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Coll 28/56 ‘Persia. Perso-Turkish & Perso-Russian Frontier Affairs. Rowanduz Trade Route.’ [3r] (5/154)
The record is made up of 1 file (74 folios). It was created in 12 Feb 1926-27 Oct 1933. It was written in English. 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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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OP HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT
PERSIA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
Septe
E 5737/1510/34]
No. 1.
Mr. Mallet to Sir John Simon.—(Received September 27.)
(No. 426.)
!Sir,
Gulhek, September 5, 1933.
WITH reference to my despatch No. 336 of the 7th July last, enclosing a
report by His Majesty’s consul at Tabriz upon the Rowanduz route, I have the
honour to transmit to you herewith an interesting memorandum by Mr. Simmonds,
commercial secretary at this Legation, upon the future prospects of this route.
2. You will see that Mr. Simmonds does not consider that this route can
ever compete seriously with the Batoum, or even the Trebizond, routes. Its value
in Persian eyes doubtless consists in the fact that it affords a bolt-hole in the event
of complete intransigence on the part of the Soviet Government.
3. I am sending copies of this despatch to His Majesty’s Ambassador at
Bagdad (No. 72) and to His Majesty’s consul at Tabriz (No. 32).
Rowanduz Road.
I WENT over this road between the 17th and 20th August in company with
Major Pybus, who is, I understand, preparing a detailed report.
The condition and nature of this road have already been very fully described
by Mr. Stanhope Palmer, and there is not much that I can usefully add to his
reports. At present the surface of the road is generally bad, to put it mildly, and
in many stretches it consists of badly defined and unmetalled track, although in
other cases a new road is under construction. It is quite possible for a private
car or lorrv to reach the Irao frontier from Tabriz in one day at this time of the
Nathaniel's lorries can now get no ireignt num .oaguciu lu xaunz-, tm-nuugn
freight is offered to a certain extent in the reverse direction. The Russian route
to Batoum is now open again at the freights previously ruling, i.e., the special
increase of 300 per cent, imposed during the Persian-Soviet dispute has been
removed. Mr. Palmer said that Persian merchants, probably acting again on
instructions from their Government, are refraining as far as possible from using
the Russian route at present, as they hope by this means to obtain still further
reductions. Such reductions, in my opinion, are unlikely, as the Persians are
much more dependent on this route for quick and cheap transport than the
Russians are in need of the additional freight. The present rates for carpets
from Tabriz to London via Batoum are, according to Mr. Palmer, little more than
half those quoted by Douri (for Haim Nathaniel) for transport to London via the
Rowanduz route.
Some reduction of rates on the Rowanduz route will no doubt become possible
as the condition of the road improves, but it is unlikely that they will ever
seriously compete with the Russian route, especially as the latter is an all-weathei
route. Even if Douri were able in the next year or two to bring down his rates to
approximatelv those now charged on the Russian route, rates on the lattei would
no doubt be reduced, as the Soviet Government would not lightly relinquish the
hold they now have over the Persian transit trade.
[915 dd—6]
I have, &c.
V. A. L. MALLET.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Memorandum respecting the Rowanduz Route.
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Correspondence and other papers concerning the development of trade routes in northeast Persia [Iran], on the Iraq border, with particular focus on routes through Rowanduz (also spelt Rawanduz [Ruwāndiz]) and in Azerbaijan. HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. in Tehran, Percy Loraine, and the (Acting) High Commissioner in Iraq, Bernard Henry Bourdillon, discuss the Persian Government’s desire to facilitate exports in its northern and eastern provinces, in response to Russia's embargo on all goods except cotton from Persia. The correspondence also concerns British-administered Iraq’s desire to encourage greater trade between Iraq and Persia. The file includes: a memorandum dated 2 November 1926 on Persian exports and inland transport, written by the Acting Secretary in Charge of Commercial Affairs at the British Legation in Tehran, Eric Ralph Lingeman (ff 43-46); a report dated 29 June 1931 on the Rawanduz road and other main roads in Azerbaijan, written by the British Consul at Tabriz, Clarence Edward Stanhope Palmer (ff 19-39); a memorandum dated 30 March 1932 on the Rowanduz Rayat road, written by the Director of the Iraq State Railways, Joseph Ramsay Tainsh (ff 10-15).
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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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 front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 76; these numbers are written in pencil 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.
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