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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [209r] (422/566)
The record is made up of 1 volume (279 folios). It was created in 1929. It was written in English. 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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POLICY
367
from Meshed (on the 16th September) of two squadrons 28tji
Light Cavalry (under Major J. A. C. Kreyer), which reached
Kaahka on the 28th.
After the fight on the 18th, Lieutenant-Colonel Knollys
reported to General Malleson that an advance eastward by the
Trans-Caspian force was out of the question for the time being,
as the British artillery had very little ammunition, the Russian
staff of the force were quite incapable of organising an advance,
the Russian and Turkoman elements of the force were un
reliable and there was a large number of Bolshevik agents
among them.
At this period we received reliable information that the
Germans had formed a plan for military action in Turkestan
but that Kress, who was commanding the German forces in
Trans-Caucasia, had been warned to exercise care in his arrange
ments owing to German pledges to the Bolshevik Government
of non-intervention in Turkestan and to the strained relations
regarding Turkestan between Germans and Turks. What the
German plan may have been is unknown, but that they had
some material at their disposal was clear from a telegram sent
at this time by the Swedish Red Cross Commissioner at Tash-
kend saying that there were 29,000 German and 26,000 Austrian
prisoners of war in Turkestan.
At Tehran, Sir Percy Cox took over charge of the British British policy
Legation on the 16th September, and on the 23rd he sent the and Persian
Foreign Office a long telegram reporting the result of two or September
three very frank and full discussions which he had carried out 19 x 8 .
with Vossuk-ud-Daula and his principal supporter in the
Cabinet (Nasrat-ud-Daula). The fall of Baku and our retire-
nient from Kuflan Kuh had given hostile elements a pretext
for reviving violent anti-British propaganda, he said, and this
had resulted in weakening the position of the Cabinet and in a
considerable run on the Imperial Bank of Persia. Though it
was difficult to conceive that any intelligent Persian could
dream, at this juncture, of entering the war on the enemy's
side, said Sir Percy Cox, he had learnt from reliable sources
mat, if we suffered any further set-back in North-West Persia,
a rea ^ ^ ail £ er hostile elements would turn out
e Cabinet and would replace it by one of extremists, by whom
e country would certainly be dragged into war against us.
Alter previous consultation with General Marshall, Sir Percy
ox had informed the Persian Cabinet in strict confidence of
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A confidential publication compiled, by arrangement with the Government of India, under the direction of the Historical Section of The Committee of Imperial Defence, by Brigadier-General FJ Moberly. The volume is part of the Official History of the Great War series produced by the British Government.
The volume begins with a preface by Moberly and is then divided into 11 (I-XI) chapters, plus appendices, as follows:
- Chapter I: Introductory
- Chapter II: August 1914 to June 1915, Enemy efforts to bring Persia into the War
- Chapter III: July to November 1915, Enemy action and Persian weakness necessitate Allied intervention
- Chapter IV: December 1915 to May 1916, Successful results of Allied operations
- Chapter V: May to December 1916, Turkish invasion of Western Persia and British measures in South and East Persia
- Chapter VI: December 1916 to August 1917, Effects of British success in Mesopotamia
- Chapter VII: September 1917 to April 1918, The failure of Persia to maintain her neutrality necessitates further British intervention
- Chapter VIII: May to July 1918, The effect in Persia of the German successes in France; and the anti-British outbreak in Fars
- Chapter IX: July to September 1918, The tide turns in favour of the Allies
- Chapter X: October to 11th November 1918, The effect of our victories
- Chapter XI: Conclusion
The volume contains fourteen maps, some of which are in a pocket in the inside back cover, as follows:
- 1. Operations at Bushire 1915 (folio 275)
- 2. Portion of Perso-Afghan frontier (folio 276)
- 3. Operations at Dilbar, 13th-15th August 1915 (folio 66)
- 4. Operations of General Dyer in Sarhad, April-August 1916 (folio 277)
- 5. Wanderings of German parties in Persia and Afghanistan (folio 278)
- 6. Affair of Dasht-i-Arjan, 25th September 1916 (folio 128)
- 7. Affair of Kafta, 5th July 1917 (folio 144)
- 8. Northern Fars (folio 177)
- 9. Action of Deh Shaikh, 25th May 1918 (folio 182)
- 10. Shiraz (folio 194)
- 11. Operations from Bushire, September 1918-January 1919 (folio 279)
- 12. Plan of East Persia L. of C. (folio 231)
- 13. Operations for relief of Firuzabad, October 1918 (folio 236)
- 14. Persia (folio 280)
The volume also includes a bibliography (folio 14).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (279 folios)
- Arrangement
At the front of the volume there is a contents page (ff 6-14), list of maps (f 14), and list of illustrations (f 14). At the back of the volume is a general index (ff 269-73). All refer to the volume's original pagination.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 281; 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.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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