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File 948/1909 'Persia: Situation in the South; Condition of the Roads. Attack on Mr Bill. Road Guard Scheme.' [89r] (182/744)
The record is made up of 1 volume (370 folios). It was created in 1909-1911. It was written in English. 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.
Sir Edward Grey to Mr, O’Beirne (St. Petersburgh).
(No. 692.) - Foreign Office, November 18, 1910, 12*45 a.m.
YOUR telegram No. 315.
You should explain to Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs that the line which I
have been following in conjunction with Russian Government is to place the Persian
Government in a position to establish their authority and secure order in Persia. But
I have regarded it as one condition of this policy that Russian vested interests must
not be prejudiced, and British Minister at Tehran has therefore been instructed to
support his Russian colleague. For the same reason I have not demurred to measures
which Russian Government considered necessary in north of Persia for protecting
Russian interests, though it has been difficult at times to reconcile the continued
presence of all the Russian troops in Persia, more especially the force at Kazvin, with
conditions which Russian Government themselves stated would govern presence of
Russian troops in Persia.
Meanwhile I am much pressed by commercial firms as to obstruction, danger, and
disorder of southern trade routes, which must continue till Persian Government have
money. Russian trade has, it is understood, not suffered to same extent, and to
expect us to use all our influence to prevent Persian Government obtaining means
necessary to restore order, which is essential to our trade, is to place us in an invidious
and impossible x>osition. Acting Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs will, I am sure,
appreciate consistent support which we have given to Russian Minister at Tehran,
and that it has been given relying upon equal consideration for British interests
being forthcoming when occasion required.
(Confidential.)
Comment upon reference to troops would be that indefinite stay of Russian troops
in full strength when or where not required to protect life and property, especially
when combined with refusal or prevention of all financial help to Persian Government,
would not be consistent with maintenance of a native Government in Persia at all.
(Repeated to Tehran.)
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the security situation in south Persia, 1909-1911.
The discussion in the volume relates to the deteriorating security situation for travellers and trade in south Persia (which was held to be a British sphere of influence) caused by fighting among the Kashgai, Lur and Arab tribes who had rejected the authority of the Governor-General of Fars. A further cause of insecurity relating to this is referred to in a note (ff 335-336) by the 2nd Assistant Resident, Bushire, J S Crosthwaite, who describes how tribesmen had invested their money in rifles and could only earn their living by robbing the caravans of commercial travellers.
Correspondence discusses how this culminated in an attack upon J H Bill, Acting British Consul, Shiraz, in which two horsemen or ' sowars ' were killed, as he travelled along a caravan route. Correspondence discusses measures to be taken as a result of this attack, including a claim for compensation from the Persian Government, a punitive expedition against the Kashgais tribe and the role of Soulet et-Dowle, Governor General, Fars. Measures discussed include using the guards ( gholam ) of the Indo-European Telegraph Department paid for by a surcharge on customs duty levied by the British at Bushire; implications for relations with the Persian Government and the Russian Government are also discussed.
Included in the volume is a 'Memorandum respecting the Disorders on the Trade Routes of Southern Persia' by H G Trick, Vice-Consul for Fars.
The principal correspondents in the volume include Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Viscount Morley of Blackburn, Secretary of State for India; Percy Zachariah Cox, the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; and Sir George Head Barclay, Minister at Tehran.
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- 1 volume (370 folios)
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The subject 948 (Persia: situation in the south) consists of 1 volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 366; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at 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
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- File 948/1909 'Persia: Situation in the South; Condition of the Roads. Attack on Mr Bill. Road Guard Scheme.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:146v, 147v:224v, 226r:369v, 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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