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File 3632/1912 ‘Telegraphs – Wireless in Persia’ [295v] (595/640)
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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322
transferred to the latter in accordance with the first paragraph of Article 1 of
the present Convention, the sum of 8,0001. sterling, already paid on account
of the Company by the Imperial Telegraph Administration, in pursuance of
the aforesaid contract of the 8/20 February 1878, shall be returned to the
Telegraph Department in conformity with the agreement which shall take
place to that effect between that Department and the Eastern Telegraph
Company.
Article 3.
The Company engages to transmit by the Constantinople, Tenedos, and
Salonica cables:—
1st. At half-rates all the international official messages of the Imperial
Government.
2nd. And without charge all the interior official messages to the extent of
30,000 words per month. Beyond this number the Government shall pay to
the Company half-rates for the excess.
All service messages, both of the Imperial Telegraph Administration and
of the Company, shall be transmitted free of charge.
Article 4.
These cables shall be similar to those already laid by the Company in the
Ottoman Archipelago, and will be composed of three types :—
1 st. Shore end.
2nd. Intermediate.
3rd. Deep sea.
The cable shall have a minimum insulation resistance of 1,000 meghoms
per nautical mile, and the conduct!bility shall not exceed the maximum of
12 ohms, per mile.
The electrostatic capacity shall be 0'3 microfarads per mile. These tests
shall be taken immediately after the laying.
Article 5.
The Imperial Ottoman Government engages on its part to continue
immediately, and at its own cost, the aerial line from Koun Kale to the station
of the Company at Besika.
Article 6 .
The tax due to the Constantinople-Tenedos-Salonica cable is fixed at
6 francs to be divided equally between the Imperial Ottoman Government
and the Company.
In regard to the taxes proportioned to the other cables above-mentioned,
whether interior or international, their portion and division shall be
subsequently determined by mutual agreement between the two contracting
parties.
Article 7.
The Company undertakes to lay the above-mentioned cables, and to
re-open them for correspondence, except in case of force majeure, with a
maximum delay of three months to date from the day of the ratification of
the present Convention.
Article 8 .
The Company shall have the right of having telegraph offices at Con
stantinople, Tenedos, Besika, Salonica, Vallona, Volo, at the landing places
of the cables in the straits as well as at any intermediate station between
Yolo and Vallona where the Company shall deem it necessary. These
offices shall be served in Turkish and foreign languages by employes
belonging to the Company, chosen and paid by it.
In each of these offices the Imperial Ottoman Government shall have the
right, if it deems necessary, of nominating an official charged with watching
over the transmission of the correspondence.
The service of the counter, as well as that of the delivery of the messages
in the offices of Constantinople, Salonica, and in the different other localities
where there already exists an office of the Imperial Government, shall be
made by the employes of the Imperial Ottoman Telegraph Administration.
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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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- IOR/L/PS/10/298
- Title
- File 3632/1912 ‘Telegraphs – Wireless in Persia’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:68v, 70r:80v, 86v:317v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence