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File 2626/1905 ‘Persia:- Military Attaché at Meshed’ [261r] (526/532)
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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[Secret*)
EncUmre to Despatch No. 170, dated 1st December 1904.
Enclosure No. 1.
No. 2874-1, dated Simla, 17th September 1904.
From Major-General H. C Sot atet? O 4 . i
(Intelligence Branch), C ' B- ’ Quarterma ster-General in India,
To-The Secretary to the Government of India, Militaky Depaktmest
SKS" 1 of *" o«~. •«*u, k„o“l am”
has been specially marked during the present year, and Lord Kitchener fully
recognising the many deficiencies of our present system of gaining intelligence 7
thinks 0 that it ll M^hTT^ ° f im P rovin ^ {t with the g least possible delay,’
Abetter system! " WG 0311 m ° St P rofitabl y be g in ^ initiation of
3. With our ever-widening interests in the Persian Empire, with Afghan
temper an uncertain quantity, with the gradual development of Russia’s power
of offence m the North, aud with the distance between the two great powers
diminishing with a steady regularity, the increased necessity for the utmost
vigilance on our part and for full and prompt information of Russian movements
Indeed T’ thG e f traor(iinai y activity of the Russians in pushing on
strategic railways, whose sole purpose it is to menace Afghanistan and India 5 is
posalf 1 ^ m HlS ExCeUenCy 8 0 P inion ’ efficient justification for the present pro-
4 We have no Consular or other recognised Agents in Central Asia •
travellers a re viewed with the greatest suspicion and openly shadowed, with the
result that we are forced to depend chiefly on unreliable, uncertain, and almost
wholly unorganised information from untrained
native agents
Non-British agents affiliated with the British Government.
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5. To attain the best results from such sources as are available and to better
the organisation and develop on sound lines our system of intelligence, His
Excellency considers the appointment of a Military Attache at Meshed a necessity,
and he trusts thatthe Government of India will accord its sanction to this proposal
Should the proposal be accepted, I am to suggest the following arrangements
regarding the pay and status of the Military Attache. Pay of rank plus staff pay
at the rate o± Rs. 250 per mensem and compensation allowance, other local and
travelling allowances to be as for political officers stationed in Persia. He would
be a member of the staff of and under the orders of the Consul-General at
but 7 0 ? ld be empowered to correspond direct, by post and telegraph
With the head of the Intelligence Branch at Simla, who, subject to the approval
°t t^e foreign Office, would give him instructions from time to time. Should
t!]- 6 London require, at any time, special enquiries made from
Meshed, the matter would be arranged through the head of the Intelligence
Branch at Simla. °
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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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