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File 3877/1912 Pt 3 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ [234r] (233/372)
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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Sir Edward Grey to Sir L. Mallet (Constantinople).
(No 262.) R. ^ Foreign Office, June 12, 1914, 5*45 p.m.
YOUR telegram No. 334 . ...
I agree to postponement for a few days as you suggest, but it is desirable that
before 1st July final agreement should be signed, and not merely favourable reply
No reply has been received from Hakki
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
respecting local feeder lines and
Arabian lines, and unfavourable reply has been made about suggested new paragraph
to article 5 of monopolies agreement. ...... 7 , , . •.
The monopolies agreement has now been initialled ad referendum, but it cannot
be signed until the Mesopotamian oil question is settled, and I should be glad to get
the additional paragraph to article 5 agreed to. If this is done, I am quite prepared
to agree to discussion of feeder lines and Arabian lines taking place later at
Constantinople if you think there is really no prospect of Ottoman Government
authorising Hakki
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
to give us some assurances now on these points : they need
not form part of the agreement itself, but might be embodied in a separate note.
I do not quite understand Grand Vizier’s proposal to withdraw Hakki
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
before he has signed the agreements which he has negotiated. The position, as your
Excellency is aware, is that he cannot sign railways agreement until Turkis
negotiations with Bagdad Railway Company are completed. You might explain this
to his Highness and ask him when this will be. i a
The only other outstanding points are the monopolies agreement, the Smyrn
Aidin agreement and the pecuniary claims agreement. It is only when these
documents are signed that Hakki
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
could be recalled, unless Turkish Government
want to break off negotiations altogether. I understand from Ger^s tha their
agreement with Turkey could easdy be settled m one day. 11 so your Excellency
might suggest that Hakki
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
could be given authority to sign all outstanding
documents here next week.
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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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