File 2626/1905 ‘Persia:- Military Attaché at Meshed’ [‎20v] (45/532)

Enclosure No. 4 .
No. 38,002.
Foreign Office to 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. .
Foreign Office,
2nd November 1910.
The Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents Ins com
pliments to the Under Secretary of State for India and, by direction of
the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned
paper.
Name and Date.
Subject.
To War Office, 2nd November
1910.
Intelligence Officer at Meshed.
Annex.
Foreign Office to A\ ar Office.
No. 38,00-'.
Sir,
Foreign Office,
2nd November 1910.
I am directed by tbe Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to
refer to previous correspondence with your Department ending with
your letter of 16th September 1908, on the subject of the post of
Military Attache at Meshed. I am to transmit to you, for the infor
mation of the Army Council, the enclosed copy of correspondence which
ensued on that letter between this Department, 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 Treasury, from which it will be seen that the latter, in view of
the Imperial interests involved, consented to the charge on the
Imperial revenues of one half the expenditure involved, which at that
period was given as amounting in all to five hundred and seventy-
fourjpounds eight shillings (574L 8s.), seven hundred pounds (TOOL),
or nine hundred and twenty-seven pounds four shillings (927Z. 4s.),
according to the rank of the office] - employed. This sanction was in
accordance with the usual procedure adopted for the adjustment of
expenditure on His Majesty’s Diplomatic and Consular Establishments
in Persia, whereby such expenditure is equally scared between the
Indian and Imperial Exchequers, the latter’s share being debited to
the Foreign Office Vote.
In a subsequent letter of 10th September 1909 (copy also enclosed)
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. brought to the notice of this Department further
contingent expenses connected with the post, bringing the total expen
diture for the year 1909-10 up to two thousand three hundred and
seventy-two pounds (2,372L), and it was suggested that the sanction of
the Treasury should be sought to charging a moiety of these contingent
expenses, as well as of the pay of the Military Attache, against British
revenues. To this step Sir E. Grey, for reasons set forth in the reply to
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. fetter, felt himself unable to assent.
In further correspondence, of which I am to transmit to you copies,
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. have again reverted to this subject, and have adduced
arguments in favour of reversing this decision. From a perusal of this
correspondence the Army Council will see that, in the view of the
Government of India, it is wrong to regard this post as coming under
the arrangement mentioned above, by which a general sharing of
expenditure in Persia is contemplated. The residence of the Military