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File 2976/1916 Pt 2 'Persia Bunder-Abbas-Kerman telegraph & road Bushire-Shiraz road' [78r] (152/294)
The record is made up of 1 item (145 folios). It was created in 3 Jul 1918-14 Mar 1922. 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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Decypher of Telegram from Political - Baghdad to Mr. Balfour.
DABl.lO March 20th, 1919.
R. X).00 March 24th, 1919.
Unnumbered.
Following for Wilson begins:
Please send following to Wilson begins.
By telegram March 16th No.331 addressed to Teheran
Government of India insists on abandoning work on Bundar Abbas
road on the ground that His Majesty*s Government has ordered
economy and completion for motor traffic would detain Labourer
Corps two months and cost six
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
of
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
. Plan of work
has left most difficult point to the last and if abandoned now
road will be completely blocked by rocks at several places.
The only public work of permanent value effected by whole
(group undecypherable) expenditure will be abandonee, in a use
less condition and the conclusion which will probably be drawn
by Persian opinion will be that the British Government intends
to cut all losses in Southern Persia. Reasons given in the
Government of India telegram seem prima facie lamentably defi
cient and I regard decision as calamitous since (?Natives of
India) Labourer Corps are under orders to embark on April 10th
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The file mainly consists of papers relating to the Bunder Abbas to Kerman telegraph line and road in Persia [Iran]. It includes correspondence regarding: the diversion of the Bunder Abbas to Kerman telegraph line via Tarum and Saidabad; the estimated cost of constructing this new telegraph line; the total expenditure on the Bunder Abbas [or Bandar Abbas or Bander Abbas] to Kerman road; and the decision of the Government of India to discontinue work on the telegraph line and the road due to the cost involved.
The file also includes some papers relating to the development of various roads in Persia, railways in Persia, and the Bushire to Shiraz road.
The papers in the file consist of correspondence and 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. minutes, including correspondence between 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. and the following: the Foreign Office; the War Office; and the Government of India Foreign Department and Army Department.
The map shows the province of Fars in Persia [Iran], dated 1911 (IOR/L/PS/10/608, f 54). It shows features including camel paths, mule paths, foot paths, telegraph lines and deserted villages, and hydrology, and it provides some indication of relief. The map was published under the direction of Colonel S G Burrand, Officiating Surveyor General of India.
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- File 2976/1916 Pt 2 'Persia Bunder-Abbas-Kerman telegraph & road Bushire-Shiraz road'
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- 3r:60v, 63r:70v, 72r:72v, 74r:77r, 77ar, 77v:85v, 85ar, 86r:148v
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