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File 4880/1913 Pt 2 'Turco-Persian Frontier Commission: protocol of 1913' [166r] (199/499)
The record is made up of 1 item (248 folios). It was created in 1913. 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 Docnment is the Property of His Britannic Majesty’s Government,]
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[August 26.J
Section 1,
[38476]
No. 1.
Sir Edward Grey to Mr. Marling.
(No. 267.)
Foreign Office, August 26, 1913.
I HAVE received your despatch No. 720 a of the 14th instant, enclosing the draft
of a note to the Ottoman Government respecting the Turco-Persian frontier.
The enclosures in your despatch apparently contain certain clerical errors, and if
this is so it will be necessary to have the printed proof carefully revised. I accordingly
enclose two copies in print, and have to request you to cause such corrections as may
be necessary to be made.
I gather that the position now is that the Ottoman Government have expressed in
writing their concurrence in the Anglo-Russian notes, but I should be glad to know
what steps are to be taken to give the arrangement arrived at binding force, and
whether it is proposed that a preliminary treaty should be concluded between Turkey
and Persia, prior to the demarcation, and a final treaty after the demarcation. If
there is to be no preliminary treaty, I presume you and your Russian colleague are
satisfied, in spite of past experience as to Turkey’s attitude in regard to this question,
that the correspondence which has taken place will serve the purpose equally well in
practice, though I agree with you that the form of the draft note is somewhat cumbrous
and unsatisfactory. ,
You will no doubt report at an early date upon the form m which you and your
Russian colleague recommend that the arrangement arrived at with the Ottoman
Government should be brought to the knowledge of the Persian Government, and to
what document the latter should be asked to adhere.
I shall also be glad to receive a draft of the instructions which it is proposed to
issue to the British and Russian commissioners. Commissions will be issued to
Mr. Wratislaw and Captain Wilson, and, subject to any observations you may have
to offer, it is proposed that they should be in general terms and contain a statement to
the effect that the commissioners should act in accordance with instructions issffed
to them by His Majesty’s Ambassador at Constantinople.
I am, &c.
E. GREY.
[1829 cc —1]
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Correspondence, reports and maps relating to the 1913 Turco-Persian Frontier Commission, and the production of the Protocole relative à la Délimitation turco-persane, signé à Constantinople le 4 (17) Novembre, 1913 .
The primary correspondents are: HM Consul-General at Teheran (Sir Walter Beaupre Townley); HM Consul-General at Constantinople; HM Vice-Consul at Kashr-i Shirin (E B Soane); 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. Political Department; the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs (Said Halim); the Russian Consul-General in Baghdad (M Orlof); the Russian Ambassador to the UK (Count Von Benckendorff); HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey); and Albert Charles Wratislaw, head of the British section of the Commission.
The file opens with correspondence regarding reported Turkish military build-up in Kasr-i Shirin [Qaṣr-e Shīrīn], disturbances on the Baghdad-Kermaāshāh route, local raids by Persian and Turkish tribesmen, possible concessions to Turkey in the Zohab [Zohāb] district, and the difficulty of reaching an agreement which would be acceptable to Sunni and Shia tribes in the Zohab region. A map of the Zohab region is included at folio 305.
The bulk of the file concerns arrangements for the Frontier Commission, discussing: the push for a settlement; the composition of the British, Russian, Turkish and Persian commissions; the need to use surveying and triangulation to improve on pre-existing, inaccurate maps; the wording of the internal rules [ Règlement Intérieur ] to govern the Commission; arrangements over work to be conducted by the northern and southern sections of the Commission; and arrangements to preserve the rights of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in regions to be transferred to Turkey.
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Folios 224-29 Declaration regarding the frontier, signed by Sir Edward Grey and I Hakky Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , with four accompanying maps:
- Map No 1, Sketch Map showing Turco-Persian Frontier West and South of Hawizeh [Howeyzeh];
- Map No 2, Sketch Map of Muhammareh [Khorramshar] to indicate the Turco-Persian Boundary;
- Map No 3, Sheet No I, Map of Shatt-Al-'Arab & Bahmanshir [Rūdkhāneh-ye Bahmanshīr] including Muhammareh [Khorramshar] & 'Abbádán I [Ābādān];
- Map No 4, Sheet No II, Map of Shatt-Al-'Arab & Bahmanshir, including Muhammareh & 'Abbádán I.
Folios 68-87 Copy of the Protocole relative à la Délimitation turco-persane, signé à Constantinople le 4 (17) Novembre, 1913, plus: additional copies of the four maps detailed above; Annex (A), Règlement intérieur de la Commission de Délimitation de la Frontière turco-persane ; Annex (B) Statement by the Ottoman Government pledging to maintain, within the territories granted by Persia to Turkey, the rights and obligations granted to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Ltd by the Persian Imperial Government under the Convention of 28 May, 1901; also included are notes on the meetings of the frontier delegates at Constantinople, 4-9 November, written by the British Commissioner, Albert Charles Wratislaw.
Folio 67 is a collection header sheet, giving the subject heading and a list of correspondence references found within the part, listed by year.
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