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'1902. THE LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON. TELEGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA.' [161r] (332/412)
The record is made up of 1 volume (202 folios). It was created in 1903?. 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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Viceroy to Secretary of State.
No. 366.] P * Telegram, 19th August 1902, 10 a. m.
\
Please see your cipher telegram of 8th August last. The follow
ing prisoners of war are Russians:—12563 Johan Jansen; 17310 Meyer
Schochat; 22780 Phillip Gersen; 17795 Harris Cohen; 17860 Sem Gold-
blatt; 17003 Simon Gittleson; David Lewis Cohen; Hyman Lewis and
Hartis Placks.
No. 367.] Viceroy to Secretary of State.
P * Telegram, 20th August 1902. (Despd. from Poreign Dept.)
Tibet. Your telegram 11th August. I have just received through Bengal a
copy of a letter addressed to the Lieutenant-Governor by Kang Yu Wai, Chinese
reformer and refugee now at Darjeeling, reporting that he has heard in a letter
from China that the Empress and Yung Lu have handed over Tibet to Russia, in
return for protection, and enclosing an abstract of the alleged terms of agreement,
which include permission to mine, to construct railway, and to build forts in
Tibet, the Government to he carried on by Russians with Chinese Counsellors,
protection being promised to monasteries, religion, and to Chinese trade.
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.
adds that he cannot say whether the report is true. In view of these
reports following on previous rumours of Russian Protectorate and the fact of
a Tibetan mission to Tsar, the significance of which is alluded to in my minute
enclosed with Secret Despatch 183, of 7th November 1901,1 think that the Chinese
Government should he informed plainly that, while we have no designs on
Tibet ourselves, we cannot tolerate presence there of another European Power,
and that any attempt to transfer Chinese interests there to Russia will be
followed by immediate occupation of Lhasa by British Indian troops. There
is reason to suppose that, in adopting this policy, we should he cordially
supported by Nepal. A copy of Kang Yu M ai’s letter was sent to Sir
W. Lee-Warner with the Eoreign Secretary’s letter of August 13th last.
No. 368.] Viceroy to Secretary of State.
P * Telegram, 21st August 1902, 4-30 p. m.
J?vivcit6. Please see your private telegram of 19th August. I shall he
delighted to arrange for Sir M. Bhownaggree as a paying guest, and have put
down his name.
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- Content
This volume comprises printed copies of telegraphic correspondence, dated 1 January-31 December 1902, of Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy and Governor-General of India, with Lord George Hamilton, Secretary of State for India.
The beginning of the volume contains a detailed index of names, places and subjects (ff 4-15). This is followed by telegrams from the Secretary of State for India to Lord Curzon, numbered 1-588 (ff 18-97) and telegrams from Lord Curzon to the Secretary of State for India, numbered 1-584 (ff 99-198).
A wide variety of subjects are covered, including matters relating to:
- The Aden Protectorate, notably the delimitation of the Aden boundary and relations with Turkey [Ottoman Empire]
- Afghanistan, including the Amir [Amīr Ḥabībullāh Khān] and Russian relations with Afghanistan
- The Army in India
- Berar [also known as the Hyderabad Assigned Districts], particularly relations with the Nizam of Hyderabad [Asaf Jah VI]
- Military operations of the Boer War 1899-1902
- Boer prisoners of war in India
- China, including the evacuation of British troops from Shanghai
- A ceremony to mark the Coronation of King Edward VII (as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India) including the Delhi Coronation Durbar A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family).
- The famine in India
- Financial and administrative matters
- Recommendations and awards of Honours of the United Kingdom to the British Indian Army and Government and to indigenous Indian rulers and dignitaries, including Coronation Honours
- The Koweit [Kuwait] Protectorate, including relations with Turkey
- British policy in Persia [Iran]
- The establishment of a Police Commission in India
- Construction and extension of railways in British India
- British relations with Russia notably in connection with India, Persia, Afghanistan, China and Tibet
- Military operations in the Somaliland Protectorate [the Republic of Somaliland]
- British policy in Tibet.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (202 folios)
- Arrangement
The telegrams are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of each of the two sections of the volume, which are divided by a folio of blue card. Each telegram is numbered, and the index on folios 4-15 gives the numbers of the telegrams which correspond to each name, place or subject listed in the index.
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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 198; 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.
Pagination: the volume also contains two original printed pagination sequences.
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