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'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [256v] (517/610)
The record is made up of 1 volume (301 folios). It was created in 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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466
The Inland Postal Service is frequently irregular and delayed
by snow in winter, and in sections may be suspended owing to
local disturbances, but it is fairly reliable.
Letters are delivered twice daily in Tehran, Basht, and
Kazvin, and in other places after the arrival of a post.
Parcels must be fetched from the post office by the addressee
on receipt of notification.
Passenger tickets are issued to travel in postal fourgons.
Foreign Postal Before 1914 the post from Tehran to London via Bussia
Service. took 10 or n q a ys under favourable conditions. At present
it is very slow and irregular via the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
from Tehran
to Baghdad taking 18 to 20 days, from Tehran to Karachi 1
month, from Tehran to London 2 months or longer.
There is no ‘through’ parcel post service from Persia to
foreign countries for parcels exceeding 5 kilogrammes in weight.
Larger parcels can only be posted to the Persian port or frontier
town, where they must be re-posted.
Statistics.
The annual report on the postal services of Persia for 1917-18
gives the following figures:—
1.—Postal Traffic.
. — '
Letters.
Postcards.
Printed
matters.
Internal Service ....
3,235,083
97,234
642,817
Foreign do
Received ....
290,628
37,498
319,366
Despatched
305,845
21,359
15,477
2.—Finances of Postal Administration.
Kr&ns
Total ordinary receipts of the Administration . . 6,161,641
do. do. . 4,972,346
Excess of receipts over expenses 1,189,295
Do.
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Military report compiled by Captain LS Fortescue of the General Staff of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force and printed in Calcutta at the Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1922.
The volume begins with a statement defining the geographical area covered by the report. The report is divided into ten chapters, plus appendices, each concerning a different subject, as follows:
- Chapter 1: History
- Chapter 2: Geography
- Chapter 3: Climate, Water, Medical and Aviation
- Chapter 4: Ethnography
- Chapter 5: Administration (including a table of provinces with administrative details (folios 123-30)
- Chapter 6: Armed Forces of the Persian Government
- Chapter 7: Economic Resources
- Chapter 8: Tribes
- Chapter 9: Personalities
- Chapter 10: Communications
- Appendices: Glossary of terms; Weights, measures and coinage; Bibliography; Historical sketch (Chapter 1) continued from June 1920 to the end of 1921
At the back of the volume (folio 302) is a map to illustrate the report.
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- 1 volume (301 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a contents page (folio 5) and list of illustrations (folio 6) at the front of the volume and an index at the back (folios 270-300). All refer to the volume's original pagination. The index also includes map references of all places marked on the map.
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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 303; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, 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.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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