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File 1508/1905 Pt 3 'Bahrain: postal arrangements; mails; post office' [‎107r] (61/180)

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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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^o- I2 57 > ^^ted Bushire, the 5th (received 18th) June 1906. /v^
From Captain A. P. Trevor, I.A., First Assistant Resident, Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , L. 2 ' JUL i
^' 0 ^ IR Louis Dane, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., Secretary to the Government of India\ajp
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• re ^ erence ^ 1S office letter No. 65, dated 23rd February 1906, regard
ing the arrangements for the conveyance of the Turkish mails between Busrah
and Hasaand Katif, I have the honour to forward, for the information of the Gov-
No. 289 , dated 28 th May 1906 . ernment of Indiana copy of the letter cited
r, , A „ . in the margin, which I have received from
the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrein, on the subject.
No. 289, dated the 28th May 1906.
From— Captain F. B. Prideaux, I.A., Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrein,
To Major P. Z. Cox, C.I.E., 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. .
I have the honour to address you in compliance with your request for a
report on the subject of the Turkish Government’s arrangements for the conveyance
of their mails between Busrah and the “ Sanjak of Nejd” (Hasa and Katif).
2. I am informed that the system of sending the mails by British Mail
Steamer between Busrah and Bahrein and by sailing boat between Bahrein and
the two ports of the Sanjak was instituted at an early period after the conquest
of the Province in 1871, and that the selection of the forwarding Agent in
Bahrein to deal witli the mails has been generally left to the Governor (Mutessarif)
of the Sanjak. The Kaimmakam of Katif is the Mutessarif’s subordinate ; there
is not therefore much official correspondence between Katif and Busrah ; in fact
only one department in Busrah, that of the Ottoman Public Debt (Dyun Umumiya),
is believed to have direct relations with Katif.
3. When Seyed Talib was Mutessarif, the official Postal Agent in Bahrein
was Haji Mujbil al Dhakair.
Subsequently, the Agent was a Mulla of a Mosque in Manama, named
Yusuf bin Abdul Rahman. The persons to whom the Bahrein Agent addressed
and from whom he received mails—sent under special precautions in sailing boats,
which were also allowed to carry passengers—were ordinarily the Mudir of Ojair
for Hasa mails, and the Mudir of the “ Dyun Umumiya” in Katif.
4. Some 18 months ago the Postmaster of the British Indian Sub-Post
Office in Bahrein discovered that the Turkish Agent, with a view to reducing
expenses, had commenced to despatch the mails (both official and private) in
packages by Parcel Post, and it was also suspected that he was even collect
ing letters in Bahrein for inclusion in the same packages. It was pointed out
to the same Agent that these practices were contraventions of the Postal Rules
and he then attempted to book a package as cargo with the Mail Steamer
Agents, but was refused shipment on the contents becoming known.
5. It is believed, after this, that for some weeks the Postal Agent sent and
received mails under the guise of personal baggage of travellers, who were
specially paid for the service, but this procedure did not remain long in force,
and for about the last 9 months, or more, no articles for Busrah from Hasa and
vice versd have been known to have travelled by the Bahrein route, though
official letters between Katif and Busrah are still registered and dealt with. It
seems probable that the plan of sending mails overland between Koweit and
Hasa was calculated to be cheaper and attended with less division of respon
sibility than the Bahrein-Ojair arrangement, and that the new system was
brought into effect chiefly inconsequence of these considerations.
6. It is possible also that other considerations exist, in the notorious in
security of the Ojair-Hasa route and in the policy of bringing gradually all the
country between Koweit and Hasa under Turkish influence.
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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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