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File 1356/1912 Pt 1 'Turco-Persian Frontier:- negotiations at Constantinople.' [128r] (265/885)
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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, Jo tte T T fr T Forei S n Office, 4th September
lb 88 . H. C., Vol. io 4 , page 209.
21 . On receipt of these instructions, Sir W. White
wrote:—
“I got a Turkish translation carefully made of the said
Memorandum, a copy of which I instructed Sir A. Sandison to
deliver to the Grand \izier.
“ Hls Highness, after having taken some days to study it,
expressed, I am sorry to say, subsequently, an opinion less favour
able to our demand than the one he has stated on previous occasions •
whilst the Minister for Foreign Affairs had become in the mean
time more open to entertain these (objections ?) on our part
especially on learning the serious consequences of a refusal on the
part oi the Imperial Government.
I continued to urge on the Grand Vizier the representations
1 was instructed to make by your Lordship, when I suddenly
that thls controversy so uselessly raised by the Turkish
VYar Department had reached the Sultan’s ears. ‘ His Majesty
t ion gave orders that all the documents should be submitted to
himself pending any further decision, and the Turkish Minister
tor foreign Affairs declared himself unable to do anything before
receiving his Imperial Majesty’s commands.
• ‘‘ 0l ! t l U! 9th in stant I forwarded to the Sultan’s First Secretary,
m lurkish, a copy of the above-named Memorandum, and also of
the 1 ersian Note addressed to my predecessor and to the Eussian
Ambassador on the 31st January 1848, as bearing upon this
point, so as to leave no doubt whatever in the Imperial mind of
the importance of his decision as affecting the future relations of
England and Turkey.
'i dncstion of Massowah and financial complications may
probably have occasioned His Imperial Majesty to delay studying
the subject, and I propose immediately after the Bairam holidays
to resume urgently pressing this question.
“ I cannot, however, refrain from stating to your Lordship very
confidentially that M. de Nelidoff has been working in a sense
hostile to our demands, both at the Palace with the War Minister
and even indirectly with the Persian Ambassador.
‘ I beg likewise to forward to your Lordship translations of a
Note addressed by the Porte on the 31st ultimo to the Persian
Ambassador here, and of an article which appeared in the £ Tarik ’
newspaper of the 2 nd instant, with reference to this question' and
which both show sufficiently the animus which inspires them and
the obstacles with which we have to contend.”
Turkish attitude on the Fao
question. I
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“ Copy of a Note addressed by the Turkish Foreign Office to
> 1 the Persian Embassy.
‘ “ We have perused your Note of reply stating that the con
struction of fortifications at Fao is contrary to the decision
arrived at when the Treaty of Erzeroum was concluded, viz that
no fortifications should be made on the banks of the Shat-el-Arab
and declaring that any modification of this decision must be
subject to the consent of the mediating Powers. It is needless*
to explain that the agreement arrived at on this subject was not a
reciprocal undertaking, but Turkey at that time in her own
interests reserved to her own initiation the right of constructing
fortifications on those banks, and brought about the engagement
that so long as Turkey should not fortify the right bank °of the
river, Persia should abstain from building forts on her (the left)
bank. Now that Turkey has had forts made, Persia is released
from her engagement, and is also free to construct forts on her
own ground and has no right to object. And this agreement
being between the two Governments, there is no kind ob’eno-aa-e-.
ment vis-a-vis the mediating Powers, and the two Governments
aforesaid are not dependent on their consent, and the construction
of these works is no violation of any treaty between the two
countries.”
Translation,
“‘Tarik,’ Thursday, 2 nd August 1888.
“ I he ‘Tarik,’ referring to the statement which appeared in the
< Standard ’ that England had made representations to Turkey
with regard to fortifications which are being constructed at the
mouth of the Shat-el-Arab by the 6 th Army Corps, remarks that
it has no official information on the subject, but that it considers
the statement in question as to the construction of important
forts at that point must be exaggerated.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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.
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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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