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File 240/1913 'Mohammerah - Khoremabad Railway; the Khor Musa agreement' [‎192v] (389/452)

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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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Majesty’s Government had told them that they had no objection in principle to the
line and, indeed, regarded it benevolently; , , ^ ^
( 2 .) That in 1903 Lord' Lansdowne had informed the Persian transport Lompp^
that whenever railway construction was permitted in Persia, due regard would, so .ar
as His Majesty’s Government were concerned, be had to their claims to preferential
treatment in respect of proposals for the construction of railways in districts traversed
by the roads of the company;
The syndicate were assured that with this exception His Majesty’s Government
had given no promise of support to any persons or syndicates in connection with
railway construction in Persia.
Memo.,
Oct. 14, ’08
[33780].
Minute on
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. ,
May 9, *10.
To Sir G.
Buchanan,
No. 129,
May 10, ’ll
[15143].
2 . With regard to the second question, on the .14th October, 1908, His Majesty's
chargi d’affaires at St. Petersburgh handed to M. Isvolsky a memorandum in which
he stated that His Majesty’s Government, besides the southern section of a line which
mio-ht be constructed from Julfa to Mohammerah, would specify, as the concessions
which mostly concerned them, the lines Bunder Abbas to Kerman, and Bunder Abbas
via Shiraz to Ahwaz, with the option to construct a port at Khor Musa.
To this communication no reply appears to have been made by the Prussian
Government.
In May 1911 His Majesty’s Ambassador at St. Petersburgh was instructed to
inform the Russian Government of the conditions on which His Majesty’s Government
were willing to assent in principle to the proposed Trans-Persian Railway and to agree
to the initiation ot negotiations between its promoters m St. 1 etersburgh and Lvindon,
One of these conditions was that Russia should support the demands made by Great
Britain on the Persian Government for the concession of the following lines .
(a.) From Mohammerah to Khoremabad, with a branch to a port to be constructed
at Khor Musa ; •
(b.) From Bunder Abbas or Charbar via Regan and Bam to Kerman ;
(c.) From Bushire via Aliabad to some point on a line
(d.) From Bunder Abbas via Shiraz to Ahwaz.
To Sir G.
Buchanan,
No. 134,
May 16, ’ll
[19356].
Mr.O’Beirne,
No. 181,
June 28, ’ll
[25701].
To Sir G.
Buchanan,
No. 192,
July 19, ’ll
[25701].
It was proposed that the main-line and those of the above branches which lie m
the neutral sphere, t.e., (a), (c),and (d), should be internationalised, but that the branch
in the British sphere should be a purely British project.
Sir G. Buchanan reported on the 16th May, 1911, that he had communicated
to the Russian Government the conditions of His Majesty s Government in this
connection.
On the 28th June following, Mr. O’Beirne reported that he had been informed by
M. Neratof that he had not intended to reply to Sir G. Buchanan’s communication,
and that it would be time enough to go into the detailed questions raised by the
conditions imposed by His Majesty’s Government when the ‘ Societe d Ltudes ^ had
completed its task. When dealing with the conditions laid down by Great Britain,
the Russian Government would probably put forwmrd conditions of their ovm, and this
would involve lengthy negotiations.
Sir G. Buchanan was told that it would not be necessary to press the Russian
Government for a reply until the “ Societe d’Etudes ” had made their report.
No more correspondence appears to have taken place on the subject to the end
of 1911.
G. de B.
Foreign Office, November 19, 1912.

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Content

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.

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
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