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File 2626/1905 ‘Persia:- Military Attaché at Meshed’ [21r] (46/532)
The record is made up of 1 volume (259 folios). It was created in 1 Dec 1904-16 Nov 1911. It was written in English. 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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lather than a correct appreciation of the nature of the post He has
accepted the view put forward by the Army Council and other com
petent authorities that the retention of the appointment is of value, at
any late indirectly, to Imperial interests; but he has also felt convinced
that the share hitherto borne by the Imperial Hxchequer has been fully
commensui ate to the benefits received, and he has declined to approach
the ^Iieasuiy with a view to increasing the sum at present contributed.
The Despatches enclosed and the arguments adduced in the India
Office letters of the 2nd September and 18th October emphasise the
pin eh military character of the post; but so far from furnishing Sir
E. Grey with any new reason why the share of the expense hitherto
borne on the estimates of this department should be increased, they
have rather led him to question whether the appointment in future
should not rather be treated on the same footing as Military Attacheships
in other parts of the world. In this view he is confirmed by the fact
emphasised in 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.
letter of the 18th instant that the Imperial
General Staff have addressed the Commander-in-Chief in India with a
view to the General Staff in India assuming entire responsibility for
intelligence work in Russian Turkestan. Sir E. Grey therefore "feels
that only the Army Council can fully estimate precisely to what extent
the post of Intelligence Officer at Meshed is of value to Imperial interests,
and that they are therefore alone able to recommend to the Treasury
what share, if any. of the expenditure connected with the post should be
borne by the Imperial Exchequer.
I am therefore directed by Sir E. Grey to inquire what view the
Army Council takes as to whether the post should be further temporarily
retained or permanently established ; and I am to suggest that if they
favour its retention they should enter into an arrangement with the
India Office
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for an equitable sharing of the expenditure involved.
I am to add that the period for which the retention of the post was
sanctioned in 1908 expired on the 20th instant, but that the Lords Com
missioners of the Treasury have sanctioned its continuance on the present
footing till 31st December next pending a full discussion of the amount
and incidence of the expenses attaching to the post.
Copies of this letter have been forwarded to the Treasury and 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.
.
I am, &c.,
The Secretary, War Office.
W. Langley.
10387.
C
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The volume contains correspondence and notes by British officials about government expenditure on the Government of India post of Military Attaché at the British Consulate General at Meshed in Persia. The main correspondents are senior officials in London at the Foreign Office, 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. , War Office and Treasury. They discuss the joint funding of this post by the Government of India and the Home Government in London (also referred to as the Imperial Government), the continuance of the existing financial contribution to the salary for this post by the Foreign Office and an additional contribution by the War Department out of Army funds, 1910-1911. The correspondence includes representations in 1905 from Arthur Hardinge the Consul General at Tehran, Lieutenant Colonel C F Minchin the Consul General for the province of Khorasan at Meshed and his successor Major P Molesworth Sykes, to the Government of India and the Home Government in London, advocating the retention of Meshed as a centre of military intelligence about Russian Central Asia and the appointment there of a military intelligence officer, given the absence of a British Consular presence in Russian Turkestan and the value of such intelligence gathering to Government of India military authorities in particular.
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- 1 volume (259 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 2626 (Persia – Military Attaché at Meshed) consists of one volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 264; 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.
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- File 2626/1905 ‘Persia:- Military Attaché at Meshed’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:263v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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