Abstract: The file concerns reports on wireless telegraph system and telephonic communications in Persia (Iran) and developments proposed by Government of India.The file is composed of correspondence between the British Legation at Tehran, the Government of India, the Foreign Office, and the India Office.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 40; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file concerns the establishment of a wireless telegraph station at Sharjah.The file contains agreements with the ruler of Sharjah for the establishment of an air station by Imperial Airways, and correspondence related to the opening of a wireless telegraph station at Sharjah.The file is composed of correspondence between: the Foreign Office; the India Office; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Trenchard Craven William Fowle; the Secretary of State for India; Imperial Airways; the Air Ministry; the Admiralty; the ruler of Sharjah, Shaikh Sultan II bin Saqr Al Qasimi; the General Post Office; and Cable and Wireless Limited.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 89; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file concerns the postal service in Persia and in the Persian Gulf.The file contains:Review of postal service in Persia [Iran] and in the Persian Gulf, with complaints of inefficiencies since their transfer under Persian administration, 1923Bushire - Shiraz mail service, 1923Proposed appointment of a Persian Director-General of Posts in Persia, whilst the Foreign Office was suggesting a Belgian to be appointed instead, 1924Appointment of Prince Moazed-ed-Dowleh as Director General of Posts, 1924Refusal of Persian Government to pay claims for loss of registered postal parcels, 1924Transfer of the Indian Post Office of exchange from Duzdap [Zahedan] to Mirjawa [Mirjaveh], 1925Transmission of parcels between Europe and Persia via Iraq, 1925Additional parcel post service via Lebanon, Syria and Iraq to Tehran, 1926Relations between Duzdap Railway authorities and Persian Customs administration, 1926Proposal for establishing insured parcel service between Persia and India via Duzdap, 1928Indian Exchange Post Office at Mirjawa, 1932; proposed closure of, 1939.The file is composed of correspondence between: HM Legation at Tehran; HM Consulate for Sistan and Kain; the Foreign Office; the India Office; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Persian Ministry for Foreign Affairs; the Secretary of State for India; Anglo-Persian Oil Company; the Superintendent of Post Offices for Baluchistan; and the General Post Office.There are letters in French in the file, from the Universal Postal Union, from the Foreign Office to the Persian Government, and from the Director-General of the Persian Postal Service.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 205; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file concerns the re-establishment of cable communication between Sheikh Said and the island of Perim [Yemen], proposed by the ruler of Yemen in 1932, and negotiations with Eastern Telegraph Company Limited.The file contains correspondence between: the Eastern Telegraph Company Limited; the Foreign Office; the India Office; the Colonial Office; the Political Resident at Aden; the Department of Overseas Trade; the Board of Trade; and the Secretary of State for the Colonies.There are letters in French, from the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications of the Kingdom of Yemen and the International Telecommunications Union.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 60; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file concerns the proposed establishment of a wireless station in Qatar by Anglo Persian Oil Company station in Abadan, to communicate with their Bahrain station, having obtained permission from the ruler of Qatar.The file contains correspondence between the India Office and Cable and Wireless Limited.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 6; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The volume contains correspondence and notes by British officials about proposals for the establishment of wireless telegraph stations in the Persian Gulf at Bahrain, Bushire, Debai [Dubai] and Zora near Ajman instead of Kuwait. The main correspondents are the following: ministers and senior officials at the Foreign Office, the India Office and the Admiralty in London; the Viceroy and Governor General of India in Council and his senior officials at both the Foreign Department and the Marine Department of the Government of India in Calcutta and Simla [Shimla]; the Commander-in-Chief, HM Ships and Vessels, East Indies Squadron (also referred to as the Naval Commander-in-Chief) and the Commander and Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf Division. They also discuss arms control and relations with the chiefs of the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, the drafting of a Trucial Coast Order in Council conferring on the Bahrain Political Agent jurisdiction over British subjects and foreigners in Bahrain, and the cost of establishing a Vice-Consulate at Lingah. Included in the correspondence is a report of a naval coastal survey of the Khor (inlet) at Zora near Ajman together with a navigational plan of the entrance to the Al Ajman and Zora Khors, made in 1911.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 213; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence has been partially superseded and therefore crossed out. The front cover and a preceding flyleaf have not been foliated.
Abstract: The volume contains correspondence and notes by British government officials about the Italian Government’s support for proposals by the British company Marconi, initially in association with the German company Telefunken, to establish a network of wireless (radio) telegraph stations in Persia. The main correspondents are ministers and senior officials at the Foreign Office and the India Office in London, the Director-in-Chief of the Indo-European Telegraph Department headquarters in London, the Viceroy and Governor-General of India at Calcutta, the British Minister to Persia at Tehran (also spelt Teheran) and the British Ambassador to Russia at Petrograd [Saint Petersburg]. The correspondents discuss the harm that would be caused to the British monopoly on telegraphic installations and communications between India, Southern Persia (referred to as the British zone) and the Persian Gulf, in the event that the Marconi Company was successful in obtaining a concession (licence) from the Persian Government, with the concurrence of the Russian Government. Included in the volume is a copy of the Marconi proposals, written in French and presented by the Italian Chargé d’Affaires at Tehran to the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1914. At the end of the volume is a copy of the General Post Office publication ‘Cable communication: further print of Concessions Granted in Foreign Countries accompanying memorandum of 13th October 1899, comparing General Forms of License for landing cables in the United Kingdom and various Licenses or Concessions for landing cables in British Possessions or Foreign Countries’, printed in October 1905.Physical description: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 318; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The volume contains correspondence, and India Office Secret Department minute papers, mostly relating to French policy regarding the Hedjaz [Hejaz or Hijaz]. This correspondence largely consists of: copies of telegrams between the Foreign Office and the British High Commissioner of Egypt (Sir Arthur Henry McMahon, followed by Sir Francis Reginald Wingate); and copies of correspondence between the Foreign Office and the French Ambassador to the United Kingdom (letters from the French Ambassador are in French). It also includes some correspondence between the India Office and the Foreign Office.The volume includes correspondence concerning: the proposed French civil and military mission to the Sherif [Sharif, also spelled Shereef in the correspondence] of Mecca, Hussein ibn Ali al-Hashimi; the proposed pilgrimage to Mecca of Muslims from Algeria, Tunis and Morocco, arranged by the French Government; correspondence regarding the reported requests of King Hussein for the employment of Muslim doctors from French colonies in North Africa in the Hedjaz, and for a wireless telegraph installation in the Hedjaz to connect Rabegh [Rabigh], Jeddah and Mecca; and the British desire for the withdrawal of the French Military Mission to the Hedjaz.The volume 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.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 178; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.