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Government, in pursuance of which the Persian
Minister of Foreign Affairs sont the following
instructions to the Governor of Bushiro on tho
18th May, 18G3
“As you already know, by desire of Uis
Majesty the Shah, the Persian Government are
about to construct a telegraph lino from the
frontier of Kcrmanshah to Bushirc, and tlio
English Government *■ t hey may feel disposed,
arc at liberty to join their telegraphic wires, which
aro to bo brought, by submarine lino, to t he
Persian wires; it is therefore necessary that they
should have a telegraph station on the coast, and
His Majesty lias ordered that a station should bo
erected for this purpose at Itesheor,* under the
directions of the Prince Itizad-u-Sultaneh, which
is to be given to tho British Government for an
annual rent. In the moantime, as tho English
cable may shortly roach Bushirc, 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 tho exact spot where the cable
will bo landed, proceed to erect a building
according to the accompanying plan given by
the Prince in a suitablo 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, 18GS, in which provision
was mado, in view of the possibility of accident
to the Gulf cable, for the “construction and
efficient working of a lino of telegraph between
Gwadur and a point between Jask and Bunder
Abbas.” Article II 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 tho sovereignty of Persia.”
The possession of land for a cable station at
Jask waa, moreover, sot forth in the “Jask
Agreement” of the 25th February, 1887, from
which the following clause is quoted vorbatim : —
“That the telegraph establishment, which is
situated at a distance of 300 yards from tho
* Situated uu the Busbire peninsula, some C miles south of
the town (Curzon's •'* Persia,'* vol. ii, p. 235).
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