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File 52/1912 Pt 1 'Persia Diaries' [11r] (26/900)
The record is made up of 1 volume (448 folios). It was created in 11 Dec 1911-27 Dec 1913. It was written in English and Farsi. 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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CONFIDENTIAL.
Diary of the Military Attache, Meshed
ending the 20th
i ■ sjrL,
No. 49, for the week
HlSTOilY.
683. Official movements, British. —(a) His Britannic Majesty’s Consul-General,
Meshed, and Agent of the Government of India in Khorasan :—Major P. M.
Sykes, C.M.G., C.LE., left Meshed on 20 th November for England, via Badkan,
Muhammadabad, Artik (Central Asian Railway), Merv, old Merv, Tashkent,
Orenburg and Moscow. He handed over the duties of Acting Consul-General to
Captain R. H. Thorburn, I.M.S., Vice-Consul, Meshed.
Lieutenant-Colonel T. W. Haig, C.M.G., the new Consul-General, is ex
pected to arrive in Meshed on 21 st December.
( 6 ) Military Attache, Meshed. —Captain E. G. Marsh, 9th Gurkha Rifles,
arrived in Meshed on 16th November from Askhabad. On the afternoon of 23rd
November he took over the duties of Military Attache from Major E, A. F. Redl,
113th Infantry. Major Redl left Meshed on 24th November for India, via Askh
abad, Batoum and Constantinople.
684. Belgian enterprise in Asia. (Reference paragraph 660).— The Belgian
Ministry of Commerce and Industry has organized a special department for
Asiatic affairs. This department is employed on the question of suitable open
ings for the use of Belgian capital in Russian Turkestan, China and Mongolia.
685. Russian enterprise in Persia. (Reference paragraph 663).— A company
has been formed in Tashkent for the acquisition of land in the province of Astra-
bad, where valuable land is being sold at very low prices.
686 . Coal. —The present price of coal in Russian Turkestan is from 50 to 60
kopeks per pud (from £ 3-6-8 to £4 per ton).
087 . Oil. —(Reference paragraph 676). Mr. Sutherland is buying an oil-field
from the firm of Vladimir Alexeief.
688 . Agriculture.—The grants of land in Golodnaya Steppe, which are to be
made in April 1914, will be given out in holdings of from 20 to 25 acres. The
grantees are to be only Russian subjects of the Orthodox Church, with at least
£110 private capital and a working knowledge of agriculture.
The north-east portion of the Steppe is irrigated by the new Romanovski
canal (reference paragraph 663). The central and southern parts will be watered
by cuts, leading from the River Zeravshan, and in this connection reservoirs
are to be constructed on the heights of Zeravshan and Sanzar.
Building-sites will be allotted in the new settlement of Syr-Darinsk in April
1914. The development of the Steppe and the construction of the railway from
Syr-Darinsk to Jizak will, it is expected, stimulate the growth of Jizak, but on
the other hand the importance of Chernysevo will be lessened, as that station and
town will be off the main line, Tashkent-Samarkand.
Irrigation works are being taken in hand at Khojend, where a new canal,
6 ^ miles in length, will tap the waters of the River Khoji Bakgiran at its exit from
the hills near Aucha, and will supply the new town of Khojend, which is to be
built at about § mil e from the railway station. The canal will bring some 7,500
acres of land under irrigation.
Military.
689. Appointments and Retirements.—It is rumoured in Tashkent that
General Samsonof will shortly be promoted and reheved of his present appoint
ment.
Resources.
14FEB19U . lNDIA| foreign Secretary s
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This volume contains copies of the weekly diary of the British Military Attaché in Meshed [Mashhad]; the weekly consular diary of Britain's Consul in Khorasan; and the weekly consular diary of the Consul for Sistan and Kain.
The reports of the Military Attaché in Meshed are divided into the following sections: Communications, Telegraphs, Navigation, Ethnography, Administration, Geography, History, Military and Resources. The Consular diaries are less formulaic and more varied in content, but all contain a political summary.
On folio 344, the volume contains a copy of an illustration that depicts the bombardment of the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad by Russian forces that took place in 1912. A translation of the Farsi poem that appears around the illustration is contained on folio 343.
The volume includes a divider which gives the year that the subject file was opened and the subject heading. This divider is placed at the front of the volume.
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- 1 volume (448 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file. The subject 52 (Persia Diaries) consists of 3 volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/209-211.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 448; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- File 52/1912 Pt 1 'Persia Diaries'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:342v, 345r:447v, back-i
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