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File 523/1912 Pt 1 'Persia: Imperial Bank: mint contract' [125r] (245/386)
The record is made up of 1 item (195 folios). It was created in 1912-1917. It was written in English. 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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CONFIDENTIAL
RUSSIA
Sir G. Buchanan to Sir Edward Grey.—{Received June 14, 1D35 p.m.)
Petrogy'ad, June 14, 1915.
(No. 348.) R. (June 14, 8'30 p.m.)
YOUR telegram No. 131 of 12th June to Tehran.
I have received two aides-memoire from Russian Government to the following
effect:—
“ Russian Bank, like Imperial Bank of Persia, is in urgent need of silver coin, and
it is most important that question of importation of silver into Persia should be
definitely settled without further delay.
“ First thing required is that the managers of the two banks in Tehran should
agree together on a draft contract to be submitted to Persian Government. Manager
of Imperial Bank of Persia has so far objected to entering into discussion of such a
contract on the ground that it is necessary in the first instance to ascertain how it
would be viewed by Persian Government. Russian Government considers that Mr.
Wood should be pressed to proceed immediately with drawing up of such a contract in
consultation with manager of Russian Bank on lines of understanding arrived at
between the two banks in London in 1914, and they ask for intervention of His
Majesty’s Government in that sense.”
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to a minting contract for the Imperial Bank of Persia.
Included in this part is the Imperial Bank of Persia's concession to mint and the anticipated infringement by the Russian Government, as well as the impact of the February Revolution 1917.
The part of this volume includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 item (195 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 523 (Persia) consists of 1 volume, IOR/L/PS/10/224. The volume is divided into 2 parts with parts 1 and 2 comprising one volume.
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- Title
- File 523/1912 Pt 1 'Persia: Imperial Bank: mint contract'
- Pages
- 3r:195v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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