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File 1484/1916 ‘Persia; Quetta-Nushki Railway Extension’ [18r] (42/524)
The record is made up of 1 volume (258 folios). It was created in 2 Jan 1916-10 Feb 1920. 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. 236-F.C., dated Simla, the 29th October 1919.
A copy of the marginally noted papers is forwarded to the—•
Army Department , . , . .
Railway Department for mformatlon > m continuation of the endorsement
tji .. . , . ,. n „ , , ^ r ^ . . from the Foreign and Political
i) rom the Agent to the Governor General and Chief Commissioner y-. , , 9 T .01 a 17 n
in Baluchistan, No. 1648-C., dated the 3 rd September 1918, with epartmeilt, INO. ziild-n .0.,
enclosures. dated the 16th September
1918.
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MEMORANDUM.
The papers specified in the margin were transmitted to the Secretary, Poli-
NushJci Extension Railway. tical Department, India
Office, London, for the
Serial No’. (5 44). information of His Majesty’s
Secretary of State for India, under cover of the Foreign Secretary’s letter No.
82-M., dated the 15th November 1918.
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Telegram P., No. 2041-S., dated (and received) the 5th December 1918.
From—The Hon’ble the Agent to the Governor General and Chief Commissioner in
Baluchistan,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart
ment.
General Commanding Division is informed by General Communications that,
presumably with view to demanding compensation for land required for railway
quarters for troops, etc., large numbers of Persian tribesmen are.flocking into
Duzdap to stake out claims there. The only occupant hitherto I understand
has been Saiyid Khan Ishmaelzai with a few patches of cultivation, although
it is believed that the.Reki tribe have a vague claim. Vide Colonel Pepy’s secret
reconnaissance report dated March 28th 1918, paragraph No. 6 . It seems important
that huge claims for compensation should be prevented. I therefore recommend
that, as a temporary measure, Duzdap should be treated as occupied territory
under military administration and General Commanding Division be authorised
to forbid until further orders occupation by any person who is unable to prove
that he was in occupation on or before September 1 st 1918. Hutchinson could go
immediately to report under military authorities on actual occupation up to date
fixed, if this policy is approved. Question of grazing rights can be left for settle
ment later on.
(Usual distribution.)
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Telegram P., No. 2367-S., dated the 11th December 1918.
From—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart
ment,
To—The Agent to the Governor General and Chief Commissioner in Baluchistan.
Quetta.
It is desirable that preparations for locating rail-head at Duzdap should be
made with least possible fuss. Therefore Hutchinson should, if you see no
objection, proceed to the spot, enter into possession of such area as military and
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The volume contains correspondence, reports, memoranda and minute papers, relating to military and commercial assessments of an extension to the railway from Quetta to Nushki, British Baluchistan [present-day Pakistan], and from Nushki to Seistan [Sīstān], Persia [Iran]. The volume includes: a letter from Hugh Shakespear Barnes, Chairman of the Imperial Bank of Persia and a former government administrator in India, dated 29 January 1916 and enclosing an extract of a letter from 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 Chagai, Frank Cooke Webb Ware, on the prospects of a railway line from Nushki to the Persian frontier (ff 250-256); a memorandum on the improvement of communications between Baluchistan and the Persian frontier, prepared by Webb Ware, dated 19 February 1916 (ff 184-189); a memorandum on the Quetta to Nushki railway extension, prepared by Webb Ware, dated 6 February 1917 (ff 154-161); the Government of India’s recommendations on the route of the extension, based on their objection to it passing too close to the Afghan frontier (f 116); a note on the Nushki extension railway, prepared 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 Chagai, Major William Gorden Hutchinson, dated September 1918, with details of the distances between stations, and watering and grazing facilities along the route (ff 70-80); copies of a note entitled ‘Trade Routes to Khurasan’ [Khorasan], prepared by Lieutenant B Temple, Vice-Consul at Meshed [Mashhad] and dated 14 June 1919 (ff 12-15, ff 41-57).
The volume’s principal correspondents are: the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India; the Agent to the Governor-General and Chief Commissioner in Baluchistan, Sir John Ramsay; and 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 Chagai.
The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 volume (258 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
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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 258; 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 foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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