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File 2626/1905 ‘Persia:- Military Attaché at Meshed’ [193r] (390/532)
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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Ho. 115 of 1907.
Army Department.
To
THE RIGHT HON’BLE JOHN MORLEY, O.M.,
HIS MAJESTY’S SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA.
Simla, the ’/th November igoj*
of tfhe 6th April last, we had the honour to address you by telegrani, No ; 2819-C.,
of the 2nd October in which we recommended the retention of the appointment of
the Military Attache, Meshed, beyond the 20th October of this year. We have
\ ^ since received your telegram of^th October and we note with satisfaction that
you have been pleased to sanction Captain Smyth’s retention at Meshed for a
further period of six months, dating from 20th instant, pending a decision on the
whole question. In the present despatch we propose to lay before you in detail
the reasons that have led us to make this recommendation, which embraces :—
(<7) the conversion of the temporary appointment into a permanent one ;
(b) the retention of the present incumbent, Captain Smyth, The Cheshire
Regiment, for a period of one year to the 20th October 1908.
2. We had hoped to address you at an earlier date on this subject, but, as it
would necessarily be affected by the results of the recent negotiations with
Russia, we considered it desirable to await the signature of the Conventions
relating to Persia and Afghanistan when the situation, thereby created, would bo
3 . It will be seen from the enclosure to our Military despatch, No. 170 of the
1 st December 1904 , in which the creation of this appointment was suggested, that
Lord Kitchener considered it a necessity in order that a sound system of intelli
gence of events in Central Asia might be substituted for the conditions then
obtaining under which we were dependent chiefly on unreliable and untrained
native agents
Non-British agents affiliated with the British Government.
, who, in too many cases, merely transmitted to Meshed the unsitted
gossip of the various Central Asian bazaars.
4 . The proposal was referred to His Majesty s Minister at Tehran, who
< /oO replied in his despatch, No. 113 of the 22 nd May 1905 , that the work of obtain
ing full, reliable and early particulars of political events and military move
ments in Central Asia and on the Afghan frontiers required the concen
trated and undivided attention of one man and could not be combined with the
daily multifarious duties of the Agent and Consul-General at Meshed, bir
A. Hardinge, consequently, supported the proposal, but at first as a temporary
measure until the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese war. In the meantime he
proposed to visit Meshed, to make himself more fully acquainted with the nature
of the work of the Military Attache, and to consider the question CrTthe' 4 pot.
<0 3 On the 9 th September 1905 , when the war had come to , 4 , close,, SirAi
Hardinge, in his despatch No. 197 , reported that his visit to M|s^4ia
and
clearer.
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:263v, back-i
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