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File 1408/1904 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf: telegraphs. Henjam-Bunder Abbas-cable’ [‎135r] (274/478)

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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Telegram, dated the 18th (received 19th) December 1905.
From- Captain A^P. Tkbvor, First Assistant to 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
To_The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department, Calcutta.
Hen jam-Bunder Abbas telegraph extension. Please refer to your
tele^am No 46 o 4-E.A. The cables and the land line are now complete, only
the Bunder Abbas land end remains unfinished. No official of the Persian
Goyernment is present.
,, .l 0 “ y the only plausible reason we could put forward -for taking
the line by the Consulate at Bunder Abbas is that suited in your teleeram
cited above. But His Majesty’s Charge d’ Affaires at Tehran is better ab?e to
say whether the Persian Government would, in view of the terms of the * Et c i» 2
Agreement,* agree to the arrangement. Pro. io he
~ in Secret E.,
August 1905,
Noa. 416-417.
Repeated to Lieutenant Shakespear.
No. 4722-E.A,, dated Fort William, the 20th December 1905.
From—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department,
To-E. M. Grant Duff, Esq., His Majesty's Charge d'Affaires, Tehran.
Telegram from 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. , Persian
Gulf, dated the 7th October 1906.
Telegram to 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. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ,
No. 3841-E.A., dated the 14th October 1906.
From 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. ,
No. 625, dated the 10th November 1905, and
enclosure.
Telegram to 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, No. 4654-E.A. dated the 15th December
1905.
I am directed to forward for your infor
mation a copy of the marginally cited
correspondence regarding the laying of
the Henjam-Bunder Abbas cable.
Persian Gulp.
MEMORANDUM.
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Henjam-Bunder Albas Telegraph Extension.
Telegram from 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. , Persian
Gulf, dated the 7th October 1905.
Telegram to 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. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ,
No. 3841-E.A., dated the 14th October 1905. |
From Captain A. P. Trevor, Assistant Resident, ^
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , No. 516, dated the 4th November f
1905, and enclosure.
From Major P. Z. Cox, C.I.E., 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. , No. 525, dated the 10th Nov
ember 1905, and enclosure.
To Major P. Z. Cox, C.I.E., Officiating Political
Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , No. 4654-E.A., dated
the 15th December 1905.
The papers specified in the margin were
transmitted to the Secretary, Political
Department, 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. , London, for the
information of His Majesty’s Secretary of
State for India, under coyer of the
Poreign Secretary’s letter No. 51-M. }
dated the 21st December 1905.
Telegram No. 4753-E.A., dated the 21st December 1905.
From—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department,
Calcutta,
To— Major P. Z. Cox, C.I.E., 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. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Bushire.
Henjam-Bunder Abbas Telegraph extension. Please refer to your
telegram, dated the 18th December. Pending formal opening of line could you
not arrange with Telegraph Department to pass service messages over it
informally, operator working temporarily at cable end shed to be placed at new
Consulate site whence line could be taken to town office when matters as
regards this are settled. Under the Anglo-Persian Agreement the transfer to
Persian control is not to take place until the cost has been paid by Persia.
Do you know if they are prepared to efifect immediate payment ?
Repeated to Mr. E, Grant Duff, Tehran.

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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.

Physical characteristics

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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