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At tho mouth of the Shat-cl-Amh there is a
buoy laid down by tho British India Company,
but it is difficult to pick up, almost impossible at
night. It ought to be replaced by a lightship. Lightship off Shat-el-Arab.
At Bushiro there should be a light by the
telegraph station.
Quito apart from political considerations, lights Light at Bushiro.
are badly needed in the Gulf. Navigation thero
is attended with great danger at night, especially
sinco tho speed of mail steamers has boon
accelerated.

(d.) British Cables.
[Communicated by the India Office.]

Central.
Tn a despatch dated tho 21st September, 1899,
the Government of India wrote as follows:—
“During tho last thirty years the maintenance
of the submarine cables of tho Indo-European
Telegraph Department from Fao to Jask, and of
the land-lines from that place to Karachi, has
devolved upon the Indian Government, and has
tended to increase an already preponderant in­
fluence over both the waters and the shores of
this sea (i.e., the Persian Gulf).”
The following are tho dates on which tho
various lines between India and the head of tho
Persian Gulf were completed:—
Mokran Coast land-lino from Karachi
to Gwadur* .. April 1863
Cable from Gwadur to Fao, vift Cope
Musanriim and Bushiro .. April 8,1864
Pn January 1869 this cable was
diverted from Capo Muaandira to
Jaak, whence it ran via Henjam
Island to Bushiro and Fao.]
Cable from Gwadur to Karachi May 16, 1864
Land-line from Gwadur to Jask Aug. 16,1869
Second cable, running direct from
Jask to Buahire, without touching
at Henjam Island .. .. Nov. 1869
Cable from Jask to Muscat «. Nov. 25, 1901

♦ Gwadur, which lies somo 60 miles on tho British sldo of
the Persian frontier in Mekran, is Muscat territory. British
telegraphic rights there are covered by the Convention of
1865 with the Sultan of Muscat, quoted below in the section
dealing with Muscat,