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File 1508/1905 Pt 3 'Bahrain: postal arrangements; mails; post office' [‎105r] (57/180)

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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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27 MJGiSOBjjj iro. 1526 of 1906 .
^^ritI bS' iResideney and Consulate-General,
Bushire, 5th July 1906•
Prom
Captain A. P* Trevor,
First Assistant Resident
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
To
Sir Louis Dane, K.C.I.E., C.S.I.,
Secretary to the Government of India
in the Foreign Department, Simla.
Sir,
With reference to the correspondence ending with
my letter Ro. 1257, dated 5th June 1906, on the subject of
the Hassa Mail, I have the honour to state, for the in
formation of the Government of India, that His Majesty f s
Consul at Busreh informs me that he can take no further
action in the matter at present, as Mukhlis Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , who
fathered the project has been dismissed, and the Turks seem
satisfied with the Koweit Postal arrangements. Mr. Crow
adds that if His Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople
desires him to move any more in the matter. His Excellency
will no doubt send instructions.
I have the honour to be.
Sir,
Your most obedient servant.
fSd.) A. P. Trevor.
for 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. .

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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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