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Government, in pursuance of which the Persian
Ministor of Foreign Affairs sont the following
instructions to the Governor of Bushiro on the
18th May, 1603
'«As you already know, hy desire of Ilia
Majesty the Shah, the Persian Government are
about to construct a telegraph line from the
frontier of Kermanshah to Bushire, and the
English GovornmriM - t hey may feel disposed,
are at liberty to join their telegraphic wires, which
aro to bo brought hy submarine line, to the
Persian wires; it is therefore necessary that they
should have a telegraph station on the coast, and
His Majesty has ordered that a station should be
erected for this purpose at ltesheer,# under the
directions of the Prince Itizad-u-Sultaneh, which
is to be given to the British Government for an
annual rent. In the meantime, os the English
cable may shortly reach Bushire, and on its
arrival they may require a place at once in which
to keep their stores and materials before the-
regular station is completed, you will now at
once, after communicating with the Resident
and ascertaining the exact spot where the cable
will be landed, proceed to erect a building
according to the accompanying plan given by
the Prince in a suitable position, and get it in
readiness, so that they may not suffer in
convenience.”
Jask.—Landing rights at Jask were held to be
implied in Article II of the Anglo-Persian Con­
vention of the 2nd April, 1808, in which provision
was mado, in view of the possibility of accident
to the Gulf cable, for the “eoustruetion and
efficient working of a lino of telegraph between
Gwadur and a point between Jask and Bunder
Abbas.” Article 11 of this Convention contained
the provision that “the English Government
will pay annually to the Persian Government
the sum of 3,000 tomans for leave to lay down
the line of telegraph on these coasts and places
which are under the sovereignty of Persia.”
The possession of land for a cable station at
Jask was, moreover, set forth in the “Jask
Agreement” of the 25th February, 1887, from
which the following clause is quoted verbatim : —
“That the telegraph establishment, which is
situated at a distance of 300 yards from the
• Situated ou the Bushire peninsula, some 6 railos south of
the town (Curron’s “ Persia,'* vol. ii, p. 235).
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