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Coll 28/51 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Treaty negotiations: Article regarding private claims.’ [‎45r] (89/357)

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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47
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%
on hsis boon
as returned
tvav
:d.
Robbery
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. 32. 35. 36. 37
Shiraz, pp. 15, 23, 25, 27, 38, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 60.
Sultanabad, pp. 49, 52.
Tabriz, pp. 50, 51, 52, 66.
Yezd (None).
Totals of amounts claimed in the various categories of claims (computed in sterling at
50 krans to the £), pp. 34, 42, 46, 48, 53, 56, 57, 59, 62, 64, 65, 68.
The Consulate Claims.
(War Period.)
Most of the important claims arising during the war period (the 4th August,
1914, to February 1921) come from the Legation, and are included in the
compilation dealing with the Legation claims; but a fair number, mainly
relating to highway robberies, are returned by our consulates, and these are set
out in the attached statement.
These consulate claims arising during the war period are in general subject
to the same observations as those arising out of the war period. These
observations might be briefly summarised as follows :—
(1) Much of the evidence originally furnished has been lost or cannot now
be traced.
(2) Not much reliance can be placed on the allocation of the claims to
categories {a), (b) or (c), according as the evidence is deemed by our
consuls to be respectively conclusive, incomplete or materially lacking.
Many claims placed in (a) are sadly lacking in evidence, and there
are manifest differences of view among the various consuls as to what
may constitute an (a), (b) or (c) claim. Nevertheless, this allocation
has been retained in the attached statement, as it represents what
the consuls, with their local knowledge, think of the claims.
(3) There is a noticeable absence of information about insurers’ claims,
although mention is made of several.
In the attached statement each set of claims has been arranged
chronologically as follows :—
Highway robbery (a) claims.
Highway robbery (b) claims.
Highway robbery (c) claims.
The miscellaneous claims follow under the heads of—
Burglaries.
Evacuations of Persian towns.
Murder.
Postal losses.
Resht disturbances, 1920-21.
Shiraz outrages.
Theft.
Tribal raid.
Urumia, depredations in, 1914-18.
As regards the highway robbery claims, the country was no doubt in a highly
unsettled state during the war period, and it is fairly clear that the Persian
Government, during part of this period at any rate, had no adequate control over
the disaffected districts. The miscellaneous claims relate to events which are
mostly easily identifiable, such as evacuations of Persian towns, local outrages
against British subjects, and the like, concerning which other and more definite
evidence exists in our records.
In dealing with the other sets of claims outside the war period, it was
premised that (apart from the question whether a particular claim justified a
claim on the Central Government) the following evidence would be desirable for
the establishment of a claim :—
(1) The claimant’s original representation, setting out the facts, the date
of the occurrence, details of the loss or damage done, as well as proof
of the claimant’s British nationality.

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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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