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File 1421/1908 Pt 2 'Persia: oil; Ahwaz oil guard' [201r] (405/482)
The record is made up of 1 item (239 folios). It was created in Oct 1907-Nov 1910. 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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CONFIDENTIAL.
Sir Edward Grey to Mr. Marling {Tehran).
(No. 182.) Foreign Office, November 21, 1907, 4*35 p.m.
[AHWAZ Consular Guard.]
Your telegram of 20th November.
His Majesty’s Consul-General at Bushire has recommended twenty men and two'
British officers, and only speaks of two camps.
Indian Government are prepared to send this, and we are asking them to do so.
We cannot undertake to send force sufficient to secure uninterrupted working at
five separate camps ; our object is to prevent total abandonment of enterprise and to
protect British lives, which, in case of danger, could he concentrated at one or two-
camps.
t^uTu 22 /W
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•, • ; , From Viceroy, 11th November 1907.
Forsio-n Secret. My telegram of the 15th October. We have ascertained
that infantry guard, with eight mounted men, wmuld be preferable to cavalry
for protectio y n g of Oil Syndicate camps. Numbers ^-^^emam rmAa^d,
Cl 400 to CS) LorinJr telegraphed on 29th October that,
in view of general state of things, guards should be sent as soon as possfo e,
if their despatch is decided on. We await your instructions on the subject.
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Part 2 consists of correspondence relating to the deployment of a consular guard at Ahwaz to protect British subjects working in the region. The correspondence is between the Government of India, Foreign Office, 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 representatives of Concessions Syndicate Ltd (later Anglo-Persian Oil Company). Included as enclosures are letters, telegrams, and memoranda from the following:
- British Minister to Persia;
- George B Reynolds, geologist for Concessions Syndicate Ltd;
- Lieutenant-Colonel David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer, Vice-Consul in Arabistan, at Ahwaz;
- Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary;
- British Treasury;
- Percy Cox, 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , at Bushire;
- William Knox D'Arcy, petroleum entrepreneur.
The papers cover several matters, including:
- the size of the guard and length of the period of deployment;
- the question of who will bear the cost of the guard and its accommodation;
- pay and allowances of staff;
- relations between the Bakhtiari tribes and the Syndicate;
- an increase to the guard at Isfahan;
- the proposal to replace Government of India guards with local Bakhtiari men.
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