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Cubic from Hen jam Island to lJlinder
Abbas .. Dec. 31, 1D05
[Tliis cable wan constructed by
the Indo-European Telegraph De­
partment for tho Persian Govern­
ment, to whom it in to be transferred
on rc|>aynicnt of the cost of con­
struction. No repayment has yet
been made.]
At the present time tho Indo-European Tele­
graph Department maintains establishments at
tho following ports of the Persian Gulf and the
Arabian Sea lying outside British territory:
Fao, Bushire, Hcnjam, Jask, Muscat, Chalibar,
and Gwadur.* The submarine cable touches the
coast at nil these points with the exception of
Chalibar, which is a station on the land-lino from
Jask to Karachi.
The staff employed by the Department at the
various stations is as follows :—

Menial
Higher Staff.
Establishment
Fao 5 7
Bushire .. 15 17
Henjam.. 2 5
Jask 10 14
Muscat .. 2 5
Gwadur.. 1
Chalibar,. 3 4
Total .. 37 53
According to information supplied in January
1905, the number of guards employed to protect
telegraph stations in the Gulf were as follows :—
Reshire (Buuhiro) .. .. 12
Jask .. 52
Chahbor.. .. 52
Total .. 116
Rights acquired at different Stations.
1. Fao.—The rights of the British Government
at Fao were defined in the Anglo-Turkish Con­
vention of the 3rd September, 1861, “for the
establishment of telegraphic communication
between India and the Ottoman territory.”
Clauses III-V of this Convention ran as
follows:—
“ III. His Majesty the Sultan authorizes the
establishment on Ottoman territory, at the mouth
of the Shat-ei-Arah, of a British telegraph offico,
• Soe note on previous page.