File 80/1913 Pt 2 'Persia: Telegraphs'

Title:

File 80/1913 Pt 2 'Persia: Telegraphs'

Date:

1919/1924

Description:

Abstract: The volume comprises one part discussing the administration of the Persian telegraph lines.The volume contains correspondence, minutes, notes, and telegrams regarding the restoration of the 1913 agreements between the Telegraph Department of the British Government and the Persian Minister of Post and Telegraphs for the reorganization of the Arabistan Telegraph Lines.The volume also includes documents on the financial obligations of the British, Indian and Persian Government, correspondence on the Persian control over the telegraph line between Meshed [Mashhad, Iran] and Seistan [Sistan region, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan], and on the administration of the offices in Abadan and Mohammerah to be transferred to Persia.The principal correspondents are the Eastern Telegraph Company Limited, the Foreign Office, the India Office, the Colonial Office, the Indo-European Telegraph Department, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, His Majesty's Minister in Tehran, the British Legation in Tehran, and the High Commissioner for Iraq.The volume contains two copies of the 'Map to illustrate the telegraph lines of the Indo-European Telegraph Department and Connected System' (folios 199 and 312), and 'A collection of Conventions and Agreements relating to Telegraphs in Turkey in Asia, Persia, the Persian Gulf and Mekran', 1916 (folios 200-217).The final part of the volume contains telegrams mentioning incidents caused by 'Afghan raiders' to the Seistan-Meshed telegraph line, near to the borders with Afghanistan, in 1923.The volume comprises part 2. This includes a divider which gives the subject and part number, year the subject file was opened, subject heading, and list of correspondence references contained by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.There is a document partly written in French within the volume, minutes of a meeting held at the British Legation in Gulhek [Tehran].Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 407; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Telegraph lines
Persian Minister of Post and Telegraphs

Geographic region:

Meshed
Seistan

Rights:

غير معروف

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000419.0x0000dd_ar
81055/vdc_100000000419.0x0000dd_en
IOR/L/PS/10/326
IOR/L/PS/10/326

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