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Correspondence and Papers on Various Matters Relating to Persia [94r] (189/306)
The record is made up of 1 file (148 folios). It was created in Jan 1912-Jan 1917. It was written in English and French. 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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ppo»iigo shortly to boooao serious and to exlead to oure; the
need for securing our trade fro& suoh set backs as occurred
in 1^12: and the neoeseiiy for suppressing raidiag and the
carrying off of woiuea* as well as the urgency of dealing nith
Mekran voast arras traffic which is again rising its head.
as the figures cited in the margin clearly show, would all
The number of rifles and rounds of aamunition reported
the Director bf
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Telegraphs, Karachi, as
having been landed on the Mekran Coast, during the past
throe years stand as follows *
y dpOUnd d /
(11. !• 1GU1U10 to 30.11.1911. Uifles ^^Aawunition 2d900
UJ. 1. Id. lull to 30.11.1912. n iw- " 1»00
V3>. l.UJ.iai2 to 30.11.1018. " /8eS " 10*100
.It is to be noted that these numbers cover only such
consignments as have come to knowledge end that the actual
numberslanded on this boast must largely be ttBeve these.
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seem to
justify the
serious con
sideration
of this step.
The hill
country which intervene8 between our Haladak-Eobat frontier
and the Dasht-i-Lut desert is extremely narrow and the
occupation of its isthmus in eoise such way as has been
indicated would, not only compel arms caravan to make such
lengthy detours as would result, eventually, in the Mekran
coast being abandoned as a suitable locality for running arsif
owwi-.r—| f | m
cargoes, but, short of the posting a large force of Persian
uendarmarie in Soistan, this seems the only step which holds
out hope of counteracting that steadily approaching danger i<
an attack iu force on beistan by barh&d Daluoh. The
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
of this memorandum is a otreng advocate figainst traasfrontie:
interferonce but it is becoming more and more evident that
the task of restoring order in Sarhad must eventually fall t
us and it seems clear that it is only by extending our ii&lu-
that this
ehistan tribal levy system to that aountry/can be dons witho
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The file contains correspondence from a number of political officers, civil servants, writers, journalists, army officers, businessmen, and engineers.
Correspondents include: Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane-Baillie, former Governor of Bombay; Albert Houtum-Schindler, former employee of the Persian Government; Major Percy Zachariah Cox, British Consul General, Bushire; John Richard Preece, former British Consul, Isfahan; Ignatius Valentine Chirol, journalist, author, and historian; Lovat Fraser, author; Lord Thomas Henry Sanderson, former civil servant; Major William Frederick Travers O'Connor, British Consul, Shiraz; Charles A Brouard, Engineer; Captain Frank Cooke Webb Ware, Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Chagai; Murray Robertson; Sayyad Mazhar-ul-Hussan, Indian civil servant; Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes, Director of the Imperial Bank of Persia; Charles Staniforth, businessman and railway investor; Sir Charles Edward Yate, administrator and politician; Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel, 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 John Ernest Buttery Hotson, administrator and naturalist.
The majority of the correspondence covers matters relating to Persia [Iran], including: various railway projects, including the Baghdad Railway and the proposed Trans-Persian Railway; British Policy in Persia; Russian, German, and Turkish activities in the region; the military campaign in Mesopotamia; the chaotic situation in Southern Persia; and Major Terence Humphrey Keyes' mission to the Mekran [Makran] region. The correspondence with Charles Yate (folios 134-139) discusses the effort to pass the Bird Plumage Prohibition Bill through Parliament.
Additionally, the papers include forwarded reports, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, etc., all relating to Persia and the wider region, often with requests for Lord Curzon's reviews and opinions.
The French language material consists of the letter from the engineer, Charles Brouard.
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- 1 file (148 folios)
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The file is arranged in chronological order, from the front to the rear.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 152; 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. The file contains one foliation anomaly, f 70a.
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- Mss Eur F112/251
- Title
- Correspondence and Papers on Various Matters Relating to Persia
- Pages
- 70Ar, 70Av, 74r:97v, 132r:133v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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