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File 3877/1912 Pt 3 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ [224r] (213/372)
The record is made up of 1 part (184 folios). It was created in 16 Mar 1914-25 Nov 1915. 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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CONFIDENTIAL.
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Sir L. Mallet to Sir Edward Grey .—(Received June 25, 4*30 p.m.)
(No. 380.)
MY telegram No. 377 of 24th June.
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Constantinople, June 25, 1914.
(June 25, 215 p.m.)
Grand Vizier told me this morning that Porte agreed to give Turkish Petroleum 1
Company lease of concession of oil-wells of Mesopotamia subject to details being f
settled between company and Ministry. ” {I
They would also instruct Hakkf
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
to accept Pecuniary Claims Convention,
though they could not understand why we would not accept what was acceptable to
the French Government.
They must, however, insist on admission of Turkish directors to board of Smyrna
Rad way. Every other foreign railway company had accepted this, and it was a subject
upon which they felt very strongly.
Just after leaving his Highness, whom I fear I shall not be able to see until
Saturday, I received your telegram No. 279 of 24th June. I have visited my German
colleague, who tells me that his negotiations are not yet finished but are progressing
satisfactorily. They might possibly be finished in about a week’s time. He will keep
me informed. He has sent to ask for his answer respecting share of oil concession.
We propose to ask for it in writing.
I have ceaselessly pressed upon Grand Vizier and upon all his colleagues
inconvenience of delay, and they are fully aware of your wish to have everything
settled by 1st July. I [? have made] every endeavour to persuade Djavid Bey
yesterday to agree to your proposal respecting Shatt-el-Arab Commission, but he flatly
refused, and said that he could not go further than giving them the right to be
consulted. He said that they had undertaken to keep the river open to navigation,
which should be a sufficient guarantee of their good faith. I will, however, again
urge your wishes upon the Grand Vizier, if possible, to-morrow.
f 600—461]
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The volume is a chronological continuation of File 3877/1912 Pt 2 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ (IOR/L/PS/301), and comprises papers concerning ongoing negotiations over oil concessions for the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad, in which the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), Deutsche Bank, the British-backed National Bank of Turkey, and the Anglo-Saxon Oil Company (ASOC, a division of Royal Dutch Shell) are the principal claimants. The principal correspondents include: the Director of APOC (Charles Greenway); Foreign Office officials (Sir Louis Du Pan Mallet; Sir Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe); the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey); the Admiralty (William Graham Greene).
The papers cover:
- correspondence dated 1914 regarding a claim made by Roland H Silley, represented in the correspondence by his solicitors Treherne, Higgins and Company, to concessionary rights in Mesopotamia;
- proposals for APOC to represent the D’Arcy Group, the original British claimants to oil concession rights in Mesopotamia;
- an agreement made between representatives of the British and German Governments, the National Bank of Turkey, ASOC, Deutsche Bank and the D’Arcy Group (APOC), dated 19 March 1914, for the ‘Fusion of Interests in Turkish Petroleum Concessions of the D’Arcy Group and of the Turkish Petroleum Company’ (f 271);
- efforts, in late October and November 1914, to maintain the agreement of 19 March 1914, in spite of Britain now being at war with Turkey, including a letter from Greenway, dated 2 November 1914, stressing the importance of carrying through the concessions arrangements without delay (ff 156-161);
- a minute, with no indication of author, dated January 1915 which offers a concise précis of the history of oil concessions in Mesopotamia, and the background to the agreement of 19 March 1914 (f 143);
- in 1915, discussion amongst Foreign Office officials over the validity of the agreement signed on 19 March 1914, in response to events of the First World War.
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- 1 part (184 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front.
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