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Coll 28/42 ‘Persia. Motor-car Registration in East Persia. Issue of Driving Licenses and Visas to British & Persian subjects; Indian lorry drivers in Persia.’ [37r] (73/427)
The record is made up of 1 file (212 folios). It was created in 21 Dec 1931-10 Jan 1939. It was written in English, French and Persian. 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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moot favoured nation treatment* It
appears therefore that British drivers
are entitled to benefit under paragraph
1 of Article S of the Irano-Soviet
Treaty # mid consequently to exemption
from *tout service obligatoire ’ 1 except
in the contigency of some calamity of
nature - an earthquake for example* such
as occurred at Quetta last year*
6 * Similarly the third paragraph
of the same articles extends exemption
to loans under compulsion* The comman
deering of a lorry is evidently a loan
made by its owner under compulsion« and
thus in respect of vehicles also British
Subjects would appear to be entitled to
benefit from most favoured nation rights*
7* The new position revealed since
the conclusion of the Irano-soviet
Treaty ha© been under careful considera
tion by His Majesty’s Government in the
United Kingdom and the Government of
India* I am now instructed to draw the
attention of the Imperial Government to
it* and to ask that steps may be taken
to secure exemption from commandeering
both for British lox-ry drivers and for
the lorries owned by British subjects*
8 * It is regretted that it should
be necessary after the comparitlvely
short interval since the issue of the
instructions referred to at the
/beginning
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Papers concerning the issue of licenses and visas for Persian and Indian lorry drivers operating between Duzdap [Zahedan] in the East Persian province of Sistan, and Nok Kundi in British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan]. The licenses were issued by the Governments of Persia [Iran] and India.
The correspondence includes: reports of social unrest in the border region between Persia and British Baluchistan from 1934 to 1936; the Persian military’s commandeering of lorries driven by Indians for the purposes of transporting Persian troops and provisions; reports of the ‘ill-treatment’ of some Indian drivers by the Persian military; compensation claims made by the British Government against the Persian Government, on behalf of Indian drivers who were injured or killed while driving through dangerous areas; discussion between the British and Persian Governments about the Anglo-Persian Treaty of 1857, and the entitlement of British subjects in Persia to ‘most-favoured nation treatment’.
The file’s principal correspondents include: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran, Reginald Hervey Hoare, Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugesson; the British Consul at Sistan and Kain [Ka’īn], Clive Kirkpatrick Daly; the Foreign Department of the Government of India; the Governor General and Chief Commissioner in Baluchistan.
The file contains several items of correspondence and newspaper cuttings in French, and a single item in Persian.
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 (212 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 213; 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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- English, French and Persian in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/L/PS/12/3445
- Title
- Coll 28/42 ‘Persia. Motor-car Registration in East Persia. Issue of Driving Licenses and Visas to British & Persian subjects; Indian lorry drivers in Persia.’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:6v, 8r:13v, 16r:47v, 54r:73v, 75r:89v, 91r:169v, 171r:201v, 203r:213v, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence