"الإصلاحات في مسقط: الجمارك؛ الموارد المالية، والمفاوضات مع العُـمانيين" [و‎‎١‎١‎٣] (٥٠٨/٢٣٠)

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Telegram Code
From Civil Commissioner, -Baghdad
Arab Bureau, Cairo
1441
1.2.20.
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" Your despatcli of August 2ord. Should "be much obliged if
Egyptian Government could see their way to^ aotxdin'ffl^ilbdul Salim
for further period of two 3' r ® ars Director of Customs, ilaskat
Pensions contribution of course will be x )a id.
It is essential that officials engaged for Iviaskat should
only be seconded and should not lose their pension rights or
prospect*; in the Government service from which they are drawn.
The climate of Maskat is notorious and the amenities
which count for more than the climate are nil. Local prospects
are also nil to an nonest man.
Should the Egyptian Government refuse, there will be no
possibility of retaining his services.
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It is upon the ability of/independent/ administrations in
the Middle ^ast to exchange officials occasionally that the
possibility of a future United Middle Eastern Service depends
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and I trust t. ; at Egyptian authorx ties^consider tnis aspect oi
case and will look with benevolence on the claims of this
backward state to assistance from its more advanced nei fth^our ^
India cannot supply suitable Mohamedan oificial.
Civil Commissioner, Baghdad,
No.
Office of the Civil Commissioner,
Baghdad, the 2nd February 1920,
8/20
D.P.R., Bushire
P.A.Maskat,
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Copy forwarded for information ref.your 32 of Janm
-ary 7 th,19 20.
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Lieut^Col., I, A. ,
Acting Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia,
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