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‘Persia – especially Seistan’ [387r] (772/949)
The record is made up of 1 file (475 folios). It was created in 7 Nov 1901-23 Aug 1905. 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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foreign department notes.
SECRET—E., JUNE 1905.
Nob. 45—111.
REPORTS OF THE COMMERCIAL MISSION TO PERSIA. * 2 * 4 S. 6
Telegram from His Britannic Majesty’s Consul, Kerman, dated the 15th (received 16th)
September 1901.
States that the estimate for the Mission, for three delegates, without pay of
Indians, totals to Rs. 7,562.
For information.
G. M. C.,—17-9-04.
17-9-04. I*- Russell.
Major Sykes considers a first advance of Bs. 2,000 to each member of the Mission
Vide External A. Proceed^, 1904 , sufficient for travelling expenses ; a further advance
Nos. sT IOC if neces.-ary can be arranged from the Bank at
Kerman. /
2 . The file may now be sent unofficially to the Finance Department who rnay be asked, i^
they agree, to wite necessary instructions to the Bombay and Cawnpore Treasuries
8 On return of the file we might wire to the Bombay and Upper India Chambers of
Commerce, the two Chambers that are sending delegates with the Mission, sanctioning an
advance of Its. 2,000 to each of the three delegates, Messrs Kapadia and Massani, Bombay,
and Mr. Arthur Gleadowe-Newcomen, Cawnpore, a copy of our sanction being sent to the
Bombay Government and the Government of the United Provinces.
4 . In the meantime the date of the first steamer in October which sails direot from
Please do this early. Bombay to Bunder Abbas, via, Karachi, will be
L. Rvssill. looked up.
S. M. Feasbr.
nr t u j ... 5. Mr. Maclean’s report, the Anglo-Persian.
We should send copies of these direct from this r m-.ee v •
Department as scon as ready, Oonvontion, and tbe Convention Iciriii are beings
L. RiTssaLL. printed up.
Finance Department will be supplied with 100 copies of the Report.
6 . The portion of the file returned from the Finance Department has been amalgamated
_ , , . „ with the main file and a complete spare copy of
Tc, .end them . eop, of all the papera ^ cun . ent paperSi inolu(ii „ g th „ se already reoord-
L. c9oi.Lt. may be sent to the 1 iuaiice Department witb
their papers.
G. M. C.,—9-9-04.
C. H. C.,—9-9-Ok
I do m t think that we should offer to any of the delegates any advance until they ask
for it. We have told them that we are prepared to grant them each a sum to be agreed upon
as representing actual travelling expenses. If we start doling out handsome advances, unasked^
we may have the delegates forming unduly extravagant id* as.
On the other hand we may any day have the delegates asking us for some indication of
the amount which we are prepared to give, and to enable us to reply to such an enquiry, I
would suggest that we should telegraph to Major Sykes, as proposed in my note of 31st
August 1904, asking for an estimate of what he considers will be the total actual travelling
expenses for each member (from debarkation at Bunder Abbas to embarkation at GwadurJ.
At the same time we may ask the Finance Department to agree to grant advances of
the sums mentioned by Major Sykes, if and when we consider this necessary.
9 . 9 . 04 . L. Russell.
I agree in the above, and the draft telegram to Major Sykes may issue, but he will be
able to give only an approximate estimate aud we shall have, I think, to stipulate that the
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This part contains papers mostly relating to British interests in Persia [Iran] and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
It includes a copy of the Board of Trade Commercial Intelligence Committee ‘Report received from Mr. H. W. Maclean, the Special Commissioner appointed by the Commercial Intelligence Committee of the Board of Trade, on the conditions and prospects of British trade in Persia.’
A handwritten note at the front of the file, on folio 5, states ‘Spare copy of notes & correspondence of the “Helmand Control” file (with maps)’. Folio 110 consists of handwritten notes, including one dated 27 April 1904, which states ‘The secret Helmand papers have been printed up, and a set, with necessary maps, is submitted for H.E. the Viceroy to take to England.’ Much of the file concerns the question of controlling the water of the Helmand river and irrigating its whole delta, and the work of the Seistan Arbitration Commission to arbitrate between Persia and Afghanistan on the question of rights to the water of the Helmand in Seistan.
The file also includes reports by W A Johns on reconnaissances of potential railway routes made while he was attached to the Seistan Arbitration Commission, and other papers relating to railways and roads in Persia.
In addition, the file includes copies of the following Government of India Foreign Department Proceedings, which reproduce received Foreign Department correspondence on the following subjects: ‘Selection of a British naval base in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .’, November 1901, Nos. 74-83; ‘Visit of His Excellency the Viceroy to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. during November-December 1903.’, February 1904, Nos. 33-127; ‘Establishment of telegraphic communication with Henjam. Question of the selection of a naval base in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . Aggressive action of the Persians at Tamb and Abu Musa; their claim to the Islands.’, June 1904, Nos. 300-388; ‘Reports of the Commercial Mission to Persia.’, June 1905, Nos. 45-111; ‘Question of retaining flagstaffs erected in the neighbourhood of the Musandim Promontory’, August 1905, Nos. 288-307.’
The file also includes: brief handwritten notes written by Curzon on headed paper belonging to the Viceregal Lodge, Simla, relating to Seistan and to Lord Kitchener’s planned reforms for the reorganisation and redistribution of the Indian Army; and a printed copy of the report ‘A Note by Major H.L. [Herbert Lionel] Showers, C.I.E., on the present state of affairs in Kelat and a review of the system of Administration now being pursued.’
The file includes four maps: ‘Map of the Tail waters of Helmand River’ (13 July 1903), f 122; ‘Plan Shewing Proposed Routes for a Railway from Nushki to Afghan Frontier near Robat’ (10 April 1903), f 139; ‘Extract from Admiralty Chart No. 753. (Entrance to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ).’ (October 1901), f 219; and ‘Sketch of route Ram Hormuz to Fellahieh.’ (April 1904), f 230.
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The papers are arranged in no apparent order, apart from the Government of India Foreign Department Proceedings, folios 231 to 474, which are arranged in chronological order.
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- front, 2r:194v, 195v:196r, 197v:199v, 200v, 201v, 203r:272r, 273v:275v, 277r:405v, 408r:408v, 409v, 411r:413v, 414v:419v, 420v:424v, 425v:432v, 433v:435v, 436v, 437v:443v, 444v:471v, 473r:475v
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