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File 52/1912 Pt 1 'Persia Diaries' [441r] (886/900)
The record is made up of 1 volume (448 folios). It was created in 11 Dec 1911-27 Dec 1913. It was written in English and Farsi. 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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[S ecret.]
Diary of the Military Attache, Meshed, No. 46, for the week ending the 18th
November 1911.
GENERAL SUMMARY.
Communications.
Railways. Tashkent Line. Damage by hurricane. —Th .6 lin© suffered
damage estimated at 14,000 roubles in consequence of the severe hurricane at
the beginning of October. The portion most affected was between Kabul Sai
and Aktiubinsk.
Central Asian Line. Change of Chief. —According to the Turkistan News,
Engineer Eorisof, Chief of the line, has been appointed Chief of the Exploita
tion Section in the Ministry of Ways of Communication. No mention is made
of his successor.
Construction of bridges.—Three new bridges are reported to be in course
of construction between Giaurs and Baba Durmaz, their object being to
prevent inundation of the line by flood-water.
Provision of sleepers. —The management of the line has placed an order
for the supply of 532,000 sleepers for 1912.
Arys-Vyerni project. —Engineer Salmine has reached Vyerni with the
object of carrying out investigations for the line between that place and
Kurdai, and for a branch line from Yyerni to Ilitsk.
Kokand-Namangan line. —Passenger and goods traffic on this branch has
been commenced provisionally between Kokand and the Syr Darya. Passenger
carriages for the purpose have been rented from the Central Asian Line pending
the arrival of the rolling-stock of the new branch.
Waterways. Transfer to Ministry of Ways of Communication. —This
Department is considering the question of taking over all waterways in
Turkistan and of assisting in the development of steamship navigation on the
principal rivers of the country.
The decision to transfer the Amu Darya Flotilla to the Ministry of Way#
of Communication has been definitely arrived at and effect will be given to it
next spring.
Motor navigation on the Amu Darya. —The Trans-Caspian Review states
that, in addition to the motor boats which have been used this year on the
upper waters of the river by hydrometrical parties, the supply of boats of this
type both to the Frontier Guard and to private firms at Termez and Sarai is
contemplated next year.
History.
Bokhara. —The Turkistan News states that all reactionary Mullas, opposed
to the initiation of the Amir’s reforms, have been deported from Bokhara. This
is given as fresh intelligence, but it may quite possibly refer to the previous
deportations.
Outrage on Samarkand-Termez post road. —The murder, about a month
ago, of two servants of the Beg of Hissar conveying 40,000 roubles of Bokharan
government money between Derbent and Ak Bobat, and the robbery of the
specie is reported. Several Afghans, supposed to be the perpetrators, were
executed by the Bokharan authorities.
Cessation of plague in Semiryechia. —Semiryechia being now considered free
of plague, orders have been issued for the removal of quarantine and for the
withdrawal of the extra sanitary personnel.
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This volume contains copies of the weekly diary of the British Military Attaché in Meshed [Mashhad]; the weekly consular diary of Britain's Consul in Khorasan; and the weekly consular diary of the Consul for Sistan and Kain.
The reports of the Military Attaché in Meshed are divided into the following sections: Communications, Telegraphs, Navigation, Ethnography, Administration, Geography, History, Military and Resources. The Consular diaries are less formulaic and more varied in content, but all contain a political summary.
On folio 344, the volume contains a copy of an illustration that depicts the bombardment of the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad by Russian forces that took place in 1912. A translation of the Farsi poem that appears around the illustration is contained on folio 343.
The volume includes a divider which gives the year that the subject file was opened and the subject heading. This divider is placed at the front of the volume.
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- 1 volume (448 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file. The subject 52 (Persia Diaries) consists of 3 volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/209-211.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 448; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- File 52/1912 Pt 1 'Persia Diaries'
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