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‘Memorandum respecting the frontier between Mohammerah and Turkey.’ [21r] (41/82)
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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For facility of reference, the first argument
may be designated that of the zone, and the
second that of the status quo. It may also he
remarked here that the two lines of frontier, that
of the Mediating Commissioners and the one
locally recognised, are, at the point where they
leave the river, about 6J miles apart, and that
both are within the limits of the above-mentioned
zone.
The argument of the
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.
that the
Mediating Commissioners' line has been can
celled is based on what took place subsequent to
1850, the diplomatic transactions prior to that
date being altogether ignored.
Now the Mediating Commissioners proposed a
line at another point on the frontier, in the
district of Zohab, much further north ; and it
may, perhaps, be conceded that, in regard to the
line drawn at Zohab, the recommendation of the
Mediating Commissioners has been superseded by
the communication made some twenty years later
that the boundary would be found somewhere
within the zone 40 miles wide.
Be this as it may, the case of the line recom
mended by the Mediating Commissioners in the
Mohammerah district is essentially different,
owing to the special negotiations which took
place in regard to that particular district before
the Mediating Commissioners proposed their line
in ] 850.
These antecedent negotiations were succinctly
as follows:—•
Article 2 of the Treaty of Erzeroum (1847)
contained a clause providing that " the town and
port of Mohammerah, the island of El Khizr, the
anchorage place, and the lands on the eastern,
that is the left, bank of the Shatt-el-Arab, which
are in possession of tribes recognised as subject
to Persia, shall be in possession of the Persian
Government in full sovereignty. Besides this,
Persian vessels shall have the right to navigate
in full liberty the Shatt-el-Arab from the place
where it enters the sea to the point of junction
of the frontiers of the two parties."
Before signing this treaty, Turkey insisted on
receiving assurances inter alia as to the meaning
of the above provision, and, before she would
ratify it, she required that the Persian Envoy at
Constantinople should accept them formally,
which he did in a written note and "in virtue
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- Title
- ‘Memorandum respecting the frontier between Mohammerah and Turkey.’
- Pages
- 1r:1v, 3r:14v, 16r:18v, 20r:30v, 33r:41v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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