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'Expenditure on Malleson Mission and troops in East Persia, 1918 to 1921' [16r] (31/34)
The record is made up of 1 file (17 folios). It was created in 1921. 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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Fro . Viocroy (*>rmy -'eparUnenk )
‘i : o ^aoretiry of^ take*
Cinlu u ;net 28 th.
Roc -ivo'! eptdaber 2nxl. 1^1^ at 12
11702. 28th, ..u ; ;uti t.
1. In connsution wit . queftion of relieving oert*in tnite
in last Ferula, m have received enrmiry from Malleson ae to
future policy in that re.ian, fie says. I'Qr'iab,
Theao projouale naturally invite oowsidoration (ior) future
military policy in theca parte. The whole of the facte are
y,ell knovm to you and 1 merely invite attention to following*
points:(a) iixkins refusal to Bond any rninforoomenta to frane-
Oaspia and the weakness and worthlessness of Uavitakis Force,
f . e om to make it probable bolshevios will eventually control
whole of country to Caspian. (B) if the bolehevios sucoe d in
opening u . the Orenburg line.whioh fn eon probable in view of
Kolchak's retirement, the uituation in Central aiia will ohaage
greatly for the worse. (C) In thit case local feohamedans would
be poiverleee and would have to accept holehevio rule and
conscription, hn de.
2. We shou d be glad of indication of intentions of Hie
kajeety'e Oov rodent.
3. Iroeent role of Halleson'e Force is d. fined by your tele
gram of t le Jth February last. vis. to proteot Ilorth- ast Portia
from bolshevic incursions. Force also serves the purpose (a)
Fncouraging Persia to resist Pan-islamic and bolskeeio influenc *
(b) Inable us to keep in touch with ovonts in Central >sia
and (o) Afford moral support to irasc^daspitmu by threatening
flank and rear of Bolshevio advance towards Xrasnovofiuk.
4. e consider that (b) could be adequately met by email
Intelli,unce Organisation at **«shed and m presume that other
j^Uposeu for which walleson's ’orce eais|ts .if still necessary,
( Twill omitted ) be met sooner or later by the Persian bret to
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This previously secret file, compiled by 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. , contains various papers relating to expenditure on the Malleson Mission and troops in East Persia between 1918 and 1921.
The file opens with a note about the contents of the file, and is followed by an 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. Political Department Memorandum and a memorandum by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Correspondence regarding expenditure is then included which dates from after the Chancellor's memorandum (November 1919) until January 1921.
There are two appendices. Appendix I contains correspondence on the subject which was exchanged prior to the Chancellor's memorandum. Appendix II provides copies of the main military and political telegrams which are referred to in the memoranda and the later correspondence regarding expenditure. At the end of the file is a copy of a separate telegram from the Viceroy, Army Department, to the Secretary of State for India dated August 1919 (folios 16-17).
The main correspondents throughout the file are 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 Treasury, the War Office (including the Secretary of State for War, Winston Churchill), the Secretary of State for India (Edwin Samuel Montagu), and the Viceroy, Army Department.
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- 1 file (17 folios)
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The content of the main file is arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. The content of the appendices is also arranged in chronological order within each appendix.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 17; 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.
Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Expenditure on Malleson Mission and troops in East Persia, 1918 to 1921'
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- 1r:17v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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