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'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1911-1914' [144r] (292/488)
The record is made up of 1 volume (241 folios). It was created in 1912-1915. 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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FOR THE TEAR 1913.
21
and it was next proposed that the Governor-General's force should receive its
arms from India His Majesty's Minister wired to the Foreign OHRce asking
that 1,000 rifles and 500 rounds per rifle might be supplied by the Government
of India. Some ammunition was left at ^hiraz by the Central India Horse at
the Governor-General's disposal and the 1,000 rifles together with the necessary
ammunition to complete the proportion of 500 rounds per rifle reached Bushire
in April.
Seven hundred rifles and 150,000 rounds were however later diverted to Sistan
for'the use of the Governor there. The 300 remaining rifles and some of the ammu
nition were utilised by the forces lent by Shiraz to the Gulf Ports admini
stration for the control of Dashti and Dashtistan. Colonel Merrill considered
the rifles unsuitable for the force he was proposing to raise and the question of
arming the Shiraz forces has not yet been definitely disposed of.
In the middle of February, Shiraz submitted its proposals for the new
force. Pive hundred sowars were to be maintained and the following measures
were urgent:—
# (1) Engagement of European officers for the supervision of troops and
military arrangements generally.
(2) Arms and ammunition to be provided for the Governor-General's new
force.
In the end of February, the Governme it of India put forward the
suggestion that the proposed military force of tbe Governor-General of Fars,
oa the success of which not oaly the success of the gendarmerie but the peace
and order of the province, collection of revenue and the repayment of the loan
depended, should be placed under British officers, in order to ensure to our
traders safety and increase of trade. His Majesty's Government, however
decided against this proposal.
In March, first appears the suggestion that a compromise on the vexed
question of British officers versus Swedes could perhaps be found by employing
Merrill, an American officer. Colonel Hjalmarson objected to Merrill as a
hopeless administrator, quite incapable of keeping accounts. In December
1913, His Majesty's Minister had to report that the general complaint against
the Swedes was that they could not submit their accounts and that 0 their
methods were extravagant.
In February, Sir Edward Grey solved the controversy by seeing no
objection to the employment of Colonel Merrill, and directed that £30,000
should be earmarked the general loan for the purposes of Fars administra
tion.
The first definite request for Merrills services appears to have been made
by the Governor -General in the month of June, but it was not until October
that it was definitely decided that he was to go to Shiraz at once to organise a
military force for the Governor-General. He was to co-operate closely with the
Swedes and to arrive at a complete understanding with the Governor-General
under whose orders he was directly placed.
Major O'Connor was of the opinion that it was important that before
Merrill left Tehran, a definite understanding should be arrived at between him
and the'Treasurer-Genera 1 as to the fixed minimum sum he could be supplied
with monthly for the purpose of the organisation of a suitable force. 20—25,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
monthly were in His Majesty's Consul's opinion requiied.
Colonel Merrill was to draw up a budget under the advice of the Finance
Agent, and the latter should receive instructions to furnish Merrill with the
necessary funds subject to usual financial control.
Colonel Merrill must be permitted, Major O'Connor continued, a free
hand in reorganising local troops. The present rabble would have to be
disbanded and dismissed.
These were the indispensable preliminaries towards the success of Merrill's
task. The formation of the force was thus, at the close of 1913, in its initial
stages, and it is difficult to make any forecast as to its future, though its
success will go far to solve a well-nigh impossible problem.
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The volume contains Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year 1911 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1912); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year 1912 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1913); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year 1913 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing India, 1914); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year 1914 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing India, 1915).
The Reports contain reviews by the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , and chapters on each of the consulates, agencies, and other administrative districts that made up the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. . The Reports contain information on political developments, territorial divisions, local administration, principal places and tribes, British personnel and appointments, trade and commerce, naval and marine matters, communications, transport, judicial matters, pearl fisheries, the slave trade, arms and ammunition traffic, medical matters and public health, oil, notable visitors and events, meteorological data, and related topics.
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- 1 volume (241 folios)
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There is a list of contents toward the front of each Report.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 2 on the first folio after the front cover, and terminates at 242 on the back cover. These numbers are written in pencil and enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio.
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- 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1911-1914'
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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