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File 240/1913 'Mohammerah - Khoremabad Railway; the Khor Musa agreement' [135r] (274/452)
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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Sir G. Buchanan to Sir Edward Grey .—{Received January 25, 3-15 p.m.)
r ■ St. Petersburgh, January 25, 1913.
{January 25, 1’40 p.m.)
YOUR telegrams Nos. 52 and 55 of 21st and 23rd January.
1 have spoken to the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs as instructed.
He said that the Minister of Finance was very difficult to move, and that, though
the Russian Grovernment would do nothing against the present Persian Glovernment,
they had not sufficient confidence in them to pJace a large sum at their disposal. I
replied that the Russian Government would not be giving them a fair chance if they
refused to join us in an advance, and I expressed earnest hope that, after the
loyal support which you have given him throughout the Balkan crisis, he would
co-operate with you in supplying the Persian Government with sum they asked for.
He said that though he could not promise 250,000L he would use all the arguments
he could to induce the Minister of Finance to make a substantial advance as soon as
the two railway concessions were granted. As regards these concessions his Excellency
said that the fact that His Majesty s Government were asking the Persian Government
to give certain guarantees with regard to British railway, while the Russian Government
were asking for some for theirs, was calculated to delay the granting of the latter,
and the two concessions might therefore have to be treated separately.
On my speaking of a separate British advance for the gendarmerie to protect the
trade routes m the south, he said that we were at liberty to advance whatever sums we
liked for this purpose, and that we might do so at once without waiting for the
granting of the railway concessions.
15L -531]
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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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- English, Farsi and French in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- Title
- File 240/1913 'Mohammerah - Khoremabad Railway; the Khor Musa agreement'
- Pages
- 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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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