File 2976/1916 Pt 1 'Persia Bunder-Abbas-Kerman telegraph and road' [‎293v] (290/452)

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j fi.p opaig 0 f field service allowances and minimum salary sanction-
edlnlhe^ettCTS from theArmy Hepartment No. 10668 and 13224 dated the
llu September and 14th November'1916, respectively, for postal and tele-
!lnb officials servin" with the Expeditionary Forces should be applied to
the tele Japh staff deputed for the erection of telegraph lines between Bunder
Abbas and Kerman.
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(Beceived on the 29th September 1916, tcith Political Secretary’s letter No. 35,
dated the 31st August 1916.)
Telegram P., No. 402, dated the 28th August 1916.
Prom'—The Porelgn Office, London,
To--His Britannic Majesty’s Minister, Tehran.
On the 25th August 1916, the following telegram was sent to the Viceroy
° f In piease refer to your telegram of yesterday regarding the Bundur Abbas-
Kerman telegraph line. I approve construction on the proposed lines. War
Office will be asked to despatch wire as soon as possible, and as to cost
Foreign Office will be asked to share it. It is unnecessary to await conclus
with Persian Government of agreement. Work should be begun at the earnest
possible moment, and the best arrangements possible for protection should be
made. Line will be a part of the system of the Indo-European Telegraph
Lepartme^tch ^ ^ ^ road is a pp r 0 ved. You will no doubt
impress on them the urgency of the matter.
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(Beceioed on the 6th October 1916, with Political Secretary’s letter No. 36,
dated the 7th September 1916.)
Enclosure in Foreign Office covering letter dated 2nd September.
P. 3413.
W.-165983-16.
Foreign Office,
September 1st, 1916
With reference to my letter of the 10th July last, relative to the P»P° S ^
telegraph line and road from Bunder Abbas to Kerman, I am direc }
Viscount Grey of Eallodon to transmit to you, herewith, to be laid before in
Lords Commission era of His Majesty’s Treasury, a copy of a letter Ir
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. , from which it appears that the Secretary of State for xn
approved the proposal of the Government of India to proceed with ^
struction of this telegraph line without awniting the conclusion of an agree
with the Persian Government.
In view of the political and military urgency of the matter, Lor rey
trusts that Their Lordships will assent to the desire of the Secretary o
for India that a moiety of the cost of this line shall fall as a charge
Imperial Exchequer.
' I am,
Sir,
Your most obedient, humble Servant,
MAIJBJCE de BUNSEN.
The Secretary
to the Treasury.