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'File No. II/12 Foreign Dept Memoranda of Information re: affairs in Persia and Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf. Jan '09 --' [‎49r] (97/178)

The record is made up of 1 volume (87 folios). It was created in 1 Feb 1909-19 Jan 1914. 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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kept entirely free from responsibility
regard to the latter.
4. In March
With
Transmission through
His Britannic Majesty’s
Consul, Seistan, of tele
graphic messages from
Persian subjects to their
Government.
last, His Britannic
Majesty* s Consul,
Seistan, asked the
British Minister at
Tehran for general
instructions regarding
the transmission through the Consulate of tele
graphic messages from Persian subjects to their
Government. Major Kennion was of opinion
that to withhold facilities for sending telegrams
through the British Consulate so seriously
diminished in the eyes of the Seistanis the
value of our friendship as compared with that
of the Russians, that telegrams should not be
refused except in very special circumstances,
and that, if the Indo-European Telegraph
Department declined to accept telegrams on
account of their political nature, they should
be sent through the British Legation.
In a despatch, dated the 20th April 1909,
Sir George Barclay replied that although there
was no rule in the Indo-European Telegraph
Department prohibiting the acceptance of
telegrams from a Persian subject to his
Government, and presumably this was also
true in the case of the signallers of the
Indian Telegraph Department employed on the
Seistan line, he considered it undesirable that
such telegrams should pass through the channel
of His Majesty’s Consulate and the Tehran
Legation. He accordingly instructed the
Consul, Seistan, to refuse to undertake the
transmission of such messages without reference
to, and without the authorisation of, the
Minister at Tehran. His Majesty’s Minister
also requested that he might be informed of any
instance where such messages have been sent
through the Russian Consulate and Legation
in order that he might have an opportunity of
pointing out the objections to this procedure to
his Russian Colleague.
5. His Britannic Majesty’s Consul for
Seistan and Kain left
Persona . head-quarters on the
3rd April 1909, en route to summer quarters
in the Kainat.
Captain Hunter, I.M.S., has received
through M. Bravine, the official thanks of the
Russian Government for professional services
rendered to the Russian Consulate during
1908.
6. {Vide paragraph 8 of the Memo-
Exchange of telegraph, randum for A.pril
lines in Persia. 1909.) In accordance
with his instructions, dated the 17th March
1909, Sir A. ISicolson addressed an aide-
memoire to the Russian Government on the
18th March 1909 respecting telegraph lines in
Persia.

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The volume mainly comprises printed reports for each month from January to August 1909 entitled 'Memoranda of information received during the month of ... relating to affairs in Persia, and the Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. '. The memoranda are dated and despatched by the Officiating Deputy Secretary to the Government of India (L W Reynolds). Also included in the file are letters of instruction from Deputy Secretary to the Government of India to the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Kuwait, emphasising the confidential nature of the reports and with instructions on the procedure of transfer and acknowledgement to be followed by successive Political Agents. Also included in the file are letters of receipt from the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Kuwait (William Henry Irving Shakespear; Stuart George Knox; William George Grey).

Each memorandum includes a table of contents. Topics covered in the memoranda include:

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1 volume (87 folios)
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The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 89; 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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