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'REPORT on the Working of the Line of Communication AND ON THE Withdrawal of the British Military Mission IN EAST PERSIA, 1919-20. GENERAL STAFF INDIA. [30v] (67/168)
The record is made up of 1 volume (87 folios). It was created in 1921. 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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APPENDIX- (I).
Cost of Boads.
Total cost of roads and tracks from October 1918 till completion of
withdrawal is :—
Krans 10,160,410, plus R26,719.
This splits up into expenditure on main roads from Meshed to Duzdap
including to Eobat, Krans 97,43,068, plus E26,719 on tracks, mcludmg both
routes to Sistan, track from Eobal to Eui Kha and an amount of Krans
12,600 spent between Meshed and Bajgiran, Krans 4,17,o42.
The amount spent on main roads is further divisible into construction
and maintenance. Separate headings in expenditure were “O 1 , kept owing to
some gangs doing both works and there being insufficient staff to maintain the
necessary registers.
It may be said that the road was through for traffic on its present line on
the 1st May 1920, though after that date there were still gangs completing gaps
in soling and gravelling the same, a fact which brings the average maintenance
higher than it should be, but it is impossible to allocate exactly t he “
gangs up to the 1st May 1920 ; expenditure was Krans 79,08,006 pl«s B20,419.
A further sum of approximate Krans 9,00,000 was spent after the 1st May in
settling bills for expenditure incurred prior to that date; this brings the total
up to Krans 88,08,006.
Of this, original works cost approximately Krans 84,87,310, plus E20,41&
maintenance, Krans 3 , 70=696.
Expenditure after the 1st May 1920, exclusive of the Krans 9,00,000
debitable to settling bills for work prior to the 1st May totals up to Krans
9,35,062 and R6,300, and must be considered as maintenance, though, as
explained above, it is not an accurate figure.
Average monthly maintenance per mile approximately is as follows :—
(Maintenance can be said to begin from December 1919.)
December 1919 maintenance 111*5 Krans per milel
J anuary
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
1920
8-r8
144-2
163*6
116-7
431*7
373*3
354*6
302^3
162*6
45 T
580 milesv
564 miles..
287 miles.
The road may be said to start directly north of Birjand from the 1st October
1920 and south from the 1st November, though, as seen above, maintenance'
expenses were kept very low after.
To maintain the road m its condition of the 1st September should cost
approximately Krans 6,00,000 per annum, exclusive of salary of supervising
staff.
Supervising staff should be an engineer and three subordinates, each
with a car.
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The volume is titled Report on the Working of the Line of Communication and on the Withdrawal of the British Military Mission in East Persia, General Staff India . The volume is marked confidential and was printed in Delhi by Superintendent Government Printing, India, in 1921.
The report is from the General Officer Commanding, Baluchistan District to the Chief of the General Staff; the report contains preliminary remarks on 'The withdrawal of the troops of the British Military Mission at and beyond Meshed, and of the Lines of Communication'. There follows the substantive report from the Inspector-General of Communications, East Persia, Duzdap to the General Staff, Baluchistan District, Quetta. This report is divided into two parts:
- Part I - 'A brief report on the working and organization of the Line of Communications, East Persia, in April 1920'
- Part II - 'The withdrawal' which has the following sub-sections: general; supply and transport services (including some special points for consideration); medical; ordnance; works; posts and telegraphs; vetinary.
The report is accompanied by nine maps:
- 'APPENDIX 1. SKETCH MAP SHOWING POSITION OF POST AND COMBINED OFFICES IN EAST PERSIA' (folio 10)
- 'APPENDIX 1. L. OF C.E.P. INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM' (folio 12)
- 'APPENDIX 2. AREA ON THE EAST PERSIA L. OF C. COMMON TO RAIDING (folio 15)
- 'APPENDIX 1. GRAPHIC MAP ILLUSTRATING THE NORMAL SOURCES FROM WHICH THE TROOPS IN EAST PERSIA WERE SUPPLIED AND THE CONTINUOUS MOVEMENTS BY WHICH THE SUPPLIES WERE NORMALLY DISTRIBUTED TO THE FORCE AT MESHED AND TO THE GARRISONS OF POSTS ON L. OF C.' (folio 18)
- 'APPENDIX 1. LINES OF COMMUNICATION EAST PERSIA' (folio 33)
- 'APPENDIX 3. DIAGRAM SHOWING POSITIONS OF TELEPHONE, TELEGRAPH AND COMBINED OFFICES IN EAST PERSIA' (folio 35)
- 'COLUMNS AND CONVOYS WOKRING IN CONNECTION WITH WITHDRAWAL FROM EAST PERSIA' (folio 55)
- 'DAYS AFTER ZERO' (folio 62)
- 'PLAN showing ORGANIZATION OF LINE OF COMMUNICATIONS (ADMINISTRATIVE AND DEFENCE TROOPS) (folio 77)
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- 1 volume (87 folios)
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The volume is arranged in three parts: preliminary remarks; part I; and part II.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 78; 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.
Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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