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File 1093/1915 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf:- H.M. Consul at Mohammerah’ [26r] (45/142)
The record is made up of 1 item (70 folios). It was created in 23 Jan 1915-9 Dec 1926. 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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No. 34 of 1916.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
FOREIGN AND POLITICAL DEPARTMENT.
ESTABLISHMENT.
To
The Right Honourable AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN,
Ilia Majesty's Secretary of State for India*
Simla, the 5th May 1916.
Sir,
In continuation of our despatch No. 102 (Establishment), dated the
22nd October 1915, we have the honour to report, for the information of His
Majesty’s Government, that we have sanctioned the following increases of
expenditure on Diplomatic and Consular establishments in Persia during the
half-year ending the 31st March 1916:—
(1) Bandar Abbas .—An expenditure of Rs. 218-C-5, on account of the
supply of 16 old M. L. E. rifles to the Consul at Bandar Abbas to
arm local inhabitants for the defence of the Consulate.
(2) Bushire .—An expenditure of Rs. 245-4-3, on account of the supply
of line gear for one year to the Consular escort
at Bnshire.
(3) Ispahan. —(a) An expenditure not exceeding krans 690, on account
of the replacement of a horse of the Consular
escort cast for “side-bones” and sold on the 14th
July 1915.
(5) The grant of krans 60, as a special case, to Ahmad
Khan of the Consular escort to compensate him
for the loss arising from the difference in the
rate of exchange on a money order sent to a
relative in India and subsequently returned, the
payee having died before the money reached its
destination.
(4) Mohammerah. —(a) An expenditure of Rs. 400 to be incurred
during 1916-17 on the replacement of a horse
of the Consular escort which was suspected
of glanders and destroyed in December 1914.
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Correspondence exchanged chiefly amongst 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. officials concerning the appointment of staff at the British Consulate at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. Papers dated 1915 concern the immediate appointment to the post of Consul at Mohammerah of Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Lloyd Kennion; Kennion’s transfer from the War Office to the Indian Political Department; and arrangements for Kennion’s free passage to Mohammerah. Subsequent correspondence concerns: the appointment of Assistant Surgeon C H Lincoln as Acting Consul at Mohammerah in 1916; the temporary appointment of Everard Huddleston Gastrell as Consul in 1922; the temporary replacement of Lincoln as Vice Consul by John Wilson Woodsell in 1926.
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