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File 240/1913 'Mohammerah - Khoremabad Railway; the Khor Musa agreement' [‎67r] (138/452)

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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 His Britannic Majesty s Government.]
PERSIA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[February 12.]
Section 4.
[6782]
No. 1.
Mr. Greenway to Foreign Office .— (Jieceired February ]2.)
Winchester House, Old Broad Street, London,
g* r February 11, 1913.
REFERRING to my conversation with Mr. Parker, I beg to give below particulars
of a conversation which I had yesterday with M. Goukassof, a director ot the Socie e
d’Etucles, whom I happened to meet that afternoon :
1. M. Goukassof began by remarking that his group* had secured the concession
for the Julfa-Tabriz Railway, and presumed that we had also secured our concession.
1 expressed surprise at his being interested in the Julfa-Tabriz concession as
had understood that he was only concerned jn railways in I ersia as a member ol the
Societe d’Etudes, whereupon he explained that he was associated with M. Podgurski m
2 I suggested to him that it would be desirable to join up the Julia-lahriz Railway
with the Mohammerah-Khoremabad line, in order that a through connection might be
made from the Caspian to the Gulf, and indicated that if this was practicable our
syndicate might be prepared to co-operate with them. . . , ,
He replied that such a line would not be at all m Russian interests, as it would
give much greater facilities to British trade than to Russian, and went on to explain
that it was not their intention to carry on the line from Tabriz to Urmia, but that then
next objective after Tabriz was Kazvin, and eventually Tehran. . w ,
3 I then asked him how the capital lor his railway was to be obtained. He sa
that this point had not yet been settled, but that the line was to be built as a Russian
State Railway,” and that if the capital is not guaranteed by Persia it would either be
guaranteed by Russia or be provided for out of Russian State funds. . , ,
His replies on this point were somewhat vague, and gave me the impiession tha
the exact method of raising the capital had not yet been settled, but that, if a guarantee
from Persia were not asked for, it was the intention that the capital toi the pulw J
would be provided by the Russian Government as an advance to 1 ersia, possibly n
anticipation of some future loan. . .-i , T i ,,
v, having a further bearing on the above matter, I may mention that I leatned a
short time ago from Lord Grimthorpe that it was a syndicate t m which he, Messrs
Morton Griffiths and Co., and an American named Mr. Williams [sic], winch was some
time ago endeavouring to obtain the concession tor the Julfa-Tabriz Railway through
the Russian Government, and that after carrying on their negotiations for some time
Mr Williams, who was conducting the negotiations m St. Petersburgh, was lnfo ™ e ^
b v M Kokovtsof, the Finance Minister, that he need not trouble any more about this
concession, as the Government had decided to build this railway as a State line,
and therefore that no financial group would be allowed to secure the concession.
I am, &c.
G. GREENWAY, Chairman.
* This Dresumably does not mean his group in the Societu d’Etudes.—A. J’. , , r
| /l, the syndicate about which we were vainly endeavouring to get information eaih last year. . ..
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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.

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1 volume (222 folios)
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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.

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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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English, Farsi and French in Latin and Arabic script
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