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Coll 28/51 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Treaty negotiations: Article regarding private claims.’ [‎25v] (50/357)

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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Evacuation of Persian towns (7 cases) : 237,789-75 krans.
Murders—
Aga Ferrukh Khan : 30,000 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. .
Consulate Sowar In the East India Company army and later Indian Army, an ordinary native cavalryman or mounted cavalryman. : 25,000 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. .
Postal losses : £4 195. Oo?.
Resht disturbances (1920-21) : 62.620 krans.
Theft (peculation by Deputy-Governor) : 2,400 krans.
Tribal raid : 2,352 krans.
18. The above claims placed in category (a) yield a total of peace-time
claims of 2,083,368-27 krans, £2,214 85 . 11^., and 111,282-5-9 rupees—and of
war-time claims of 787,160-90 krans, £6,273-9-0, and 56.990 rupees—or a
combined total in the 202 claims of 2,870,529-17 krans, £8,487 175. lid., and
168,272-5-9 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. . Highway robberies form the greater part, it being held by
the consuls that it was the plain duty of the Persian Government to safeguard
the public highways. But the figures, like those of the Legation claims, can only
be regarded as provisional. There are a number of weak spots. Interest at an
excessive rate is sometimes claimed—the claim for barracks construction in 1914
(the claimant, Mr. Haycock, now seems to be dead), e.g., is more than five times
the original debt. Burglaries we appear to have decided in 1925 not to claim for,
(E 3485/3485/34 though seemingly on grounds of policy and as likely to prejudice other and more
oM 925 y) 034 important claims. Thefts, our Legation once told the Persian Government in
1923, might elude the vigilance of the police. Peculation by a Persian Deputy-
(See para. 47 .) Governor seems a matter he was personally liable for. Civil riots at Lingah in
1899, and at Bushire in 1909 (the year of the revolution), raise questions of
liability in international law; and in the former case the promise to defray
British losses came from a local Governor now dead. Customs losses, many
Governments deny liability for. The claims for evacuations of Persian towns in
war-time include one for 180.000 krans by Messrs. Ziegler for the removal of
their entire establishment from Sultanabad in 1921, which, on the facts shown,
has but small prospect of success.
19. It cannot be said either that the allocation of claims by the respective
consuls to category {a) has been performed with any great regard to the terms of
Chapter XXII of the Consular Instructions, to which their attention was
specially directed by the Legation in its circular of 1924. Some of the claims
placed in this category are well supported by evidence; some are imperfectly
supported; some are backed by no evidence except the consul’s own statement of
the facts. There is a wide range. In the volume Consulate Claims, in which the
various claims are set out in detail chronologically, analysis has been made of the
evidence furnished in each claim under the heads—
( 1 ) The claimant’s original representation.
( 2 ) The evidence of witnesses.
(3) The representations made to the local Administration.
(4) The notifications made to His Majesty’s Legation.
(5) The sworn depositions of the claimants.
It will be seen that in most cases we are not furnished with complete
documentary evidence on these points.
20. There are also manifest differences of view among the consuls, both as
regards offences for which the Persian Government may be deemed liable, and the
grounds on which claims may be included in category (a). One return excludes
looting of caravanserais as approximating to burglaries, which it also excludes;
returns from elsewhere include both. One return excludes claims where no
answer can be traced from the local authorities to representations made to them;
other returns include claims wherever due notification was made to the local
authorities. One return excludes claims because the robbers came from without
the consul’s district; other returns include claims whatever the local jurisdiction.
At Isfahan the consul in 1925 required many claimants to furnish statutory
declarations in respect of past events before including them in category (a)\ if
they failed they went into category (b) or (c); most other consuls did not make
this requirement. At Shiraz, where the consul w T as similarly exacting,
Messrs. Ziegler, who have more claims than any other firm, furnished at a late
hour, after the returns had been made up, a comprehensive affidavit which might

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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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