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Cable from Ilenjam Island to Ibindcr
Abhaa .. Dec. 31, l'J05
[This cable wn« constructed by
tbo Indo-European Telegraph De­
partment for tbo Persian Govern­
ment, to whom it is to be transfeiTed
on repayment of the cost of con­
struction. No repayment has yet
been made.]
At the present time the Indo-European Tele­
graph Department maintains establishments at
the following ports of the Persian Gulf and the
Arabian Sea lying outside British territory:
Fao, Bushiro, Ilenjam, Jask, Muscat, Chahbar,
and Gwadur.* The submarine cable touches the
coast, at all these points with the exception of
Chohbar, which is a station on the land-lioc from
Jask to Karachi.
Tho staff employed by the Department at the
various stations is as follows:—

Menial
Higher Staff.
Establishment
Fao 5 7
Bushire . 16 17
Ilenjam. 2 6
Jask 10 U
Muscat . 2 6
Gwadur. 1
Chahbar. 3 4
Total .. 37 53

According to information supplied in January
1903, the number of guards employed to protect
telegraph stations in the Gulf were as follows :—
Reshire (Bushire).. .. 12
Jask .. ,. .. 52
Chahbar.. .. 52
Total .. .. 116

Rights acquired ut different Stations.
1. Fao.—The rights of the British Government
at Fao were defined in the Anglo-Turkish Con­
vention of the 3rd September, 18GI, “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 tlio mouth
of the Shat-el-Arab, of a British telegraph offico,
* Soo note on previous page.

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