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File 2908/1907 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf:- Quarantine; German complaint’ [‎124v] (248/250)

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The record is made up of 1 item (125 folios). It was created in 26 Feb 1903-1 Dec 1908. 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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The Convention was signed on the 3rd December by the Depre-
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sentatives of twenty-one Powers.
Signatory Pow ers:—
^Germany.
Argentine Republic.
# Austrin.
Pelgium.
Brazil.
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Spam.
^United States.
Prance.
* Great Britain.
Greece.
Italy.
The following is a list of tho
Luxembourg.
Montenegro.
* Hoi land.
Persia.
Portugal.
Roumania.
Russia.
Servia.
Switzerland.
'“Egypt.
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the reserves which wall he mentioned later.
The Representatives of Portugal, Greece, Persia, Egypt, Brazil, the
United States and Servia signed ad referendum.
The Representatives of Sweden and Norway and of Denmark did not
sign the Convenlion.
The Turkish delegation stated that they were authorised to sign, but
under so many reserves that these would have practically annulled the
whole Convention. Under these circumstances the President of the
Conference stated that he could not permit them to sign the Convention.
His remarks on this point are condensed into a single sentence in the
printed but, as a matter of fact, he spoke at some length
on the impropriety of, and the impossibility of permitting, the signature
of any Delegates under such conditions.
This is, we believe, the first occasion on which, in a Sanitary
Convention, the list of reigning Sovereigns, or heads of States, whose
Plenipotentiaries have accepted the Convention, has included the name
of His Highness the Khedive of Egypt, and that the Convention has
been signed by the Egyptian delegates. The position thus brought
about is somevdmt anomalous. The Egyptian Delegates had, throughout
the Conference, been regarded as technically part of the Turkish
delegation. They bore the same relation to that delegation as the
Indian Delegate did to the British delegation. They had the right of
voting in Committee, but not in the plenary meetings. Yet the refusal
of the President to allow r the Turkish Delegates to sign the Convention
has brought about the remarkable result that that document bears the
signature of the Egyptian Delegates, but not those of the Turkish,
while the name of the Khedive, but not that of the Sultan, appears in
the list of the Signatory Powurs.
Me should add that it w r as unanimously agreed (with the exception of
the Tuikish delegation) that lire Powers represented at the Conference
should use their best endeavours to induce Turkey to accept and apply
the International Sanitary Conventions.
The following is a brief summary of the reserves under which certain
1 owers, as stated above, accepted the Convention :—
-ixeserves or ejrear .Britain.
Bureau 8 ^ ^ Uni)roved of tlie proposed International Health
P£ es , a / d the P ro P osed sanitary station at the entrance to tbe
ersian ljult. there were three reserves on this point:
(«.) That the consent of His Majesty’s Government to the reunion of
,,, C ?“ misslon ^or the Revision of the Turkish Sanitary
lantt (one object of which would be to authorize tne advance
un s or that station) is subject to the condition that

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The item consists of part three of the subject file 2908/1907 Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. : Quarantine. This part broadly covers two topics: the proceedings of the International Sanitary Conference at Paris (1903) and complaints made by German consular staff at Bushire against the conduct of Captain Thomas Beauchamp Williams whilst undertaking his duties as Chief Quarantine Officer in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

Correspondence outlining the details of three quarantine incidents has been included:

Complaints against Captain Williams over his conduct during the latter two incidents were lodged by Count Quadt, German Minister at Tehran, at the Tehran Sanitary Council: see folios 4-6 for related papers. A copy – in French – of a report of the proceedings of the fifty-third session of the Tehran Sanitary Council can be found on folios 11-14.

A copy – in French with English translation – of the International Sanitary Convention, signed at Paris 3 December 1903, can be found on folios 43-108. For supplementary correspondence outlining the proceedings of the British delegation at the Conference, see folios 109-125.

The main correspondents are as follows: HM Minister at Tehran (Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice), HM Chargé d'affaires at Tehran (Charles Murray Marling), 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. (Major Percy Zachariah Cox), the Chief Quarantine Officer in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , the German Consul at Bushire (Dr Franz Listermann), officials of the Foreign Office, and officials of 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. .

No papers have been filed for the years 1905-1906.

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