File 3877/1912 Pt 5 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil interests’ [‎17r] (35/60)

It in reo nested that in any further communication
on this subject the under-mentioned letter and
"number may he quoted, and the reply addressed to —
The Under Secretary of State for India,
Political Department,
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. ,
London, S. W.
P.
Telegraphic Address :
RETAXANDUM, LONDON.
minim a«¥i
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. ,
WHITEHALL.
LONDON, S.W.
lat April 1916.
3ir #
1 m dir^cUd by th** llMrutary of \t\Ui for
India to aoluiovl*d&o tho of your l«tu»r /•564C1
of 29th arc.-*, and in reply to my that ho ia not aware
whether lany ariti^i conooeoxona oxiat in territory
which Kuaaia ia likely to acquire in Asia iuor. i>ut
two of the utationa of the Archbishop' s lisiion to the
is Syrian Ciiriati'uis ■.uro cppcmtily xu >uch torri tory
win. il'ioso fit % ->f * v ul'.h"i»'?rh, aiad A^ndia.
«i Gowennwit eho^ld oak# Tt
» *
to tho^e isade by the r'ronch ovsru;
lions si ailar
•* •
o enquire whether it
Irwbl# j md possible
He further lirocts m
is, iu Sir B. Grsy’a opinion, <
at tJto preaont in ct>c-i iJw aa.ae raaorrationa a*
r^-\rti .5 territory that will u»<l->r ronch
adniniatmtion or influence• ‘It 'fill be bom# in Blind
that Hi# Ssajeat/'s (Joferwiwit hare aupoorteo the cl iiw
af : r. D*Ar#y to a ooac###ion of all oil depoaita in
the viinyote at i-oaul md P.v’dad; and *li#ther or not it
may be •JO*»ibl# to aaintain Uiia claim apninat the
/ranch in it« entirety, it would ieera adviaable to keep
in our hands, if possible, material for bor-^ininr. It
is
'he Under Secretary of State,
Foreign Office.