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File 1356/1912 Pt 1 'Turco-Persian Frontier:- negotiations at Constantinople.' [‎124r] (257/885)

The record is made up of 1 volume (436 folios). It was created in 7 Feb 1912-25 Sep 1912. 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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Mr. Nicolson might be authorised to state that
Her Majesty’s Government would be ready to
support the representations which the Persian
Government would no doubt think it necessary to
make at Constantinople on the subject.
Viscount Cross concurred in the proposal looking
to the importance in the interests of Persia of
maintaining free access to Mohammerah from the
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . At this time the project for opening
up the Karun river and constructing a railway from
Ahwaz to Teheran was under consideration. The
construction of a fort at Pao was consequently a
measure hostile both to British and to Persian
interests.
Instructions in this sense were accordingly sent
to Mr. Mcolson on the 3rd May 1887.
Letter from Foreign Office, 13th June
1887. H. C., Vol. 94, p. 1557.
7. The Shah having inquired what was the best
mode of proceeding, Mr. Nicolson suggested that
the matter should be referred to the Persian Am
bassador at Constantinople, who could confer with
Sir W. White. The Poreign Office, however,
telegraphed to Mr. Nicolson on the 13th June that
it appeared that, in the event of the Skat-el-Arab
being closed, navigation to Mohammerah would
still be open by the Bamishir. In view of this,
and of the Treaty engagements of the Porte to
Persia, it might be unnecessary to raise the question
at Constantinople.
It was subsequently ascertained that the
Bamishir channel was full of sand-banks and
shallows, and, in fact, impracticable.
The fortifications at this time were not of a very
formidable kind, and the Poreign Office considered
it not “ worth while to make a fuss about the fort
under the circumstances.”
Letter from Foreign Office, dated 6 th
August 1887. H. C., Vol, 96, p. 467.
8 . Before Sir W. White had received the instruc
tions sent to him on the 20th July to support the
protest of the Shah’s Ambassador at Constantinople,
he had mentioned that Mohsin Khan had been for
some time consulting him on the subject of repre
sentations to the Sublime Porte regarding the
construction of fortifications at Pao, but, as the
Ambassador had very little knowledge of the
subject, Sir W. White could not give him much
assistance, having received no instructions from the
Poreign Office.
He had, however, urged Mohsin Khan, who was
a personal favourite with the Sultan and was about
to have an audience with him, to speak to His
Imperial Majesty and obtain an Irade to stop the
works to which liis Government objected.
On learning the above, Lord Cross observed that,
according to the reports of Colonel Murdoch Smith,
the projected fortifications were of a nature to
enable the Turkish authorities to obstruct the free
navigation of the Shat-el-Arab between Moham
merah and the sea, and it was very possible that
this might lead to works of a similar nature being
constructed by the Persian Government on the

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The volume discusses the disputed Turco-Persian Frontier, particularly at Mohammerah, and the negotiations in Constantinople to attempt to settle it.

The correspondence focuses on:

  • the differences of opinion over the actual boundary at Mohammerah, including several maps demonstrating these differences;
  • movements of Turkish and Russian troops;
  • ownership of the Shat-el-Arab and questions of access for navigation;
  • copies of treaties, correspondence and memoranda dating back to 1639 relating to the question of the Turco-Persian frontier.

The principal correspondents in the volume are the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey); the Secretary of State for India (Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe); 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. (Sir Percy Zachariah Cox); the British Ambassador to Constantinople (Sir Gerard Lowther); the British Ambassador to Russia (Sir George Buchanan); the Viceroy of India (Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst); the British Ambassador to Tehran (Sir George Head Barclay); representatives of the Foreign Office (particularly Alwyn Parker) and 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. ; and Arthur Talbot Wilson, on special duty in relation to the Turco-Persian Frontier.

This volume is part one of two. Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 volume (436 folios)
Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

The subject 1356 (Turco-Persian Frontier) consists of 2 volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/266-267. The volumes are divided into two parts, with each part comprising one volume.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 436; 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.

The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.

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