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File 4535/1928 Pt 7 ‘Persia: Telegraphs: Position of I.E.T. Dept:’ [7r] (18/927)
The record is made up of 1 volume (459 folios). It was created in 13 Feb 1929-24 Nov 1929. 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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7/lthdrawa l of the ^ ~ *
We have now to consider the question of the
instructions to be sent to Mr, Parr in reply to paragraph 1
of his telegram, No. 288 of 4th November on P. 7758/30 below.
This has been the subject of informal discussion with Sir
Louis Kershaw and, on his instructions, with the Foreign
Office.
/£* Sir Louis Kershaw understands from Sir Basil
Blackett that the Communications Company have now established
wireless communication with Tehran. This greatly eases the
problem of the answer to be given to any Persian
representations. Clearly we are now in a position to reply,
if they protest that the withdrawal of the Indo Company will
isolate them, and that His Majesty’s Govemoent ought
therefore to bring pressure to bear on it to remain, that the
I-ftdo Company--deals with a semi-obsolete system o-f land linos,>
and that a satisfactory alternative system, which can carry
all the traffic likely to be offered, has been provided by
the Communications Company in their wireless service.
The Foreign Office feel strongly that it would be
desirable to keep the Legation so far as possible out of
discussions between the Indo Company and the Persian
Government, and to leave to the Company the task of
defending its v/ithdrawal. It is at the same time desirable
that the Company, in endeavouring to justify its action,
should not make too much use of the argument that it is
necessitated by the withdrawal of the I.E.T.P. We may
otherwise find the Persians making a grievance of this.
In these circumstances, the right course to take
appears to be -
v
(a) Vis -a- vis the Company - to invite them to attend an
informal meeting at which we should explain the
instructions/
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The volume contains papers, mostly correspondence, concerning the withdrawal of the Indo-European Telegraph Department from Persia [Iran]. The correspondence mainly relates to negotiations between the British and Persian Governments for the relinquishment of British control of a portion of the Indo-European Telegraph system in Persia, and negotiations between the British Government and the Imperial and International Communications Company Limited for the transfer of that portion of the telegraph system which would not be transferred to the Persian Government.
The main correspondents are as follows: the 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. ; the Foreign Office; HM Minister, Tehran (Sir Robert Clive) and HM Chargé d’Affaires, Tehran (Raymond Cecil Parr); the Government of India Foreign and Political Department; the Government of India Department of Industries and Labour; and the Director of the Persian Section of the Indo-European Telegraph Department (Eric Norris).
The file includes copies of several documents in French including: a letter from the Persian Minister of Court to Sir Robert Clive, dated 20 August 1929, with a copy of a 'Protocole relatif à Henjam'; and correspondence between Clive and the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, dated October 1930.
Other correspondents include Imperial and International Communications Limited, and the Indo-European Telegraph Company Limited.
The file also includes 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. minute papers and internal 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. notes.
The file 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.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (459 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
The subject 4535 ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and Persia: telegraphs) consists of nine files (seven volumes and two physical files), IOR/L/PS/10/1266-1274. The files are divided into seventeen parts, with parts 1 and 3 comprising one volume, part 2 comprising the second volume, part 5 comprising the third file, part 7 comprising the third and fourth volumes, parts 8 and 11 comprising the fifth volume, parts 13 to 15 comprising the sixth volume, part 16 comprising the seventh file, and parts 10 and 17 comprising the eighth volume.
A location list on folio 5 of IOR/L/PS/10/1271 and IOR/L/PS/10/1272 states that part 4 is Coll 30/75 (IOR/L/PS/12/3792), part 6 is Coll 29/68 (IOR/L/PS/12/3644), part 9 is Coll 30/17 (IOR/L/PS/12/3727), and part 12 is P 4480/1923 Pt 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/1099).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 461; 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.
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- Title
- File 4535/1928 Pt 7 ‘Persia: Telegraphs: Position of I.E.T. Dept:’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:17v, 20r:29v, 30v:73v, 74v:81v, 83r:168v, 169ar, 169r:183v, 186r:209r, 213r:262v, 266r:460v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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