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Reference IOR/L/PS/18/C131

Title 'Memorandum by Mr. Parker respecting Railway Construction in Persia'

Date(s) 13 Jan 1913 (CE, Gregorian)

Written in English and French in Latin

Extent and Format 1 file (5 folios)

Holding Institution British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

Copyright for document Open Government Licence

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The memorandum considers whether British participation in the proposed Trans-Persian Railway would be inBritain's interests. To this end it considers possible advantages/disadvantages to British trade, finance, andher strategic/political interests.

The appendix (folio 32) contains an extract from a letter from Sir William Edmund Garstin dated 9 December1912. It also contains two enclosures (in French) from a letter — also from Garstin — dated 20 December 1912.

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