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File 80/1913 Pt 2 'Persia: Telegraphs' [202v] (409/818)
The record is made up of 1 volume (405 folios). It was created in 2 Aug 1919-21 Jan 1924. It was written in English and French. 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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6
arrangement which
the two Governments
and the period of: the payment of
eras far as Khanakain, according to a special
reserve to themselves to establish, to determine the mode
th6 f he ^"Engbeers to be paid by the Indian Government.
The materials which shall be furnished by the Indian Government shall be consigned
on their arrival to the hands of the Ottoman authorities, and a receipt given for them.
5 The Imperial authorities shall immediately receive orders to begin the work upon the
''“V'T^submarine^anTwhich is to meet the line above ground from Bagdad to Bussora
shall be laid as soon as possible, in order to secure simultaneous operations.
7 As soon as this line shall have been completed the Otl Oman Government shall
commence the line from Bagdad to Khanakain, for which the Indian Government equally
engages to furnish materials and Engineers on the same conditions as those which have
been stipulated for tlie line from Bussora. rai ~\ • £+i r
8 . The Sublime Porte shall take care, if need be, to employ, for the working of these lines,
persons acquainted with the English language. T j- n n i
P 9 ®A11 the despatches addressed to or coming from India shall be equally divided
between the line from Bagdad to Bussora on the one hand, and that of Khanakain on the
0tL To avoid all difficulty of execution, the application of this system of division shall be as
follows :— „ i i
All despatches coming from India shall pass by the line from Khanakain. On the other
hand, all those for India shall be sent by the line from Bagdad to Bussoia,
10 The stipulation of Article 9 shall remain in force for ten years, at the end of wnich it
can be revised by means of a new understanding between the two Governments. ^
11 The two Governments reserve to themselves the right to determine on ana. conclude a
Telegraphic Convention on the basis of the Act of Brussels, which constitutes the International
Law of lines of Electric Telegraphs.
In faith of which the Ambassador of Her Britannic Majesty and the Minister for Foreign
Affairs of His Imperial Majesty the Sultan have signed the present protocol m duplicate and
have annexed their seals.
Done at the sublime Porte the 20th day of October 1863.
1 I
VI.
Convention between Great Britain and Turkey for the establishment of Ielegraphic
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN INDIA AND THE OTTOMAN TERRITORY. SIGNED IN TLIE ENGLISH
and French Language^ at Constantinople, 3rd September 1864.1
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His
Majesty the Emperor of the Ottomans, being desirous to establish between their respective
States telegraphic communications, by means of which India, connected by a submarine cable
with the Ottoman territory at the'mouth of the Shat-el-Arab, will be in telegraphic
communication with Turkey, and consequently, with all the other States of Europe, have
agreed to conclude a Telegraphic Convention, and with that object have named as their
Plenipotentiaries, that is to say, Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, a Member of -^ er
Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order
of the Bath, and Her Majesty’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the sublime
Porte. . . ,
And His Majesty the Emperor of the Ottomans, His Highness Mahomed Emm All lasiia,
Minister for Foreign Affairs, decorated with the Imperial Orders of the Osmanie of the
Medjidie, and of Merit of the first class in brilliants, Grand Cross of several Foreign Orders,
who, after having communicated to each other their full powers, found in good and due form,
have agreed upon the following Articles : —
Article I. The Ottoman Government will continue, at its own cost, to the mouth of the
Shat-el-Arab, the main telegraphic line of Asia now existing between Scutari of Constantinople
and Bagdad, and will connect the said main lines in the direction of Khanakain, with the
Persian land lines which communicate with the submarine cable at Bushire.
The maintenance and repairs of the said Ottoman lines will be at the charge of the
Ottoman Administration.
* On 9tli December 1863, an additional article was added to the protocol, stipulating that instead of
dividing the traffic equally between the Bussora and Khanakain lines, messages should be forwar e
indifferently by either line, and that payment should be calculated on the mean between 375 and 89 miles, e
distances between Bagdad and Bussora, and Bagdad and Khanakain respectively, so long as both lines are
kept in efficient working order,
t Ratifications exchanged at Constantinople, 31st October 1864.
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The volume comprises one part discussing the administration of the Persian telegraph lines.
The volume contains correspondence, minutes, notes, and telegrams regarding the restoration of the 1913 agreements between the Telegraph Department of the British Government and the Persian Minister of Post and Telegraphs for the reorganization of the Arabistan Telegraph Lines.
The volume also includes documents on the financial obligations of the British, Indian and Persian Government, correspondence on the Persian control over the telegraph line between Meshed [Mashhad, Iran] and Seistan [Sistan region, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan], and on the administration of the offices in Abadan and Mohammerah to be transferred to Persia.
The principal correspondents are the Eastern Telegraph Company Limited, the Foreign Office, the 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. , the Colonial Office, the Indo-European Telegraph Department, 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. , His Majesty's Minister in Tehran, the British Legation in Tehran, and the High Commissioner for Iraq.
The volume contains two copies of the 'Map to illustrate the telegraph lines of the Indo-European Telegraph Department and Connected System' (folios 199 and 312), and 'A collection of Conventions and Agreements relating to Telegraphs in Turkey in Asia, Persia, the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Mekran', 1916 (folios 200-217).
The final part of the volume contains telegrams mentioning incidents caused by 'Afghan raiders' to the Seistan-Meshed telegraph line, near to the borders with Afghanistan, in 1923.
The volume comprises part 2. This includes a divider which gives the subject and part number, year the subject file was opened, subject heading, and list of correspondence references contained by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
There is a document partly written in French within the volume, minutes of a meeting held at the British Legation in Gulhek [Tehran].
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (405 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 80 consists of three volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/325-327. The volumes are divided into 4 parts, with parts 1 and 2 comprising the first two volumes, and parts 3 and 4 comprising the third volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 407; 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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