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‘Memorandum respecting the frontier between Mohammerah and Turkey.’ [13v] (26/82)
The record is made up of 1 file (41 folios, 5 maps). It was created in 3 Apr 1912. 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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objections to the proposals about Moliammerah
would not be easily overcome: this forecast
proved correct.
A treaty was eventually signed at Erzeroum
in 1847 : but the settlement was onlv one in s i r Kembalh
* {Verbatim.)
semblance, as, before consenting to the con
clusion even of the Preliminary Treaty, the Porte
required that assurances should be given to it as
to the meaning of some of the articles, and made
conformity with its views on the part of Persia
indispensable to its acceptance of the proposed
engagement.
After considerable negotiations, in which the Cowley,
0 ' No. 179,
Persian Government, or its agents, took no part, June 2, 1847.
it was arranged, with a view to secure the pre
liminary signature of the Treaty, that the desired
assurances should be given in writing by the
representatives of the two mediating Governments
at Constantinople; and, as a further precaution
against their rejection by the Persian Com
missioner on the spot, and his consequent refusal
to sign the Treaty, it was determined to keep
him in ignorance of the arrangement. It was
hoped, indeed, that the Treaty once signed, the
Persian Government would be readily induced
to indorse these " assurances," or, if not so
induced, it was argued, the Persian Government
might still, if it pleased, decline to ratify the
Treaty.
•/
The Porte for the nonce accepted this com
promise, but at the same time declared emphati
cally that, if the Persian Government did not
adopt the assurances, the Treaty must be con
sidered nul et non avenu.
Under these circumstances, tbe Treaty was
signed.
The assurances in question did not, however. Colonel Sheil,
meet with the concurrence of the Persian Govern- 1 g4 7i
ment. Fearing some covert object which it
could not comprehend, it persisted in its dissent
from them to the liepresentatives of the mediating
Governments at Tehran, and the course it deter
mined to pursue, without refusing to ratify the
Treaty, was simply to ignore them. Its Pleni- Lord^owley,
potentiary, therefore, acting presumably on the February 2;
tacit recognition by all parties of the views of his 16)1848>
Government, declined to exchange ratifications Lord Hioomfield,
if the ratifications of the Porte were to be coupled No. 34,
. e , February 2o, 1848.
with arriere-pensees as to the import ot the To Lord Cowley,
Treaty; but, yielding eventually to extreme No. 38,
, , i. * i i March 15, 1848.
pressure exercised by the mediating Ambassadors
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The memorandum concerns the border between Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] and Turkey, and was prepared by Alwyn Parker of the Foreign Office. There are a number of labels at the top of the first page: ‘Persia’, ‘Confidential’ and ‘Section 10’. The memorandum sections are as follows:
- Part I. A preface (folios 1-5), introducing the points at issue, with two maps, the first being a sketch map of the Mohammerah district, with the proposed Turkish, Persian and mediating commissioner’s lines indicated (folio 2), and a map compiled from plane table surveys by Lieutenant Arnold Talbot Wilson in 1909, with the frontier as defined by the mediating commissioners in 1850 (folio 4);
- Part II. An historical summary (folios 6-19) of British Government correspondence relating to the border dispute, with the chief focus being on correspondence exchanged during the period 1843-52, around the time of the Treaty of Erzeroum (c.1848). This part contains two copies of a map, a facsimile of a diagram of the disputed area, the original of which was enclosed by Colonel Williams in his despatch of 4 February 1850, indicating Turkish and Persian claims and the mediating commissioner’s proposal (folios 15, 19);
- Part III. Conclusion (folios 20-28), with a further map (folio 23), an exact copy of that found on folio 4.
The appendices that follow are:
- A: British assurances given to the Shaikh of Mohammerah, 1899 and 1902-10;
- B. Protocol of December 1911 (in French) for the proposal settlement of the Turco-Persian frontier question;
- C. An extract from Sir Austen Henry Layard’s Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia , published in 1887. The extract is from volume 2, pp 431-439;
- D. Rough notes made by General William Monteith when in Persia, on the frontier of Turkey and Persia, as communicated to the Foreign Office in 1843;
- E. Observations by Sir Henry Rawlinson on a Persian memorandum relative to the situation of the cities of Mohammerah and Fellahiah [Fallāḥīyah], 1844;
- F. Text of the Treaty of Erzeroum, 31 May 1847, in English and French translation;
- G. Copy of a despatch from Sir Stratford Canning, the British Ambassador to Istanbul, to Lord Palmerston, Foreign Secretary, dated 30 May 1850;
- H. Copy of a despatch from Lord Palmerston to Lord Broomfield, dated 12 July 1850.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (41 folios, 5 maps)
- Arrangement
The memorandum is arranged into three parts, labelled I, II and III, which are followed by eight lettered appendices, A-H. Historic correspondence referred to in the memorandum is referenced in the inside page margin.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the last folio; 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 booklet contains an original typed pagination sequence.
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- ‘Memorandum respecting the frontier between Mohammerah and Turkey.’
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- 1r:1v, 3r:14v, 16r:18v, 20r:30v, 33r:41v
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