'MILITARY REPORT ON PERSIA. VOLUME IV, PART I.' [56r] (116/168)
The record is made up of 1 volume (80 folios). It was created in 1922-1923. 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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103
the money for it is most unlikely to be forthcoming, it can
safely be assumed that it will remain under its present
control for at least some years to come. y
Wireless .—The only wireless station in this area; open wireless,
to international traffic is at Hen jam Island and is owned
by the Indo-European Telegraph Department. It com
municates normally with Bahrein, and only under favour
able circumstances with Bushire and Basra, owing to the
exceedingly disturbing atmospheric conditions between
these places, and to the fact that the apparatus is not of
the latest pattern. It is chiefly used by ships in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
as a means of getting messages sent by,
cable to India or Basra. The call code is y. T. H. Th§
generator is of 3 Kilowatts capacity. 4
At Bandar Abbas and Chahbar there are pack wireless
installations of small radius of action belonging to the
Royal Air Force. There are no personnel, however, of
that Force in either of the two stations, and the wireless
is reserved solely for emergency purposes for aeroplanes
which may be passing by this route.
There is telephone communication by the Indo-European ^otophone,
line between Kerman and Duzdap, with intermediate sta
tions at Bam, Fehruj, Kahurak, Dehaneh Bagln and
Duzdap. *
There is telephone communication between the various
stations on the Kerman-Bandar Abbas line. This is used
mostly in connection with the up-keep of the lines. In
addition to the telegraph station at Baft there are several
telephone stations subdividing sections which are too long.
It is just possible to speak through from Kerman to Bandar
Abbas over this line.
The follow’ing are likely signalling
Chahbar and Geh in Persian Baluchistan
stations
between;
Visual Sipual*
ling, Persian
Baluchistan.
Long distance stations. — (Vide Sketch Map.),
Chahbar. _ j l
Pirigaruk Hill.
Purzak.
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The volume is entitled Military Report on Persia. Volume IV Part I. Persian Baluchistan, Kerman and Bandar Abbas. (Simla, Government Central Press, 1923). The volume was originally published in 1921.
The report contains sections on history, geography, population, climate and health, resources, military affairs, communications, and political matters. Appendices give the following information: details of nomad tribes of Kerman Province; a list of Chiefs and Headmen in Persian Baluchistan, who are in receipt of subsidies from the Indo-European Telegraph Department (IETD); statistics of natural resources; and distribution statement of the Sarhad Levy Corps on 1 July 1922. There are also seven maps (folios 75-81), entitled:
- Map accompanying Military Report on Persia Vol. IV Part I.
- Kerman and environs
- Bandar Abbas
- Diagram of Mirjawa station yard
- Diagram of Duzdap station yard
- Signalling and heliograph posts between Chahbar and Geh
- Sketch Map shewing communications between Kerman and Saidabad
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (80 folios)
- Arrangement
Includes a list of contents on folio 4; and an index on folios 67-73.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 82; 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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- 'MILITARY REPORT ON PERSIA. VOLUME IV, PART I.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:74v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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