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Coll 28/51 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Treaty negotiations: Article regarding private claims.’ [7r] (13/357)
The record is made up of 1 file (176 folios). It was created in 13 Apr 1932-28 Dec 1936. It was written in English and French. 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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was made to exclude from consideration ab initio their war
Claims against His Majesty’s Government and in particular one
such claim known as the Atychides claim.
5. This claim relates to a steamship known as the ’’Hamadan”
or ’’Kara leniz”, the property of a naturalised Persian subject,
of Ottoman origin, named Socrates Atychides. This vessel was
detained at Bombay, prior to the outbreak of war 1 with Turkey in
1914, on the ground that, notwithstanding a purported transfer
to the Persian flag, it was really an Ottoman vessel. The
ship was subsequently condemned as a prize by the High Court
of Bombay. This case has formed the subject of examination
in your oifice in the past, in 1918, when an opinion dated 21st
December, 1918 was written by Dr. Pearce Higgins, and also in
1932 ana 1933, when the merits of the claim were discussed
among various Government departments, in connexion with the
expressed indention of the Persian Government to bring the
claim before the League of Nations and in connexion with a
request from M. Atychides for an interview with His Majesty’s
Ambassador in Paris (see your letter of 2nd May, 1933). A
copy oi Lr. Pearce Higgins' opinion is enclosed for convenience
of reference, together with a memorandum of 21st September,
1934, by Mr. Ritchie, and a diary (prepared in this department)
of the events, as far as at present known, which led up to the
vessel's condemnation as a prize in 1914. To this diary is
attached as an annex a list of six points in regard to which
the course of events is somewhat obscure and about which 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.
have recently been asked semi-officially to
endeavour to obtain further information. It will be seen
from these documents that two principal points arise;
(a) whether the Bombay authorities were justified in detaining
the vessel prior to the outbreak of war with Turkey and
(b) whether the vessel was thereafter rightly condemned as a
prize.
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Correspondence and other papers relating to the drafting of an article for the Anglo-Persian Treaty, concerning private claims made against the British and Persian Governments. The correspondence concerns: the exclusion from the article of British Indian claims; an agreement by both parties to not pursue certain claims arising from the ‘exceptional circumstances obtaining during the [First] world war’ (f 155); general treaty instructions from 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. , sent to the British Legation in Tehran; details of an historic claim for approximately £900,000, made against the British Government by a Persian subject named Socrates Atychides, whose ship, the Kara Deniz , was detained and declared as prize at Bombay [Mumbai] in 1914; a printed copy of a general review of British claims against Persia, prepared by Hugh Ritchie, formerly of the Foreign Office. Ritchie’s review includes indexes to supplementary volumes (not included in the file) entitled Persia (Legation Claims) , Persia: Consulate Claims (Peace-Time), and Persia: Consulate Claims (War-Time) (ff 22-51). The indexes are lists of British claimants.
Principal correspondents in the file include: John Charles Walton and John Gilbert Laithwaite of 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. ; George William Rendel and Christopher Frederick Ashton Warner of the Foreign Office; W R L Trickett of HM’s Treasury.
The file contains a single paragraph of French text: a draft of the claims article submitted by the Government of Persia (f 168).
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (176 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 178; 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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- Title
- Coll 28/51 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Treaty negotiations: Article regarding private claims.’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:91r, 97r:124v, 128r:154v, 156r:167v, 169r:172v, 178r:178v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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