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File 1356/1912 Pt 1 'Turco-Persian Frontier:- negotiations at Constantinople.' [‎246r] (501/885)

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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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. ,
June 3, 1911.
Sir O. Barclay
(Tehran),
No. 148,
Telegraphic,
May 1, 1911.
It will be seen from the foregoing summary that the
attitude finally assumed by His Majesty’s Government
did not differ very materially from the views advanced
by Lieutenant Wilson and the British resident in the
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
Those officers urged, in effect, that since, so far as
Turkey was concerned, His Majesty’s Government
did not yet seem irrevocably committed to father
the line of 1850, His Majesty’s Government should
disregard it.
His Majesty’s Government, while holding that it
would be prudent to retain the 1850 line as the basis
of discussion, were prepared, if the question were
raised, to negotiate for, to press, and, in certain
contingencies, to insist upon, the recognition of the
boundary as locally observed.*
There was some further correspondence in
1911 with 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. on the subject: this
is referred to in a subsequent part of this paper.
The question which now arises is that of the
procedure to be adopted by His Majesty’s
Government, in view of the proposal to submit
the Turco-Persian frontier dispute to The Hague
Tribunal. This question, which is somewhat
more complicated owing to recent Turkish
attempts to control lighting and buoyage at the
entrance to the Shatt-el-Arab, will be dealt with
in the final portion of this memorandum.
In order, however, that the conclusions
eventually adopted may be arrived at with a full
knowledge of the facts, a historical summary of
the earlier correspondence—embracing the views
of Sir H. Layard, Sir H. Rawlinson, Sir Justin
Sheil, Sir Penwick Williams, Sir Stratford Can
ning, and other authorities, on Mohammerah,
and embodying the important negotiations on
the subject from 1843-52—has been prepared,
and forms Part II of this memorandum.
The diplomatic correspondence of those years
is of cardinal importance, since Turkey has only
recently laid special stress upon it in the nego
tiations which led up to the protocol signed
at Tehran on the 21st December, 1911 (see
Appendix (B), p. 51).
* It must not be overlooked that Russia, by virtue of her
past mediation, is concerned in this question; and His
Majesty’s Government would seem almost bound not to
abandon formally the joint line of the mediating commis
sioners of 1850, without previous consultation with the
Russian Government.
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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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English and French in Latin script
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