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1. File 3414/1906 Pt 5 'Telegraphs:- N. Persia. Tehran-Khanikan line; Tehran-Shahrud line; I. E. Tel. Dept's undertakings in N. Persia'
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- Abstract: The volume contains letters and other papers, mainly between the UK Foreign Office Government of India officials, reporting on the proposed telegraph lines Tehran-Khanikin and Tehran-Shahrud. Also discussed is the Indo-European Telegraph Department's undertakings in Persia and German enquiries regarding the concession. The file includes (ff 43-46) the proposed agreement between Imperial Russian and the Persian Government and the Indo-European Telegraph Company.Correspondents include: Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, British ambassador to Persia; Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 211; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
2. File 80/1913 Pt 2 'Persia: Telegraphs'
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- 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.
3. File 80/1913 Pt 1 'Arabistan: telegraph line'
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- Abstract: The volume comprises one part discussing the Arabistan telegraph line: correspondence, notes and telegrams regarding repairs to the Line, and arrangements made with the Persian Government regarding their modernization after the destruction of the tract between Bander Rig [Bandar Rig, Iran] and Borasjun [Borazjan, Iran].The volume contains 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 and the prolongation of the Telegraph Conventions until 1945, minutes of meetings at the Foreign Office; statements showing yearly payments made or to be made for the Line from 1914 to 1945; and statements showing the estimated and actual cost of its construction.The volume also contains a map of the Arabistan Telegraph Line (folio 15).The principal correspondents are the Foreign Office, the India Office, the Indo European Telegraph Department, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and His Majesty's Minister in Tehran.The volume comprises part 1. 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.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 194; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.