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File 1508/1905 Pt 3 'Bahrain: postal arrangements; mails; post office' [118r] (83/180)
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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Name and Date.
Subject.
Sir N. O’Conor, No. 610, otli September
lOOo.
Trans. Mr. Crow’s, No. 51.
Annex 1.
Sir N. 0 Conor to the Marquess of Lansdowne.
No. 610. Constantinople,
Mv Lord, 5th September 1905.
With reference to ray Despatch No. 554 ot the 11th ultimo, I
have the honour to forward to your Lordship herewith copy ot a
Despatch from His Majesty’s Consul at Basra on the subject of the
proposed Hassa mail service.
I have, &c.,
Ilis Majesty’s Principal N. R. O’Conor.
Secretary of State for Eoreign Affairs.
Annex 2.
Extract from Mr. Crow’s Despatch No. 51, dated 10th August 1905.
In the course of conversation with the Yali yesterday I touched on
the question of the llassa mail service, and expressed my willingness
to put forward any proposal his Excellency had to make lor the
consideration of the British India Company.
The Yali said that what he wanted was a regular service irom Basra
to Oieir on the Hassa coast and vice versa. I suggested that he should
avail himself of the present fortnightly service, Bushire-Bahrem, and
arrange with the British India Company for the extension ot this
service to Ojeir for the purpose. The Vali asked me to submit this
proposal, and to enquire what the cost would be to the Irakis i
G °According to the latest Confidential Chart prepared by the
“Investigator” in 1901-02, the coast has been surveyed to within
81 miles °in a due north line from Ojeir. The approximate distance,
according to present
soundings
Measurements of the depth of a body of water.
, for a steamship from Ojen to the
Bahrein anchorage is 40 miles. The channel would have to be uuuei
for tbe protection of steamers as the place is full ot reels.
I enclose a copy of the letter which 1 have written to the Agents of
the British India Company, and have sent a copy oi it to India.
S. 31.
C
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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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