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Coll 28/26 ‘Relations with H.M.G. Importation of Stores for I.E.T.D. Staff’ [‎42r] (83/277)

The record is made up of 1 file (136 folios). It was created in 28 May 1931-13 May 1932. 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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authorities eaoh e^se in which they unreasonably excluee
an article frora the lists submitted to them. In such oases
the omits of proving that tixe article is ^nccesnaire au bon
fonotionnement w lies on the Imperial aaA Internationa!
CORuouni oat ions Company*
6# With re^Rrd to the cases that have already arisen
(other then the starting cartrid^s} I am eommunicat in*<
in accordance with my instructions, with the local
telegrapha officials* ut I venture to >oint out th t
the nearest official with general authority is at K«*rachi
and I sajuMit oosuauniaate with him, throug^i the political
Kesident at Bushire, any laore easily or quickly thm the
London Office of the Uoapany could h^ve done*
6* A ftirther consideration is th^ t the attitude of
the Persian authorities h s recently become more helpful,
partioul rly in the question of the private imports* .p rt
from the starting c rtridges, of which they rliaost oertainly
mistook the meining, tionm of the excluded articles can be
held, in default of further explanations, to have beet
excluded quite unreason* bly : though the exclusion of so ae,
auch s m tehee m& methylated spirits, is rather triviril
and of others, such an , ! ma, rather ludicrous. To eipb rk
upon an abstract dlssusslsa of the jneaning of the relevant
paragraph, without any means of insisting upon the inter
pretation that suits us, would I am sure, merely irritate
these authorities to no purpose.
7* Co for ?s the points in Lord ending 9 s telegram

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Correspondence relating to food and supply shortages suffered by staff of the Indo-European Telegraph Department manning telegraph stations along the Persian coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The file’s principal correspondents include 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. (John Gilbert Laithwaite), Imperial and International Communications Limited (J O Stevens Perry), the British Legation at Tehran (Charles Dodd, Lacy Baggallay, Reginald Hervey Hoare), and the Foreign Office (Charles William Baxter, George William Rendel). The shortages were a result of the introduction by the Persian Government of a Trade Monopoly Law, banning the import of goods into Persia without goods of equivalent value being exported in the opposite direction. The correspondence focuses on the wording of the Telegraphs Agreement under negotiation between the British and Persian Governments, classification of official stores, and the issue of import licenses for supplies. The file includes lists of the private stores (ff 119-122) and official stores (ff 109-112) for staff of Imperial and International Communications Limited, based at telegraph stations in Bushire, Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], Jask, and Charbar [Chabahar].

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1 file (136 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 138; 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.

A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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Coll 28/26 ‘Relations with H.M.G. Importation of Stores for I.E.T.D. Staff’ [‎42r] (83/277), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/12/3423, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100043624983.0x000056> [accessed 20 April 2024]

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