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'Military Report on S. W. Persia, Volume II, Arabistan' [34r] (72/96)
The record is made up of 1 volume (44 folios). It was created in 1910. 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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( 57 )
APPENDIX V.
Temporary Boundary Agreement {Protocol) between Turkey and Persia dated
?>rd August 1869.
Abstract Translation .—
This agreement is drawn up with a view to the maintenance of the status
quo.
1. The two parties will use every exertion towards increasing the security
of their respective frontiers.
2. The status quo respecting disputed lands, such as was defined by the
Commissioners of the four Powers is to continue in force until the Boundary
Line is settled.
3. Every place which was considered disputed land when the status quo
was accepted by the parties shall remain under the authority of the State
which governed it at that time, until the boundary is settled. But this
supervision will not confer the right of ultimate possession.
4. On these disputed lands no buildings shall henceforth be erected by
either party, and no existing buildings or marks shall be considered proofs
of possession when the boundary line is fixed.
5. Repair of houses at Kazli Giul.
6. Disputes on this point to be referred to Central Government.
7. This temporary agreement to hold good until boundary line is settled. 4 *
♦Not yet settled 1909.— A. T. W.
The above abstract was made at Muhammareh by Lieutenant A. T. Wilson. I. A.,
12th March 1909 {vide Appendix 18 “ Aitchison< Treaties,” Volume X, 1892).
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It consists of a military report on S W Persia, specifically Arabistan [Khūzestān], created for the personal information of the officers of the Army in India. Compiled in the Division of the Chief of the Staff, Army Head Quarters, India. Printed at the Government Monotype Press, Simla, 1910.
It includes a preface by Wilfrid Malleson, Assistant Quarter-Master General, Intelligence Branch.
It is divided into the following sections:
- general considerations – geographical, political, and commercial;
- military considerations – communications, supplies, transport, climate, military capacities of inhabitants, medical, and harbour reports;
- route reports – incorporating comments on the road, climate, supplies, grazing, fuel, water, transport and physical obstacles;
- appendices – including a table of principal tribes of Arabistan, a translation of Kārūn River Regulations, and abstracts of: the terms of an agreement between Sheikh Khaz'al and the Bakhtīārī Khāns; the Treaty of Erzeroum (1847), the Turko-Persian Boundary Agreement (England and Russia); the Boundary Agreement (Turkey and Persia); and the Nāsirī Company's Concession.
Also includes one map on folio 45: 'MAP to illustrate Military Report on S.W. PERSIA'.
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- 1 volume (44 folios)
- Arrangement
The item consists of a single report and an accompanying map enclosed in a pocket on the inside back cover. A contents page at the front of the volume (f 5) and index at the rear (ff 39-43) both reference the volume’s original printed pagination.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 46; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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