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File 4880/1913 Pt 2 'Turco-Persian Frontier Commission: protocol of 1913' [‎242r] (351/499)

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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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I submit os requested the following note regarding the
projected Turka Persian Frontier Commissions.
I do 90 on the assumption that Government win be pleased to
nominate me as British commissioner on the Southern Conran.
(1 ) Nur:ibefr ^ of C o nrnl rpi .
It i £3 propoeM that there should he two Commissions;
Russia has apparently agreed to this, though not without some
misgiving.
i iLl-Jtorfr to commence r-nprn Zohsh .
I would, suggest that arrangements he made hy tae Foreign Office
for the whole pr vine© of Zohab to he dealt rith hy one of the
C ramisalons, pref rahly the Southern. If the district is
d alt with by both Commissions local difficulties will he
inevitable.
As regards the Southern Commission fran some points of view it w
would he preferable to start r rora Mohamrasrah.
ilJ. fan's of riom^l ^ 1 , oners.
As soon as the rank of the Russian represe.itstive on the
Southern, uomrai^ si on is known the Government of India may he
. . , mint ry
skoc to grant me the necessary temperary/rank whilst
employed on the Commission, in orb-r to make me of equivalent
rank to the Russian Commissioner. This would presumably have to
he done hy a notification of the Govt of India In the Army Dept
The c sesof military attaches appointed to Tehran and Egypt
hy the Govt of India afford precedents for such grant of temp
orary -ank.
" of CQ,mTiissio s.
on July 17th the F.o. f sked for details of the technical staff
"hich it was proposed to attach to the Russian Comrai sioners
hut gave no indication of what the views of HMG Her or His Majesty’s Government in London. on the point
were. I suggest that the Russian Govt he invited, in orde

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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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