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'Memorandum on the Special Mission to Seistan and Mekran.' [119r] (3/10)
The record is made up of 1 file (5 folios). It was created in 31 Dec 1874. 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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Letter to Foreign
Office, 21st March
1370.
Letter from
Foreign Office,
14th April 1870.
Autograph Letter
from the Shah,
enclosed in Letter
from Mr. Thom
son to Lord
Clarendon, No. 39
of 15 th April 1870.
Enclosure 3 in
above Letter,
No. 39, of loth |
April 1870.
Letter from
Foreign Office,
14th April 1870.
Letter to Foreign
Office, 30th April
1870.
Letter from
Foreign Office,
3rd May 1870.
“ certain limits, Persia must abstain altogether
“ from military operations in Mekran, and that her
officers must he prevented from attempting any
“ encroachment upon the territory now in pos
session of the Khan of Khelat, pending a formal
investigation of her claims in that quarter.”
Upon this the Duke of Argyll caused a letter
to be addressed to the Foreign Office, inquiring
whether any and what notice was to be taken
** by Lord Clarendon of the suggestion contained
“ therein.”
No reply was sent by the Foreign Office to this
communication, but shortly afterwards Lord Cla
rendon caused a telegram from Her Majesty’s
Charge d’Affaires at Teheran to be transmitted to
this Office, the purport of which was a proposal of
the Shah respecting the settlement of the Mekran
boundary. His Majesty’s exact words were,
“ Respecting Khelat, the demarcation of boundaries
“ between Persia, Beluchistan, and Khelat has not
“ yewbeen clearly defined. If the British Govern-
“ ment is desirous that the said line of frontier be
“ traced, let Commissioners be sent by the three
“ parties to the frontier, that is to say, by England,
“ Persia, and Khelat, and let them settle the
“ boundary line, otherwise, if the frontier be not
“ defined, these difficulties will be daily recurring.”
Mr. Thomson at this time wrote to Mirza Saeed
Khan, the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs,
that His Excellency might feel assured that Her
Majesty’s Government would be prepared, in a
friendly spirit, to assist in the arrangement of any
difficulties which might have arisen between His
Majesty the Shah and the Khan of Khelat.
Note .—The Mekran portion of the arbitration
absolutely emanated from the Shah of Persia
in communication with Her Majesty’s Charge
d’Affaires at Teheran, who, in his turn, com
municated His Majesty’s wishes to the Secre
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, as the
authority primarily responsible for the settle
ment of complications between Persia and our
allied Eastern States.
The Foreign Office forwarded, for the considera
tion of the Secretary of State for India, the above-
mentioned proposal made by the Shah for submitting
the ca^e to arbitration. The Duke of Argyll re
plied that, if Lord Clarendon concurred in the
expediency of such an arrangement, His Grace
“ would address Lord Mayo with respect to the
“ selection of an officer to represent the British
“ Government on this occasion.”
Lord Clarendon’s reply was couched in the fol
lowing terms,—
“ His Lordship concurs in the expediency of
carrying out the arrangement referred to in your
letter of the 30th ultimo, with the view to the de
finition of the line of frontier between Persia, Balu
chistan, and Khelat, as it may have the effect of
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The memorandum provides a brief overview of correspondence between 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. and the Foreign Office, on the subject of the boundary commissions for Seistan and Mekran [Makran] in 1872; headed by Frederic John Goldsmid. It is noted that the Foreign Office's refusal to pay a share of the costs of the aforementioned missions is the motivation for producing it; 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. had expected the costs of these missions to be shared between the Imperial (i.e. London) and Indian governments.
The author of the memorandum, and manuscript notes (in pencil), is Owen Tudor Burne, Secretary, Political Department.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at f 118, and terminates at f 122, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, 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 item also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 118r:122v
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