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‘Memorandum respecting the frontier between Mohammerah and Turkey.’ [16r] (31/82)
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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late Her Majesty's Consul at Bagdad, who happens to be
here, has confirmed this statement. But this is a question
which must be left to the decision of the commission.
It is clear, then, that the Explanatory Note
refers in particular to those very lands on
the left bank of the Shatt-el-Arab, above Moham-
merah, which Lieutenant Wilson and the British
Resident in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
wish now that His
Majesty's Government should claim, at all events
in part, as being within the territorial limits of
the present Sheikh of Mohammerah ; in other
words, that His Majesty's Government should
now deny to Turkey possession of those very
lands which it was the primary object of the
Explanatory Note to secure to her.
Whether or not there are factors tending
to justify, or even to excuse, such an attitude on
the part of Jlis Majesty's Government will be
reserved for discussion in the final part of this
memorandum.
First and Second
Conferences at
Mohammerah,
January 28 and 29,
1850.
" Chaldfea and
Susiana," by
W. K. Loft us.
(C).— The attempt of the Mediating Powers to de
marcate the frontier in accordance with the
Treaty. Period 1850-52.
Owing to various delays the Delimitation
Commissioners did not assemble at Mohammerah,
to start operations, till January 1650. The
British Commissioner was again Colonel Williams;
the Russian was Colonel TchirikofT, who subse
quently published a book giving his experiences ;
and the Ottoman and Persian Commissioners
were respectively Dervish
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
and Mirza
Jaffer Khan.
The Ottoman Commissioner at the outset pro
ceeded to allege proofs of ancient Ottoman
suzerainty over the tribes in possession near
Mohammerah, and recorded his claim to all the
country indicated within the green line traced
on the annexed map, with the exception only
of the walled town of Mohammerah and the
island of El Khizr. In most lawyer-like maimer
he argued, like Portia in the " Merchant of
Venice ":—
This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood;
The words expressly are, a pound of tiesh.
Then take thy bond,—take thou the pound of flesh.
According to the letter of the Treaty, he was
content to deliver up the walled town and the
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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.
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- 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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- 1r:1v, 3r:14v, 16r:18v, 20r:30v, 33r:41v
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