ملف ٣٨٧٧ لسنة ١٩١٢، الجزء ٥، "تركيا الآسيوية: المصالح النفطية" [و‎‎١‎٧] (٦٠/٣٥)

It in reo nested that in any further communication
on this subject the under-mentioned letter and
"number may he quoted, and the reply addressed to —
The Under Secretary of State for India,
Political Department,
India Office,
London, S. W.
P.
Telegraphic Address :
RETAXANDUM, LONDON.
minim a«¥i
INDIA OFFICE,
WHITEHALL.
LONDON, S.W.
lat April 1916.
3ir #
1 m dir^cUd by th** llMrutary of \t\Ui for
India to aoluiovl*d&o tho of your l«tu»r /•564C1
of 29th arc.-*, and in reply to my that ho ia not aware
whether lany ariti^i conooeoxona oxiat in territory
which Kuaaia ia likely to acquire in Asia iuor. i>ut
two of the utationa of the Archbishop' s lisiion to the
is Syrian Ciiriati'uis ■.uro cppcmtily xu >uch torri tory
win. il'ioso fit % ->f * v ul'.h"i»'?rh, aiad A^ndia.
«i Gowennwit eho^ld oak# Tt
» *
to tho^e isade by the r'ronch ovsru;
lions si ailar
•* •
o enquire whether it
Irwbl# j md possible
He further lirocts m
is, iu Sir B. Grsy’a opinion, <
at tJto preaont in ct>c-i iJw aa.ae raaorrationa a*
r^-\rti .5 territory that will u»<l->r ronch
adniniatmtion or influence• ‘It 'fill be bom# in Blind
that Hi# Ssajeat/'s (Joferwiwit hare aupoorteo the cl iiw
af : r. D*Ar#y to a ooac###ion of all oil depoaita in
the viinyote at i-oaul md P.v’dad; and *li#ther or not it
may be •JO*»ibl# to aaintain Uiia claim apninat the
/ranch in it« entirety, it would ieera adviaable to keep
in our hands, if possible, material for bor-^ininr. It
is
'he Under Secretary of State,
Foreign Office.