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Coll 28/51 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Treaty negotiations: Article regarding private claims.’ [‎36v] (72/357)

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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transmit it direct to the Foreign Office. It is, moreover, posM ) e ‘
researches made by the London office may bring to light a mim e
“ official ” claims of the Imperial Bank of Persia which were ‘ , i .
companies and which do not, therefore, figure in the list (Amiex ) a ' \ n j
this despatch. The local manager of the Imperial Bank of Persia as 110
of the number or magnitude of these claims, which are lor cas 00 , .
roads, &c. The insurance companies have presumably never put 111 am c f ^
against the Persian Government as they are entitled to do.
17. This question of payments by insurance companies is ot impoi
regard to all the claims, and I regret that I have no information as to w e er
any, and, if so, how many, claims were met in this way. I conclude tna in sue
cases the claim against the Persian Government should be regarded as avmg
been transferred from the original claimant to the insurance companies.
18. One claim which is in a category by itself is not noted on any list. is
is the claim of the heirs of the late Mooshi Daniel, all information regarding
which is available in the archives of the Foreign Office (see Foieign Ulnce
despatch No. 344 of the 14th June, 1932).
19. It is worthy of note, since many of the claims are expressed m krans,
that the kran has depreciated considerably during the last twenty years, and
that, unless claimants are paid in the sterling-kran rate prevailing at the time,
considerable losses will result. A rough statement* of the totals of all the claims
has, however, been prepared and is attached to this despatch (Annex V)^ It
cannot be taken as definite (a) because of the exchange difficulty mentioned above,
(b) because the amounts of some claims are not given, (c) because there is no
uniformity as regards the computation of interest; in most cases interest has not
been added, but in a few (notably the Persian Railway Syndicate s claim) it
forms a large part of the total sum claimed. The approximate grand total at
the present rate of exchange is between £650,000 and £700,000.
20. One final point should be emphasised. As far as is known, all the
claims now transmitted for consideration are by British subjects, except when
the contrary is clearly noted, but it is quite possible that some of the claimants
are non-British subjects, and, indeed, several claimants who have for years
figured on the Legation’s lists and whose claims have been presented to the
Persian Government have, during the recent examination of all the claims, been
discovered to be non-British subjects. I regret that I am not in a position to
throw any further light on this point, the attitude adopted in the past having
apparently been that anyone serving in a British institution, such as the Imperial
Bank of Persia or the Indo-European Telegraph Department, or in one of His
Majesty’s consulates, was entitled to support in presenting his claims against the
Persian Government. In the case of Legation or consulate employees, there is no
doubt much justice in this point of view. A case in point is that of the Persian
employees captured with Major O’Connor at Shiraz in 1915. But I cannot but
feel that His Majesty’s Government has no real locus standi in respect of what
I have referred to in paragraph 15 as the ‘ ‘ private ’ ’ claims of members of the
Imperial Bank of Persia staff, where the claimants are non-British subjects and
where the losses were not suffered for any reason connected with their British
employment.
21. None of the Indo-European Telegraph Department’s official claims have
been included, owing to the entry into force of the Telegraphs Agreement signed
on the 13th January, 1932.
22. I have sent a copy of this despatch (without enclosures) to Mr. Finch,
care of the Foreign Office (No. 11 M), and to the Foreign Secretary to the
Government of India.
I have, &c.
R. H. HOARE.
P.S.—-A final examination of the lists leads to the suspicion that Bushire
claims Nos. 76 and 77 may well be identical with Shiraz claims 33 (category B)
and 8 (category A) respectively, though the amounts differ.
R. H. H.
Appendix 2.
(Sir R. Hoare’s Despatch* No. 162 of April 7, 1933.)
Not printed.

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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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