File 3414/1906 Pt 4 'Persia: Arabistan telegraphs; Mohammerah-Ahwaz-Borasjun line' [‎9r] (22/382)

shall belong entirely to the Persian Government. By local traffic
is meant messages originating at one Persian station and termi
nating at another Persian station.
AKTICLE IX.
As regards International messages originating or terminating
in Persia, the Persian Government shall receive two-thirds of the
receipts of all bond fide terminal messages.
And as regards transit messages, as this line is merely an
alternative one to that now existing between Tehran and Bushire,
the arrangement already made, as detailed in Article VIII of the
1872 Convention, will remain as at present. State telegrams
passing between the Government of India and the British Minister
at Tehran shall be sent at half rates.
ARTICLE X.
In view of the erection of the new line and of the increase of
telegraph stations in Eastern Persia, and in order to facilitate
intercourse with them, the Indo-European Telegraph Department
shall place an additional wire along the existing line between
Tehran and Kashau, and the expenses of procuring, transporting,
and putting up this wire will be borne by the Persian Government
in the manner provided by Articles II and IV of this Convention.
ARTICLE XL
The following Articles of the Telegraph Convention of 1872
shall apply to this line, viz.Articles VI, VIII, IX, XI,
XIII, XV, and XVII.
ARTICLE XII.
This Convention shall remain in force until the 1st January,
1925, or for such longer period as the debt due by Persia for the
cons dion of the line remains unpaid, and at such date it may
if necessary be renewed or revised, but it shall be competent for
the British Government at any time before the expiry of this
Convention, on giving six months’ notice, to hand over the line in
its existing condition to the Persian Government, and to withdraw
its officers and employes from the country, ceasing from that date
to have any further connection with this Persian Telegraph. But