File 1408/1904 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf: telegraphs. Henjam-Bunder Abbas-cable’ [100r] (204/478)
The record is made up of 1 volume (235 folios). It was created in 1904-1909. 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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I .nave just received a tel. from Consul at Bunder
Atfbas from which ic would appear that , in spite of the
protest lodged by the Consul on behalf of the Telegraph
Superintendent, Birector of Customs has again recommenced
building. A guard was therefore placed on the cable by
the Consul, but, on tne Persians bringing up a number of
soldiers, it was withdrawn, and the Consul filed a protest
against the use of force.
H.M.S. "Pox" is shortly to visit Bunder Abbas in
connection with the arms raffic and the Consul asks to
be authorized to request the Commander to land a party and
to inform the local authorities that, pending further
instructions, he has orders to prevent building operations.
Tomorrow morning I will interview Director Gene
ral of Customs and will endeavour to arrange that pending
the receipt of your reply the work should be temporarily
suspended. I have meanwhile told the Consul not to ask
the Commander of the "Pox" to intervene without further
instructions from me. The pecuniary loss resulting from
the erection of building in an unsuitable place will of
course fall upon the Persian Government and not on us, but 4
a&ttthe same time it is very humiliating that the local
authorities should continue their building by force in
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the face of the Consul’s explanations and I think it
urgent that we should insist on the suspension of building
pending settlement in order to support the Consul. -"-he
question of the cable-house siue can easily be setoled
amicably, and, as I have before stated, ohere is no
violent hurry.
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The volume comprises notes, memoranda, copies of correspondence and other papers, relating to an agreement reached between the British and Persian Governments for the construction of a telegraph cable line between the telegraph station at Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām] and Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās], and a subsequent dispute between the British and Persian Governments over the location of the telegraph office in Bunder Abbas. The volume’s principal correspondents are: the 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 Percy Zachariah Cox); the British Ambassador (or Chargé d’Affaires) at Tehran (Sir Arthur Henry Hardinge; Sir Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff); the Assistant Resident and British Consul at Bandar-e ʻAbbās (Lieutenant William Henry Irvine Shakespear).
The volume’s papers include:
- proposals, set out by British officials, for a telegraph cable running between Henjam and Bunder Abbas, chiefly for the benefit of the Indian merchant community at the latter place;
- papers detailing negotiations between British and Persian officials through 1905 concerning the construction of the telegraph cable from Henjam to Bunder Abbas, and the construction and operation of a telegraph office at Bundar Abbas. Much of the discussion centres on the running and costs of the telegraph office at Bundar Abbas, in response to the Persian Government’s insistence that they run the office, and the British Government’s insistence that only Persians be employed in the office (in order to prevent the appointment of Russian telegraphists). A printed copy of the agreement for the construction of the telegraph line from Henjam to Bunder Abbas, dated 13 May 1905, is included in the volume (f 149);
- copies of telegrams and other papers dated 1906, documenting the construction of telegraph facilities at Bunder Abbas, including British intentions to run the cable via their consular buildings, Persian objection to the proposals, and the protracted dispute over the location of the telegraph office that ensued;
- correspondence dated 1909, including a letter from Sir George Head Barclay at the British Embassy in Tehran, to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Edward Grey, dated 8 March 1909, confirming that the dispute between the British and Persian authorities over the location of a telegraph office at Bunder Abbas has been resolved (ff 20-21).
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- 1 volume (235 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 237; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 130-143; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:13v, 14v, 15v:27v, 29r:36v, 38v:41v, 43r:53v, 54v:84v, 87r:87v, 89r:149r, 150r:159v, 161r:164r, 165v:167r, 168r:236v, back-i
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