini
strations de V Union.
1. Le Bureau international de F Union
postale universelle est charge d’operer la
balance et la liquidation des decomptes de
toute nature relatifs au service ^ interna
tional des postes entre les Administrations
XLII.
Central office of accounting and liquidation
of accounts between the Administra
tions of the Union.
1. It is the duty of the International
Bureau of the Universal Postal Union to
effect the balance and liquidation of
accounts of every description relative to
the international postal service between

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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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