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Coll 28/51 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Treaty negotiations: Article regarding private claims.’ [‎135v] (270/357)

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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refuse to agree to any such arrangement. I suggest,
therefore, that, in replying to the Foreign Office,
we might impress on them the desirability of making
as much capital as is possible of the revised draft.
3. Flease now see Mr. Metcalfe 1 s letter of 19th
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May on P.Z. 3300/32. The Indian war claims amount to
about £46,000 (as against a total British claim of
some £800,000). Out of this amount some £38,000
has been advanced at various times to certain
claimants in equal shares by H.H.G. and the Government
of India. The net loss to Indian revenues involved
in their abandonment would thus be approximately
£20,000. The risk that India might have to reimburse
claimants in respect of the balance of the amounts
claimed by them - say £8,000 - is perhaps small.
(Please see paragraph/^ below). In these circumstance
if we could secure the mutual cancellation of war
claims it would appear to suit India on the whole well.
There is little, if any, prospect of securing com
pensation direct from Persia in respect of these
claims, and a considerable risk that if referred to
an arbitral tribunal the case might go against us on
the ground that our activities in Persia during the
war were entirely indefensible. We should, on the
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other hand, be free, not only of the specific Persian
claims mentioned in Mr. Metcalfe^ letter, but of the
risk of having to face further Persian claims which
might be easier of manufacture than of disproof
( cp. paragraph 3 of Mr. Warner’s letter of 25th June
to Mr. Trickett on P.Z.3813).
4^ We have now to consider ("further claims by
claimants in India in the event of our securing
acceptance/
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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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