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File 3877/1912 Pt 4 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ [108r] (157/176)
The record is made up of 1 part (87 folios). It was created in 22 Apr 1914-15 Sep 1914. 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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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty’s GovernTYTArrh]
4 TURKEY.
[May 15.]
CONFIDENTIAL.
Section 1.
ft9856j-
No. 1 .
Foreign Office to Central Mining and Investment Corporation
(Confidential.)
Sir, Foreign Office, May 15, 1914.
I AM directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of the 4th instant respecting petroleum rights in the vilayets of Mosul, Bagdad, and
dated the 5th March, 1903, the Ottoman Government granted to the concessionnaire
thereunder the right to work any mines they might discover within a zone of
and Bagdad.
After prolonged negotiations, the interests of the Bagdad Railway Company,
acquired under a formal international convention, and those of Mr. D’Arcy, which were
also definitely assured, were merged, on terms which, in the opinion of His Majesty’s
Government, sufficiently protect all British interests, in the Turkish Petroleum
Company, a company which both His Majesty’s Government and the German
Government have undertaken to support. The final grant of the concession to this
company has been made an essential condition of the assent of His Majesty’s Govern
ment to the desired increase of the Turkish customs duties from 11 per cent, to
15 per cent, ad valorem, and to the institution of certain monopolies in Turkey.
With regard to the first enclosure in your letter, I am to inform you that His
Majesty’s Government have fully satisfied themselves as to the arrangements to which
reference is made, and the point has not, as seems to be supposed, been overlooked.
In the circumstances explained, which have already been put before both
Lord Cowdray and Lord Murray of Elibank in full detail orally, I am to state that
Basra, a subject in regard to which Lord Cowdray had an interview at this Office on
the 9th ultimo, and Lord Murray of Elibank a further interview on the 1 st instant.
I am to inform you that, under article 22 of the Bagdad Railway Convention,
20 kilom. on each side of the line, and that, on two subsequent dates, the Ottoman
Government promised to Mr. D’Arcy, a British subject who was the first to apply for
the support of His Majesty’s Government, and to whom that support was formally
promised and has consistently been given, a concession for the oil deposits of Mosul
Sir E. Grey is unable to support or assist your group at Constantinople.
I am, &c.
EYRE A. CROWE.
[2136 p—l]
2 MAY 19U
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Correspondence and papers relating to claims for exploratory oil licenses in Ottoman Turkey (including the vilayets of Baghdad, Mosul and Basra in Mesopotamia [Iraq], and Syria and Nejd). Principal correspondents include: the solicitors Treherne, Higgins and Company, who represent the oil explorer Roland H Silley; representatives of the Central Mining and Investment Corporation Limited (L Reynolds; Louis Julius Reyersbach); Foreign Office (FO) officials (Sir Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe; Sir Louis Du Pan Mallet).
- correspondence concerning Silley’s claims (competing with those made by the D’Arcy Group and Anglo-Persian Oil Company) over mining rights in the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad, an historical précis of which can be found in a letter dated 14 May 1914 from Treherne, Higgins & Company to the Foreign Office (ff 111-112);
- correspondence concerning Silley’s attempts to secure oil licenses in Nejd, Silley’s efforts to contact the prospective Vali of Nejd, Bin Saud (‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd), and discussion amongst FO officials over the prospects of the Turkish Petroleum Company (in large part financed by Deutsche Bank and the Dutch Anglo-Saxon Oil Company) having a presence in Arabia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ;
- a note, written by Sulaiman Nassif, enclosed with a letter dated 27 April 1914, on petroleum prospecting concession licenses in Syria (f 105).
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front.
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