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File 2976/1916 Pt 1 'Persia Bunder-Abbas-Kerman telegraph and road' [208r] (119/452)
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(ferial No. 57
No. 135 -Confidential, dated Simla, the 21st May I917.
From— ‘Major E. T. Rich, R.E., Officer-in-charge, Persia Survey Party,
To—The Chief of the General Staff, Simla.
Reference the Bandar Abbas-Kerman motor road, I have the honour to
send herewith a further report in continuation of my No. 1 27-Confidential of
9th April 1917, giving an estimate for the construction of a temporary road to
take occasional cars. ^ Your telegram No. 26652 of 24th April 1917, asking for
estimate for construction of a temporary road, did not reach me till my arrival
in Bandar Abbas on 13th May. If it had reached me earlier, I could have sent
you a detailed report and estimate before the end of April.
In my telegram No. 109* of 14th January, to which you refer in your * Diary No, 4124.
No. 26652 of 24th April, I stated that “ l hoped to be able by means of local
labour to clear the bad places enough to permit the cars now at Kerman,
Hupmobilies, to go to Bandar Abbas by it”' In the following sentence, however*
Colonel Orton’s telegram to you No. G.-i2f of 16th March stated that we + Diar ? No - 2 °36s.
considered “the lower section of the road to be so stony that the construction
of any temporary road was strongly to be deprecated, as useless, and a waste of
money,” and was meant to inform you that this cheap temporary road would not
most emphatically in his G.-j6| of 26th or 27th March to General Sykes and t Diar y No -20366.
repeated to you. For this reason I did not send you any detailed estimate for
a temporary road with my No. 127 of 9th April but only an estimate for a per
manent road.
The road subordinate, whom I asked to be sent to reach Bandar Abbas at
the end of February and about whom you wired to me in your 9542 of 1 2th
February, did not reach Bandar Abbas till the middle of March when I had left
Bandar Abbas and was half way to Kerman. He only met me at the beginning
of May on my return journey. His services have, therefore, been of no use to
me up to date owing to his late arrival at Bandar Abbas. I have now sent him
to Saidabad to assist Lieutenant Lowis in the construction of the upper portion
of the road.
I will shortly send you a report on the alternative alignment via Fin vide , D .
my telegram 125$ of 5th April. After visiting it, I consider it inferior to that via * ,ary 0 '* i492 ‘
Sarzeh for both the temporary and permanent roads.
June.
I stated that “ if a good route is discovered, the work will be finished before
be feasible as the route had turned out more difficult than I anticipated from local
reports and that as the improvement of the existing track would cost a con
siderable sum, we considered it best to advise the road being constructed on its
permanent alignment from the commencement. Colonel Orton reiterated this
C241 QSB
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This part contains correspondence relating to the construction of a telegraph line and road from Bandar Abbas (or Bunder Abbas or Bander Abbas) to Kerman in Persia [Iran].
It includes 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 War Office, the Foreign Office, and the Government of India, as well as 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 and reference papers. It also includes: enclosures from the Foreign Office of copy correspondence with the Treasury, and Sir Charles Marling, HM Minister Tehran. The file additionally includes copy correspondence of the Government of India with the following: Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes, Inspector-General, South Persia Military Police, Bandar Abbas; the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; and HM Consul, Kerman.
It includes correspondence regarding the following subjects:
- the perceived urgent military necessity of a Bandar Abbas to Kerman telegraph line and road to strengthen the British position in South Persia, in view of the establishment of the South Persia Military Police
- the War Office supplying three hundred miles of iron wire for the construction of the telegraph line
- the Secretary of State for India approving the proposal of the Government of India to proceed with the construction of the telegraph line without awaiting the conclusion of an agreement with the Persian Government
- progress reports on the construction of the road and telegraph line from the Foreign Department of the Government of India
- the route via Tang-i-Zagh and Saidabad being selected as the most suitable alignment for the road, and the cost of improving this route
- the question of whether the military advantages of the road will outweigh possible political disadvantages which may arise from its construction
- the proposed transfer of the Bunder Abbas-Kerman telegraph from its present alignment to that of the new ‘motorable’ road via Tang-i-Zagh and Saidabad
- the construction of a temporary telephone line from Bandar Abbas to Tang-i-Zagh
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