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'Correspondence respecting the occupation of Merv by Russia and her proceedings on the Khorassan Frontier of Persia.' [122r] (25/26)
The record is made up of 1 file (13 folios). It was created in 15 Aug 1884. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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supply of water necessary for the irrigation of their fields. When
this result has been obtained, the question of the formal delimitation
of the frontier will probably be brought forward by the Russian
Legation at Teheran. Meanwhile, as a preliminary measure, the
Russian Commissioner is using every effort to deprive the Persian
authorities of all control over the water supply on the Dereghez
and Kelat border.
“ The telegrams lately received by the Persian Government
from their Commissioner, Suleiman Khan, which complain in
very strong terms of the unfriendly proceedings of the Russians in
this matter, appear to have produced a very unfavourable impres
sion upon the Shah and his Ministers. I gather, indeed, from
recent conversations with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, that
the Persian Government now feel considerable uneasiness at the
prospect of their having to define the boundary line on that part
of the Khorassan frontier themselves with the Russians, and that
they would gladly welcome the presence of an English Delegate
to take part, in the negotiations, though they fear to incur the
displeasure and resentment of Russia by making such a proposal
to Her Majesty’s Government.”
* No. 84, dated 12th June 1884.
Asia ; Sect. 268.
f Despatch from Mr. Thomson, No. 107,
dated 8th July 1884.
On the 24th May the Meshed Agent reported
that an arrangement had been made as regards
the Kelat water, by which, what flowed within the
hills was left to Kelat, and what flowed ontside
to the plain was assigned to the Russians; that as
it was well known that all the cultivated lands of
Kelat lay outside the hills, the result would be to
give nine tenths of the water to the Russians and
one tenth to Kelat, and that the Persian Commis
sioner appeared, therefore, after six months’ labour
to have succeeded in so arranging matters that the
Persian peasants would have no choice left but to
become Russian subjects or fly the country.—a
view of the case concurred in by Mr. Thomson, #
and borne out by later reports.f
A. W. M.
Political and Secret Department,
15th August 1884.
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This file is a memorandum written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Political and Secret Department, of historical events and correspondence relating to the occupation of Merv by Russia, and to Russian activity in Khorassan, on the Persian boundary.
The memorandum reproduces a despatch to the Russian Ambassador to London, in which Lord Granville, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, expresses the British Government's displeasure at hearing of the Russian annexation of Merv, against assurances previously given by the Government of the Russian Empire. The memorandum gives the Russian response, describing the annexation as merely an act of local administration without political pre-meditation on the part of Russia, who continue to seek co-operation and friendly relations with the British Government.
The memorandum goes on to describe British concerns and Russian denials that they next intended to annexe Sarakhs on the Persian border, and, upon the arrival of Russian troops at Sarakhs and in other parts of Khorassan, Persian protests to the Russian Government.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 110 and terminates at the last folio with 122, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 110-122; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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