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File 1356/1912 Pt 2 'Turco-Persian Frontier:- negotiations at Constantinople. (Mohammerah Boundary)' [‎183r] (374/680)

The record is made up of 1 volume (334 folios). It was created in 26 Aug 1912-4 Sep 1913. 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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[This Document is the Property of Kis Britannic Majesty’s Government,]
I HAVE read with much interest the suggestions formulated by Hakki Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. for
the settlement of the Turco-Persian frontier question which you were so good as to
communicate to me in your telegram No. 132 of the 9th instant (repeating your
telegram No. 204 of the same date to Sir G. Buchanan).
The first three points are, I venture to think, entirely acceptable, but No. 4 calls
for some observations. We can, I think, subscribe in general to the principle that the
Sunni tribes should be placed under Turkey—the principle “ Sunni for lurkey and
Shia for Persia ” clearly had considerable influence with MM. Orlof and Soane in
laving down the line- which you are disposed to adopt for the purposes of making
certain territorial cessions to Turkey—but I think that it would be more prudent in
view of the rather imperfect state of our knowledge of the Zohab district not to adopt
it as a rigid rule.
1 must confess that I do not understand what is intended by the request loi
cessions to Turkey of districts north-east and south of Zohab, and of some locality
near Mendeli. So far as I am aware the districts to the north-east and south of Zohab
are inhabited by Shiite tribes, and therefore could not be included in Hakki Pasha’s
claim that Sunni tribes are to pass to Turkey, and it would, therefore, I submit, be
well to ascertain what districts are contemplated so that we may be in a position to get
more precise information before committing ourselves to any expiession of opinion on
Hakki Pashas proposal, The same prudence should be observed in connection
with any cession in the neighbourhood of Mendeli, which town, accoidmg to
Captain D. L. R. Lorimer’s report on Pusht-i-Kuh, is quite close to the boundaries of
Pusht-i-Kuh. The Vali of Pusht-i-Kuh is a powerful and semi-independent Persian
chieftain, and anv arrangement that would give him plausible ground for grievance
should be avoided. There are one or two places on the iurco-Pusht-i-Kuh border
such as Sevid Hussein Kale and the Baksai lands which are a source of constant
dispute between the Turks and the Vali, and it is possible that one ol these is the
district alluded to by Hakki Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. : they can, however, be scarcely described as
near Mendeli. , , . .,i .i
I understand that the Russian Ambassador is m general agreement with the
foregoing observations.
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PERSIA
““{March 26.]
CONFIDENTIAL.
Section 1,
[13759]
No. 1.
Sir G. Lowther to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received March 26.)
(No. 226.)
Sir,
Constantinople t March 20, 1913.
GERALD LOWTHER. .
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[2836 cc—1]

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The volume discusses the ongoing negotiations in Constantinople between the Ottoman, British and Russian Governments through 1912 and 1913 regarding the Turco-Persian Frontier. Also discussed is the decision in July 1913 to establish a delimitation commission to which Albert Charles Wratislaw and Arnold Talbot Wilson are appointed as representatives of the British Government.

Also discussed in the volume is the region of Kermanshah and in particular Qasr-i-Shirin [Qaşr-e Shīrīn], along with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company's concerns over the rights accorded to them in their 1901 concession should some of that territory be ceded to Turkey.

Further discussion relates to the movements of Russian and Turkish troops near the frontier and the withdrawal of Turkish troops from certain places along the frontier.

This volume is part two of two. Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 volume (334 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

The subject 1356 (Turco-Persian Frontier) consists of 2 volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/266-267. The volumes are divided into 2 parts, with each part comprising one volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 334; 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 foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the two leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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