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with a staff, which shall not exceed in number
fifty persons, placed under the exclusive ordcra
of a British station-master, and which, its well
as the apparatus and all the instruments requisite
for working the submarine line, shall ho at the
expense of the British Government.
“ IV. The aforesaid British offico shall ho
located in the same building occupied by the
Ottoman station at the mouth of the Shat-cl-
Arab, with a viow to facilitate the combined
operations of the common service.
"The apparatus of the Ottoman servico and
that of the British service at that joint station
shall be placed in separate compartments, but in
close proximity to each other, and shall not bo
connected.
“ The exchange of messages shall take place
immediately on their receipt, the officers handing
them to each other through a window, and the
service of the British and Ottoman offices shall
be permanent. The rent and cost of maintenance
of the mixed telegraphio station shall ho shared
in equal proportions by the British and Ottoman
Administrations.
“ V. It is well understood that the active service
of the British office on Ottoman territory shall
be limited to the receipt and delivery by hand
to the Ottoman office of the messages arriving
from India by the submarine cable; to the
transmission of those which are delivered to it
by the Ottoman office; and, lastly, to tho
superintendence and maintenance of a safe and
regular submarine communication between the
mouth of the yhat-el-Arab and India.
“The Direction-in-Chiof of tho mixed station
shall devolve on the Ottoman Administration, hut
without tho right of interfering in the internal
administration of the British office.”
2. Bushire.—As regards our cable stations in
Persian territory, the leading document is the
Agreement made with the Persian Government
in December 1662 for the construction of a line
of telegraph vi& Khanikin on the Turco-Persian
frontier, through Tehran overland to Bushire, as
an alternative to the line through Turkey to Pao,
and thence by cable vii\ Bushire to India. It
was decided at the time not to make formal
application for landing rights on Persian territory
for the cable down the Gulf; but an under­
standing was arrived at with the Persian