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File 3852/1912 Pt 2 'Persia. Conditions in South Persia. German Documents' [‎290v] (212/280)

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The record is made up of 1 item (139 folios). It was created in 12 Jul 1912-30 Jan 1917. 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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CTyioyCL'yidu'fyi jyoyyi the Byitish htyst Assistuyit Resident of
Bushire, Captain L. Biydwood, to the Officiating Secyetayy to the
Goveynment of India in the Foyeign Depaytment, dated October
5th, 1913, with two enclosuyes: 1. Lettey fyom the Resident of
Bushiye, Siy P. Cox, to Siy Edwayd Gyey, 2. Memoyandum fyom the
Commeycial Advisev to the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. of Bushiye, II. C. Chpik.
Stamped:
British Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
Receipt
No.
Date 30. Oct. 1913
Peysian Gulf.
No. 3048, dated Bushire, the 5th (received 13th) October 1913.
From — Captain L. Birdwood, I. A., First Assistant Resident
(in the absence of the Resident),
To — The Officiating Secretary to the Government of India
in the Foreign Department.
With reference to this office letter No. 553, dated February
nth, 1913, I have the honour to forward for the information
of the Government of India, a copy of the marginally noted
despatch, which Sir Percy Cox has addressed to His Majesty's
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, together with a Memo
randum by the Commercial Adviser to this Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. on the
subject of the insufficiency for the needs of British trade of
transport animals on the road between Bushire and Ispahan,
and the utility of more precise statistics of caravan traffic
from the South to the interior, on the several main caravan
routes.
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No. 14 — Commercial, dated Bushire, the 28 th September 1913
From — Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Cox, K. C. S. I., C. I.E.,
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Consul-General for Fars, &c.
To—The Right Honourable Sir Edward Grey, Bart, K. G.,
M. P., His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for.
Foreign Affairs, Foreign Office, London.
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The second part of the volume (folios 185 to 324) concerns conditions of trade in South Persia and German documents relating to this. Copies of two books are present in the volume: ' La Perse et la Guerre Européenne par un Patriote Persan, Édition de la Librairie Nouvelle de Lausanne, 1917' and ' Behind the Veil in Persia: English Documents, C.L. van Langenhuysen, Amsterdam 1917'. Other visual items of interest in Part 2 include a 'Map of Persia' (folio 299) depicting the Russian and British zones of influence along with project railways, frontier lines and provincial boundaries.

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