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File 2626/1905 ‘Persia:- Military Attaché at Meshed’ [203r] (410/532)
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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From Viceroy > *Jth February 1907.
( Your telegram of 21st January regarding Smyth, 2nd Battalion Cheshire
Regiment. We strung^recommend^^manent^ appointment of Military
Attache, Meshed, recommendeAln our Military Despatch No. 135, of 19th
October 1905. Spring-Rice concurs in necessity for this, for the reasons
given in Hardinge’s Despatch No. 197, of 19th September 1905. We recom
mend that Smyth should be retained there to complete a period of four years
from date of appointment, that is to 20th October 1908.
From Secreiaj'y of State to Viceroy, Foreign Department,
2hth February 1907.
Your telegram, 7th instant. Military Attache, Meshed. Cauimf
asse nt to permane nt app ointment. Will consider gen eral ques tion. Mean-
while should wish to know authority for statement that Spring-Rice
concurs.
From Viceroy, ftth March 1907.
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Your telegram of 23rd February regarding Military Attache, Meshed.
We would ask permission to retain Smyth there unti l 20th Oct obe r or until
Ihe general quest ion has be en settled.. The foTIowmg"Telegram, received
from Spring-Rice, to the address*of" British Consul-General, Meshed, and
repeated to Government of India, on 2nd January last, is authority for
statement made: “I concur in Sir A. Hardinge s Despatch No. 197,
9th September 1905, on the subject of the Military Attache, Meshed.”
From Secretary of State to Viceroy, Foreign Department,
&th April 1907.
Yours 6th March. Meshed. I agree to the retention of Smyth untU
20th October next.
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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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