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File 3632/1912 ‘Telegraphs – Wireless in Persia’ [136v] (277/640)
The record is made up of 1 volume (316 folios). It was created in 29 Mar 1912-27 Jul 1915. 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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4
COLOMBIA.
(SUPPLEMETARY INFORMATION.)
I. Panama to Jamaica, 1870 (West India and Panama Telegraph Company)
II. Extension and modification of concession granted to Central and South American
Telegraph Company
COREA.
j. Fusan to Yobuko, Japan (Great Northern Telegraph Company), 1883
II. Convention for construction by China of telegraph lines for Corea, 1885
III. Supplementary Convention with Japan in consequence of construction
competing iand line between China and Corea, 1885
IV. Supplementary Convention for construction by China of telegraph line in Corea,
1886 - * - - ' " *
V. Convention by which China sanctions construction by Corea of telegraph line
between Seoul and I usan, 188i
VI. Convention with China regarding telegraph line to Gensan (Wonsan), 1891
VII. Connection of Corean and Chinese land lines
CII1. Agreement under which Japan takes over control of Post, Telegraph, and
Telephone services in Corea, 1905
of
PAOE
63
64
67
67
69
69
70
71
73
75
CUBA AND PORTO RICO.
International Ocean (now worked by Western Union), West India and Panama and Cuba
Submarine Telegraph Companies.\
I. Cables from Cuba to United States
II. Modification of No. I, 1867 -
HI. Cuba to Jamaica and Porto Rico to Jamaica, 18<0, 18<4, and 18<8
IV. Santiago de Cuba to Cienfuegos, 1875 (concession dated 1369)
V. Refusal of application to land cable from Santiago at more than one point on
coast, 1870
VI. Cables along coast of Cuba, 1895
76
78
79
82
83
84
DENMARK.
(SUPPLEM ENT ARY INFORMATION.)
Concession to Great Northern Telegraph Company in respect of proposed cable
from Denmark to Faroe and Shetland Islands, i90o
ECUADOR.
(Supplementary Information.)
[Central and South American Telegraph Company.']
Ecuador, on one hand, to Nicaragua, Colombia, and Peru, on other hand, 1882-1893 91
FRANCE.
( S U P P L E M E N T A U Y INFORMATION.)
(Eastern, Eastern Extension, Spanish Notional Submarine, French Telegraph Cable,
and West African Companies.]
I. France Algiers Malta, 1870 - - * "
II. Marseilles-Barcelona, 1874 - - - ‘ '
III. Senegal-Canary Islands-Cadiz, 1884-1885
IV. Cochin China (Saigon, near Cape St. Jacques), via Hue to Annam (Haiphong), ^
1884 - - “ ' ‘ ‘ ‘ n6
V. Obock to Perim, 1889 -
VI Concession of 1889 in respect of cables between France. Algiers, and Malta
(including agreement in respect of London-Marseilles line leased to Eastern ^
Telegraph Company) - ’ * ' ‘
VII. Convention between French Government and I rench telegraph Cable Gompain, ^ ^
1901 - ‘ " ‘
an. Sale to Freneh Government of cables of West African Company connect.ng
French Possessions on V est Coast of Africa, 190^
IX. Sale to French Government of cable between Saigon and Haiphong, 1904 - 14,
X. Franco-Dutch Convention in respect of cables to connect Indo-China with Dutch
East Indies, 1904 *
XI. Proposed cable between Mauritius and Reunion
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The volume contains correspondence and notes by British government officials about the Italian Government’s support for proposals by the British company Marconi, initially in association with the German company Telefunken, to establish a network of wireless (radio) telegraph stations in Persia. The main correspondents are ministers and senior officials at the Foreign Office and 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. in London, the Director-in-Chief of the Indo-European Telegraph Department headquarters in London, the Viceroy and Governor-General of India at Calcutta, the British Minister to Persia at Tehran (also spelt Teheran) and the British Ambassador to Russia at Petrograd [Saint Petersburg]. The correspondents discuss the harm that would be caused to the British monopoly on telegraphic installations and communications between India, Southern Persia (referred to as the British zone) and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , in the event that the Marconi Company was successful in obtaining a concession (licence) from the Persian Government, with the concurrence of the Russian Government. Included in the volume is a copy of the Marconi proposals, written in French and presented by the Italian Chargé d’Affaires at Tehran to the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1914. At the end of the volume is a copy of the General Post Office publication ‘Cable communication: further print of Concessions Granted in Foreign Countries accompanying memorandum of 13th October 1899, comparing General Forms of License for landing cables in the United Kingdom and various Licenses or Concessions for landing cables in British Possessions or Foreign Countries’, printed in October 1905.
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- 1 volume (316 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 3632 (Telegraphs – Wireless in Persia) consists of one volume.
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The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 318; 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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- File 3632/1912 ‘Telegraphs – Wireless in Persia’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:68v, 70r:80v, 86v:317v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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