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File 4880/1913 Pt 2 'Turco-Persian Frontier Commission: protocol of 1913' [289r] (445/499)
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 Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]
PERSIA.
[February 17.J
^CONFIDENTIAL.
Section 4.
I Q
[7468]
No. 1—
Sir G. Lowther to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received February 17.)
(No. 113.)
Sir, Constantinople, February 13, 1913.
WITH reference to my despatch No. 1060 of the 12th December last, I have the
honour to transmit herewith the copy of a despatch which I have received from
Dr. Scott, His Majesty’s acting consul-general at Bagdad, enclosing copies of a letter
addressed by Mr. Vice-Consul Soane to M. Orlof, Russian consul-general at Bagdad,
giving the southern limits of the territory of Shemiran in the north of Zohab, with
certain particulars as to its ownership.
The line given by Mr. Soane as delimitating the Shemiran district can be traced
with a fair amount of accuracy on the map attached to the Foreign Office Memorandum
9033 of September 1907, to which he refers. Further details respecting the line in
question, as also respecting the lines of the proposed cessions of territory to the east of
Barau range and to the south of the Elwend River respectively, will no doubt be given
by Mr. Soane with the new sketch map which, as will be seen from Dr. Scott’s despatch
above referred to, is being prepared by him. In the meantime it might, I venture to
think, be advisable that copies of the identic map should be forwarded to Dr. Scott at
Bagdad for the use of Mr. Soane and M. Orlof.
I have, &c.
GERARD LOWTHER.
Enclosure 1 in No. 1.
Acting Consul-General Scott to Sir G. Lowther.
(No. 57.)
Your Excellency, Bagdad, January 13, 1913.
IN continuation of my despatch No. 964, dated the 11th November, 1912, I
submit herewith three copies of a letter which Mr. E. B. Soane has addressed to
M. Orlof, Russian consul-general at Bagdad, in connection with the proposed new
Turco-Persian frontier.
I had held this back hoping to be able to submit it together with the new sketch
map Mr. Soane is preparing. His long illness, however, has prevented him up to the
present completing this work.
I have, &c.
NORMAN SCOTT,
Captain I.M.S.,
Acting
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
Turkish Arabia
A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire.
.
Enclosure 2 in No. 1 .
Mr. Soane to M. Orlof.
Cher M. Orlof, Tohia Sourkh, le 19 novemhre, 1912.
IL parait’que le fils de Mahmoud Pacha Djafe, nomme Ali Beg, sujet ottoman, est
le proprietaire du terrain de Chemirane, lequel a ete, il y a longtemps, acquis par achat
des anciens proprietaires (le tribu Charafbaini). A cause de cette circonstance les
Kourdes le considerent comme territoire turque, appelant les limites de Chemirane
“hudoud,” c’est-a-dire “ frontiere.”
Referant a la carte incluse dans le Memorandum 9033, septembre 1907 (dont vous
possedez un exemplaire), a voir la partie extreme nord de la chaine Bendi Bamou
portant les lettres u Ben-” du mot “Bendi.” Entre cette partie de la chaine et sa
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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.
Key items:
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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