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Being a cable line I imagine that some testing will have to be continually
done, and there seems little objection on this score alone, that the line should
come first to the Consulate, where the necessary delicate instruments, etc.,
would undoubtedly be better safeguarded and whence the general efficiency of
the line could be better maintained. v ,
5. I would make it clear that I propose no public office in the Consulate,
but simply that for the better maintenance of the line, the wire to the town
office should run from the Consulate instead of direct from the cable-house;
and also from a political point of view it would be infinitely more preferable
to be able to send messages from the Consulate direct to British signallers at
Henjam (where the erection of a Persian office seems problematical), than
through the usual Persian Office in the town; for, I believe, cases have not
infrequently occurred of Persian signallers divulging messages passing over
their wires.
6. No special signaller would be necessary in the Consulate, at least at
first, for the same system might obtain as at the British Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. (Sabza-
had) in Bushire, where an ordinary office clerk receives a small extra allowance
for telegraphy.
7 . I have been induced to bring up the point as during the past week I
have frequently noticed disappointment expressed on its becoming known that
the line was to be Persian; and in each case the reason given was that the
line would be continually out of order. The scheme 1 have outlined above
would obviate, to some extent at least, a considerable amount of such inutility.
8. If you consider it worth while ascertaining the views of the Telegraph
Department upon the matter from a departmental bearing, I would beg that
such reference be carried out expeditiously; for, once the line has been estab
lished, local Persian suspicion of our aims would at once be aroused at any
change subsequently suggested.
G. I. C. P. 0 .—No. 2656 P. D.— 28 . 11 . 1905 .— 55 .—W. DU
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