File 1508/1905 Pt 3 'Bahrain: postal arrangements; mails; post office' [96v] (40/180)
The record is made up of 1 item (91 folios). It was created in Jun 1905-Jan 1912. 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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Abdar Rahman was acting as a Turkish Postal Agent and was not giving any
trouble, the Government of India agreed that although the appointment of a
salaried postal official at Bahrain without reference to the Shaikh or ourselves
was a proceeding to which exception might well be taken, it would not be politic
under the circumstances, to take any objection to or cognizance of his presence as
long as the man confined himself to his duties and did not attempt to usurn anv
diplomatic status in regard to the Shaikh. ^
If, however, the present proposals take shape, we can no longer shut our eyes
to the appointment, and I therefore venture to suggest that if His Majesty's Gov
ernment see no objection, and if it transpires that the Vali does desire to keep a
postal officm! at Bahrain and not at Ojair, the Porte should be informed that we
shall be glad to advise the Shaikh to concur on the understanding that the agent
will confine himself strictly to his mail-forwarding duties and will under no circum
stances make any delivery of letters in Bahrain.
Some stipulation in the latter sense seems a necessary corollary to our official
recognition of the agent, otherwise there would appear to be nothing to prevent
the iurkish mail-bags being used for the despatch of postal articles between Basrah
and Bahrain to the prejudice of our own Post Office on the ground that now that
they have an official arrangement for the transmission of letters to Bahrain
it is not fair that the Turkish Post Office should be deprived of income which
should properly help to defray the transit charges of the service and the cost of
entertaining a Mail Agent at Bahrain. Having regard to the successful invasion
in recent years by the Persian Government of the privileges enioved bv us in the
British Post Office at Persian Ports, one cannot but be somewhat apprehensive
similar enterprise on the part of the Ottoman postal authorities.
T U n ^ SU , bE 1 idia r y P 0 " 1 ?*’ but one which is sure to be raised later on, and on which
1 shall be glad to have the views of Government, is as to the extent to which the
Turkish Mail Agent at Bahrain if recognized, will be entitled to fly the Ottoman
Hag. shaikh Esa would strongly object I am sure to his doing more than use it
that^tittude 7 takm8 mallS t0 ^ 110111 steamers> andI trust can be supported in
The flying of the Turkish flag by a soi-disant agent at Lingah has been a
constant source of vexation and correspondence, owing to the persistent endea
vours of the individual concerned to attempt to force his protection upon subjects
of Kuwait, Bahrain and the
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
, and to other anti-British vagaries and
I should greatly deprecate a repetition of the evil in Bahrain.
No. 32.
British Consulate,
Basrah,
g TR September 24th, 1910.
At the request of His Majesty’s Consul-General at Baghdad I have the
Baghdad, 733, August 22nd and enclos ires. honour to transmit to you the Original
ment to me, No. 733 of August 22 C lQ10 SP rplnt' 1Ce ^ nc ^ ose( ^ endorse-
for conveying the Turkish posf from’ Basrah to O^lndTi^lisT^ 86111 ^
I also enclose copies of my despatch to His Majesty’s Ambassador, my letter
Mr. Crow, 52 , August 27 th. to . tlie Postmaster-General in Bombov
Mr. Crow, 27, August 27. and a telegram from the Ambassadoi
As you are aware Suleiman V 't T ^ SU } )]eGt ’ as mai *ginally noted,
vouri ng to ascertain if he made ^he're Wed n ° Vali here - 1 am endea -
subject before his departure and will inf d ap P ll ^ atl 1 0n to his Ministry on the
If he did not apply, I thiXwe musIalS 2 J 0 " ? f the reSult of ">7 enquiries
mg the local authorities at Basrah on the subject ° f U ^ Vali bef ° re a PP r °ach-
The
Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, Bushire.
I have, etc.,
F. E. CROW.
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Part one of the volume relates to postal services in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The correspondence is between 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. and Government of India. Further correspondence, included as enclosures, is from the General Post Office in London, representatives of Gray, Mackenzie, and Company and the British India Steam Navigation Company, and numerous political and diplomatic offices in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. .
The papers cover the discussion over who and how Turkish mail is to be carried to Hassa [al-Hasa] from Basra, and an agreement with the Shaikh of Bahrain preventing him from establishing a foreign post office in his country.
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