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File 3852/1912 Pt 2 'Persia. Conditions in South Persia. German Documents' [281r] (193/280)
The record is made up of 1 item (139 folios). It was created in 12 Jul 1912-30 Jan 1917. 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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merie in future will take the place of a big force. Therefore it is
necessary that he should enter into the question with the Per
sian, British and Swedish Govts.
As regards the big Persian loan, he said that its fulfillment
depends on two points: —
jv: i. that the budget should be regulated.
2. that the question of Railways shd. settled.
Regarding the Trans-Persian Railway he said that the British
Govt, wants it to be constructed from northwestern parts to the
south and the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, but the Russian Govt., should like
it to be made from the north-west to the South-East.
Regarding Haji Shuja-ed-Dowleh and Azerbaijan, the
minister said that it was Shuj a-ed-Dowleh only who could
restore orders in Tabriz and the province.
Confidential Circular of the English Minister in Teheran,
Sir Walter Townley, to the Consular Representatives of Great
Britain in Persia, dated June 26 th, 1914.
Shiraz.
Official Stamp of the British Embassy.
Very Confidential
Circular Nr. 2. Gulhek, June 26. 1914.
Ref. my Confdl. Circular of March 23.
With the approach of the date of the Coronation the
situation in the capital is very obscure. The Govt: is in sore
financial difficulty and it is not apparent from what source money
can be found. H. M. G. appears indisposed to give any assistance
and the P. G. will not seek the help of Russia, because it is
feared that assistance rendered from that quarter would be
accompanied by demands for certain concessions, notably
those of the navigation of Lake Urumia, the rectification of the
Russo—Persian frontier in the neighbourhood of the Moghan
Steppes, together with certain irrigation works and a land
concession, and the Karkunan irrigation scheme for diverting
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The second part of the volume (folios 185 to 324) concerns conditions of trade in South Persia and German documents relating to this. Copies of two books are present in the volume: ' La Perse et la Guerre Européenne par un Patriote Persan, Édition de la Librairie Nouvelle de Lausanne, 1917' and ' Behind the Veil in Persia: English Documents, C.L. van Langenhuysen, Amsterdam 1917'. Other visual items of interest in Part 2 include a 'Map of Persia' (folio 299) depicting the Russian and British zones of influence along with project railways, frontier lines and provincial boundaries.
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- File 3852/1912 Pt 2 'Persia. Conditions in South Persia. German Documents'
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- 216r:299v
- Author
- C L van Langenhuysen
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