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File 240/1913 'Mohammerah - Khoremabad Railway; the Khor Musa agreement' [19r] (42/452)
The record is made up of 1 volume (222 folios). It was created in 27 Nov 1912-14 Apr 1913. It was written in English, Farsi 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 Eis Britannic Majesty's Government.]
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H PERSIA. I
[March 13.]
CONFIDENTIAL.
Section 9.
[11713] No. 1.
Mr. Greenway to Foreign Office.—(Received March 13.)
Winchester House, Old Broad, Street,
Sir, London, March 11, 1913.
I BEG to enclose copy of a telegram which I have received from Mr. Wood
in reply to mine of the 5th instant.
As you will see, the Persian Government are attempting to disavow the
negotiations earned on with them by Mr. Preece in 1910, culminating in his letter
of the 13th October, 1910.
This letter defines the only conditions which had been stipulated for by the
Persian Government apart from those contained in the draft concession which w^as
originally presented by Mr. Preece. It had been agreed that the concession should
be granted on these terms, and it was only the sudden collapse of the Cabinet that
prevented the final completion of the contract.
The draft concession now before the Persian Government is the same as the
one originally presented by Mr. Preece, with the exception of the slight alterations
relative to railways recently introduced, and their refusal to accept this is unreasonable
and totally at variance with the understanding on which the option for the
Mohammerah-Khoremabad Bailway was accepted by us.
From a letter which has come to hand from Mr. Wood to-day it would appear that
the Persian Government are repudiating the negotiations conducted by Mr. Preece
on the ground that
Vakil
Elected representative or attorney, acting in legal matters such as contracting marriage, inheritance, or business; a high-ranking legal official; could also refer to a custodian or administrator.
-il-lioyah was not an authorised representative of the
Government, but this contention is quite untenable.
When Mr. Preece arrived in Tehran he was requested by His Majesty’s Acting
Minister—Mr. Marling—to see
Vakil
Elected representative or attorney, acting in legal matters such as contracting marriage, inheritance, or business; a high-ranking legal official; could also refer to a custodian or administrator.
-il-Boyah and to deal with him as the accredited
representative of the Persian Government, both in this matter and in the matter of
the settlement of the question of the rent payable by the Anglo-Persian Oil
Company in respect of certain oil springs, his action in which latter matter was
accepted by the Persian Government. Moreover,
Vakil
Elected representative or attorney, acting in legal matters such as contracting marriage, inheritance, or business; a high-ranking legal official; could also refer to a custodian or administrator.
-il-Boyah was at the same
time conducting with the Imperial Bank officials (with whom Mr. Preece was
co-operating in the above matters) all the negotiations connected with the Imperial
Bank loan of 1,250,000Z., with the Mint contract, and with the Strick oxide
concession, and his actions in all these affairs were duly confirmed and accepted by
the Persian Government.
I attach a copy of my reply to Mr. Wood’s telegram, and I shall be much
obliged if His Majesty’s Government can see their way to supporting this by
indicating to the Persian Government that their action in this matter is most
unsatisfactory, and that inasmuch as it has been a stipulation from the first that
our assistance in railway construction was conditional upon the granting of the
mining concession, their refusal to grant ttys concession on the terms previously
agreed, and the introduction by them of a number of new and quite impracticable
conditions, is a breach of faith on their part which cannot be permitted.
As pointed out to Mr. Wood in my telegram of the 5th instant, the draft
concession previously agreed to by the Persian Government is practically in the same
terms as the D’Arcy oil concession, which has never, I believe, been questioned or
considered as in any way unfavourable to Persia, and consequently there is no
justification whatever for bringing forward these new proposals if the Persian
Government have any serious desire to fulfil their obligations to us.
I am, &c.
C. GREENWAY.
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The volume contains memoranda, correspondence and telegrams, and minutes of letters between British officials regarding railway constructions in Persia, focussing on the line planned between Mohammerah [Khorramshahr, Iran] and Khoremabad [Khorramabad, Iran].
The subjects covered are:
- the leasing of land around Khor Musa to the British by the Ruler of Mohammerah, in 1912 (document in Farsi with English translation on ff 182-183);
- railway concessions agreed by Persian Government and negotiations with Persian Railways Syndicate;
- Persian Railways Syndicate's application for a mining concession in the Kerman district (Draft Concession on ff 52 and 53);
- the Julfa-Tabriz Railway Concession, in French (ff 62-63).
The main correspondents are: the Ruler of Mohammerah, Shaikh Kazal [Khaz‘al bin Jābir bin Mirdāw al-Ka‘bī], Persian Railways Syndicate Limited, the Imperial Bank of Persia, the 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. , the Foreign Office, and the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
Some correspondence is in Farsi and some letters in French, from the Russian Embassy in London, are present in the volume. A map of Persia and Afghanistan, showing the projected railways, is on folio 77.
The volume includes a divider which gives the year that the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in it arranged by year. This divider is placed at the front of the volume.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (222 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 240 (Mohammerah - Khoremabad Railway; the Khor Musa agreement) consists of one volume, IOR/L/PS/10/332.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 224; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The map, f 77, is a very large fold-out sized at A1.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:8v, 9v:15v, 17v:28r, 29r:36v, 37v:44v, 46r:47v, 50r:52r, 55r:61v, 64r:76v, 79r:92v, 94r:97v, 99r:113v, 115r:143v, 145r:173v, 175r:177v, 179r:181v, 184r:198v, 199v:209v, 211r:223v, back-i
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