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File 1323/1916 Pt 1 ‘Baluchistan:- Disturbed conditions on the Anglo-Persian border. Future administration of Mekran, Sarhad & the Kalat States’ [32r] (61/896)
The record is made up of 1 item (446 folios). It was created in 28 Mar 1916-16 Jan 1925. 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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Tehran,
May 30th, 1924.
I have the honour to transmit to yon herewith copy of despatch, as marked
below, which I have addressed to His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient, humble Servant,
EDMOND OVEY.
The Secretary
to the Government of India
in the Foreign Department.
No. 270, dated May 30th, 1924: Duzdap Railway.
BRITISH LEGATION,
Tehran,
May 30th, 1924.
Sir,
I have the honour to transmit herewith copy of a Despatch No. 73* of 19th
March last, addressed by His Majesty’s Consul at Sistan to the Government of
India, on the subject of the Duzdap Railway.
I beg leave to draw your attention to the difficulties outlined by Mr. Gould
which stand in the way of proper and efficient development of British trade
between East Persia and India by this route and particularly to the feeling of
insecurity and hesitation which is being engendered in the minds of British
Indian traders by the uncertainty concerning the removal of the Railway or its
future operation under new management whether Persian or British.
Mr. Gould’s statements about the advantages at present enjoyed by Russian
sugar in comparison with British imports of this commodity are also worthy
of note in connection with the general question of Tariffs which is at present
engaging the attention of His Majesty’s Government and it is evident that the
continuance of the railway is the only means by which British sugar can compete
in this market even should one single tariff be restored in Persia.
T have recently had considerable correspondence with the Tehran Manager
of the Imperial Bank of Persia with a view to persuade him to reopen the Birjand
branch of the Bank as advocated by Mr. Gould, but his London Board
lias decided against such procedure partly because its local managers and Mr.
McMurray consider that British trade is so directly dependent on the
Duzdap railway that unless and until it can be stated for certain that the
operation of the line will be continued over a long term of years it would be
hazardous to open another branch at Birjand. This decision is to be regretted
as it affects trade through lack of banking facilities on the main route between
Meshed and Duzdap ; but the Imperial Bank of Persia has promised to recon
sider its decision as soon as a definite pronouncement has been made by His
Majesty’s Government and traders have shown that they mean to compete per
manently for the Meshed trade.
Representations are also being made to the Director, Persian Section, Indo-
European Telegraph Department, with a view to removing the difficulties at
present experienced by Duzdap traders in telegraphing quickly and economically
to and from India.
Le397FD
VS. No. 73.
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The part contains reports, correspondence, and printed copies of correspondence, relating to affairs on the frontiers between Persia [Iran] and British Baluchistan [Pakistan], as well as between British Baluchistan and Afghanistan. The part includes: reports of unrest and desertion amongst the Zhob militia in 1916, and losses incurred as a result, as reported by the 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. at Zhob, Major Arthur le Grand Jacob; the granting of financial rewards to officers and men in the Zhob militia who did not desert during the Third Anglo-Afghanistan War in 1919; the continuance of funds towards a number of British border forces in 1921, including the Swat Levies and the Mekran Levy Corps; discussion of the future arrangements for the administration of those parts of Mekran [Makran] under the authority of the Khanate of Kalat, 1922; reports on the Kalat administration; the disposal of the Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] to Duzdap [Zahedan] railway; and the transfer of control over tribes in the Sarhad district of Persian Baluchistan, from the British to the Persian authorities, March 1924.
The part’s principal correspondents are: the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India; the Agent to the Governor-General, Resident and Chief Commissioner, Baluchistan; the 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. at Kalat, Terence Humphrey Keyes; the Foreign Office; and HM Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran.
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