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File 2626/1905 ‘Persia:- Military Attaché at Meshed’ [259v] (523/532)
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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5. We propose that the pay of the appointment should be pay of rank plus
Es. 450 per mensem staff pay and exchange compensation allowance, and travel
ling allowance on the scale allowed to political officers stationed in Persia. This
remuneration is, in our opinion, more suitable than granting a separate local
allowance and by no means too high having regard to the high cost of living in
Persia.
6 In asking for sanction to the creation of the appointment of a military
attache at Meshed on the terms proposed, we would strongly urge that His
Majesty’s Government should bear half the cost, with reference to the principle
laid down in your predecessor’s Political despatch No. 107, dated the 15th
November 1901, that an even division of charges and not a separation of spheres
of interest is to regulate expenditure in the maintenance of Consular and
diplomatic establishments in Persia, which principle, we consider, may fairly be
applied in the present case. The officer appointed will be a military attache at
the consulate, and His Majesty’s Government will participate in the advantages
which will accrue from the collection of intelligence regarding Russian military
activity and resources in the regions bordering on Persia. A line can hardly be
drawn between military and political affairs in Persia, and it is evident that the
information collected would be of an immediate political as well as of potential
military value We trust, therefore, that His Majesty’s Government will agree
to an equal division of the cost between the Imperial Government and the
Government of India.
We have the honour to be,
Sir,
Tour most obedient, humble Servants,
(Signed) E. EG. LAW.
E. E. ELLES.
H. ERLE RICHARDS.
J. P. HEWETT.
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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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