Coll 28/5 ‘Railways &c; Mirjawa-Duzdap section of Duzdap Railway; Effect on roads’ [24r] (58/870)
The record is made up of 1 volume (428 folios). It was created in 14 Mar 1931-12 Jul 1934. 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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4 . It should be noted that the words/. . . . de Tescla/age et . . . .
which appeared in the fourth line of Article 4 in the version already authorised,
have now been deleted. The word “ esclavage does not appear in the treaty
article or in the preamble to the proto/, and as the agreement refers only to
maritime control, “ la traite ” is sufMent. There is, too, a danger that the
Persians might otherwise claim an ipferest in the interim! affairs of the Arab
Sheikhdo^^ article ^ et ” been replaced by “ ou dans.’'
Article XI.—Zahedan (Duzday) Railway.
1 . A final decision regarding the wording of the treaty article and protocol
was not reached till mid-January 1934; the text then adopted will be found in
Annex D below. -r T - ™ • . > -d
2. The attached copies of correspondence between His Majesty s .Repre
sentatives at Tehran and the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs show the
previous history of the question in sufficient detail. Briefly, in October 1930,
when the negotiations were on the point of breaking down, Sir R. Clive submitted
to Feroughi a memorandum outlining the British terms (the actual wording of
this memorandum, it may be noted, had not been approved by His Majesty’s
Government). No notice was taken of the memorandum until September 1931,
when the Persians, inconvenienced by the closure of the railway in June of that
year, intimated their acceptance of the British proposals, in the hope of securing
the immediate reopening of the railway in advance of a treaty settlement. In
announcing this acceptance of “ the tenor of the British memorandum,” Feroughi
put forward a French draft of his own which, though corresponding in essentials
to Sir R. Clive’s terms, contained certain omissions and alterations of secondary
importance. On the 1 st November, 1931, Sir R. Hoare sent Feroughi a reply, in
which he took note of the Persian acceptance of the British proposals, and stated
that, notwithstanding the altered conditions then obtaining, His Majesty’s
Government would be prepared to regard the proposals “ as constituting an
agreement to come into force as part of a wider settlement,” subject to one minor
addition, viz., a paragraph providing for reasonable notice to be given in the
event of either party wishing to increase the freight rates and fares on their
section of the stretch between Zahedan and Nushki. No mention was made of
Feroughi’s draft in this reply.
3. The Persian Government have made repeated efforts to secure the
reopening of the railway in advance of the treaty settlement. The only occasion
on which His Majesty’s Government responded to these advances was in August
1931, when an offer was made to reopen the railway in exchange for a
prolongation of the permission accorded to Imperial Airways, Limited, to use
the South Persian route. This offer was not accepted by the Persians.
4. Meanwhile, at Sir R. Hoare’s suggestion, the Government of India
recently furnished His Majesty’s Legation with a draft contract for the purchase
3 y the "Persian Government of the necessary railway material, and this contract
was in due course communicated to the Railway Department at Tehran (who had
rsked for it in December 1932) with a covering intimation that delivery could be
iffected within a stated period from the conclusion of an agreement for the
transfer of the Persian section of the line.
Annex.
(A )—Sir R. Clive's Aide-memoire of October 1, 1930.
Jon cher Ministre,
Je m’empresse de vous faire parvenir ci-joint 1’aide-memoire au sujet du
hemin de fer de Dozdab que je vous ai promis lors de not re conversation du
19 septembre. En le parcourant, vous vous rendrez compte des grands sacrifices
ue mon Gouvernement est pret a faire pour regler, une fois pour toutes, cette
uestion difficultueuse. Vous conviendrez, j’en suis persuade, que les nouvelles
>ropositions dont il s’agit fournissent la preuve la plus concluante de sa volonte
I’aboutir.
Pour ce qui est de la forme que doit revetir 1’accord a ce sujet, mon
xouvernement est nettement de 1 ’avis qu’un article concis dans le Traite general,
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Papers relating to the transfer of ownership of the railway line running between Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] and Duzdap [Zahedan] in eastern Persia [Iran], from the Government of India to the Persian Government.
The volume begins with reports of interruptions to monthly rations trains, prompting the Government of India to close down the line. The remainder of the correspondence covers negotiations for the transfer and reopening of the railway:
- The impact of the railway’s closure on trade, water supply to the region, smuggling, road traffic.
- The British Government’s initial desire to use the transfer of the railway as a quid pro quo for an extension to the south Persia air route used by Imperial Airways.
- Statements showing income and losses made by the railway between 1923 and 1931 (ff 205-208).
- A report by 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. , undated but likely written in early 1933, containing a comprehensive summary to date of agreements and operations of the railway, between the Government of India and the Persian Government (ff 132-148).
- A copy of an agreement for the sale of railway plant and rolling stock, with a list of equipment, quantity and prices (quoted in Indian rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. ) (ff 94-104).
- Draft copies of an agreement (in French) for the transfer of the railway.
The volume’s principal correspondents are: the British Legation at Tehran (Robert Henry Clive; Reginald Hervey Hoare); the British Vice-Consul at Sistan and Kain [Ka’īn] (Major Clive Kirkpatrick Daly); 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. (Laithwaite); the Foreign Office (Charles William Baxter; George William Rendel).
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- 1 volume (428 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 428; 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 present between ff 391-428 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out. The front and back covers, along with the two leading flyleaves and single ending flyleaf, have not been foliated.
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- Coll 28/5 ‘Railways &c; Mirjawa-Duzdap section of Duzdap Railway; Effect on roads’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:5v, 7r:17v, 19r:24r, 26v:40v, 46r:68v, 75r:79v, 82r:93v, 104r:163v, 166r:184v, 186r:187v, 189r:273v, 276r:284v, 285v:323v, 325r:406v, 408r:428v, iii-r:iii-v, back-i
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