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with a stuff, which shall not exceed in number
fifty persons, placed under the exclusive orders
of a British station-master, and which, as well
as the apparatus and all the instruments requisite
for working the submarine line, shall he at the
expense of the British Government.
" IV. The aforesaid British oflleo shall bo
located in the samo 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 Ottomnu servico and
that of the British service at that joint station
shall bo placed in separate compartments, but in
close proximity to each other, and shall not bo
connected.
"Tho 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 tho mixed telegraphic station shall he shared
in equal proportions by the British und Ottoman
Administrations.
“ V. It is well understood that the active service
of the Mritish 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 arc delivered to it
by tho Ottoman office; and, lastly, to tho
superintendence and maintenance of a safe and
regular submarine communication between the
mouth of tho Shat-el-Arab and India.
“The Bircction-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 rogards our cable stations in
Persian territory, the leading document is the
Agreement made with the Persian Government
in December 1602 for the construction of n line
of tole^raph via Khanikin on tho Turco-Persian
frontie" through Tehran overland to Bushire, as
an alternative to the line through Turkey to J?ao.
It
and thence by cable via Bushire to India.
decided at the time not to make formal
^ ,iSn for landing right, on Persian territory
app - down the Gulf; but an under-
for the cable with the Persian
standing was arrived at