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File 1356/1912 Pt 1 'Turco-Persian Frontier:- negotiations at Constantinople.' [228r] (465/885)
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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[This Docume nt is the Property of His Britannic Majesty s Government. I
Printed for the use of the Foreign Office. April 1912.
<% CONFIDENTIAL.
( 10020 .)
4
A MEMORANDUM RESPECTING SHALLAH,
OR SHALHAH ISLAND, IN THE SHATT-
EL-ARAB.
Enclosure in
Consul-General
Nixon’s No. 4,
P.D., July 19,
1877.
THE following description of Shallah, or
Shalhah Island, was given in July 1877 by
Surgeon-Major Colvill, who bad been deputed
by tbe British consul-general at Bagdad to visit
it and to report such information about it as he
was able to obtain :—
COPY TO INDIA
3 MAY 1912
1 DV"Q
“ The Shallah Island is about 32 miles below Moham-
merah, and 6 miles above and within sight of the Turkish
custom-house at Dowasir. Shallah is, I believe, no name,
but in Arabia a generic term meaning outgrowth, and it
is well that it should have been applied in this case, for
it is really no island, but a bank which had it been left
alone would even now (i.e., in 1877) have been covered
by every tide. The bed of the Shatt-el-Arab at this point
is broader than usual, being about 3,000 yards wide, on
account of the bank on the Persian side forming a sort
of bay, and the island is about 1,000 yards from the
Persian and 2,000 yards from the Turkish shore,and situated
as it were in the mouth of this Persian bay. The result
is that, whatever it might have been originally, the whole
orce of the current now is between the island and the
Turkish bank, while the bay is fast filling up; even now
a man can wade at low tide from the island to the
Persian hank, and there is no question but that in a few
years more the island will become a portion of the Persian
mainland.”
Mr. Thomson,
Nos. 59 and 60,
May 3, 1877.
In 1877 a question arose as to the ownership
of the island. The Arabs of the Muntefik tribe,
who dwell on the Turkish side of the river, were
about to take forcible possession of it, when the
Persians assembled a considerable force at
Mohammerah, with a view to preventing them
from so doing.
Her Majesty’s Ambassador at Constantinople,
who had been instructed to use his good offices
between Turkey and Persia in the dispute,
[575]
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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.
- 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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1r:22v, 24ar, 25r:73v, 75r:103v, 105r:122v, 124r:145v, 147r:184v, 187r:190v, 196v:203v, 214r:233r, 242r:242v, 244r:244v, 246r:251v, 253r:257r, 258r:261r, 262r:264v, 266r:270v, 272r:273v, 276r:279r, 282r:313v, 315r:324v, 326r:348v, 350r:370v, 372r:436v, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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