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Coll 28/56 ‘Persia. Perso-Turkish & Perso-Russian Frontier Affairs. Rowanduz Trade Route.’ [57r] (113/154)
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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tendency to ignore the desirability of a connection with
f Iraq via Kermanehah. The bill which was recently
r-v presented to the Majlis included a programme for eight
railway lines, in which a line to the ’Iraq frontier via
Kennanshah did not find a place. His Britannic
Majesty’s Minister informs me that, when the bill was
discussed in the Majlis, a very large number of deputies
insisted vigorously upon the importance of this line,
and that the law as finally passed did not contain any
I programme at all. The result is that the Persian
Government are not, as 1 feared would be the case,
| committed to a prograunae excluding the Kermanshah line.
This development is a pleasing indication that the
Persian people realise, to a greater extent than was
previously believed, the importance to them of a railway
connection with ’Iraq.
5, I have recently discussed with Mr. Vernon the
possibility of abolishing the half per cent transit duty.
The possibility that the legality of these dues may be
challenged under the Freedom of transit Statute has
already been pointed out in my letter No. P.0. 20 dated
the 21st January, 1926. Quite apart from this, 1
believe that the existence of this duty is not only
obnoxious to the Persian Goverrraent but is to a certain
extent restrictive of transit trade. Mr. Vernon does
not consider that it is at present possible to abolish
the duty, but I am by no means convinced that it will not
be possible in the near future. The duty at present
produces about 5£
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
of
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
per annum, and I
believe that the loss attendant upon its abolition would
be partly made up, in an indirect fashion, by an increase
in the trade. It might also be possible slightly to
iissrease through railway freights, and the possibility of
/-" ■ n the talking over by the Customs Department of all bonded
warehouses
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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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- 1 file (74 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 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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- Coll 28/56 ‘Persia. Perso-Turkish & Perso-Russian Frontier Affairs. Rowanduz Trade Route.’
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- front, front-i, 2r:76v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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