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File 3516/1914 Pt 11 'Persia: protection of Anglo-Persian Oil Co's fields etc' [193r] (390/550)
The record is made up of 1 volume (271 folios). It was created in 27 Jun 1915-8 May 1919. It was written in English. 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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SECRET.
No. 10 of 1916.
To
The BIGHT HONOURABLE AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN,
Eis Majesty's Secretary of State for India.
Delhi, the 4th February 1916.
Sir,
We have the honour to refer to your despatch Secret No. 27, dated the 10th
Decemher 1915, wherein, with reference to the protection of the Anglo-
Bersian Oil Company’s oil-fields and pipe-line in South-West Persia, you
desire to be furnished with our views on the recommendations contained in
the inter-departmental Committee’s report of the 8 th October 1915.
2. Our views are as follows
(e) We agree with the recommendations of the Committee that the
following measures should be carried out by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company,
viz.,
(a) a cart road to he made from Halila via Abganji to the foot of the
Anjirak Kotal (8 miles),
(&) a water pipe to he laid from the Karun at Halila to the foot of
the Anjirak and a Burj with pumping power inside to be erected
at or near this point;
(<?) a good mule road to be made up the Anjirak and thence along the
oil pipe-line to the Ab-i-Tembi (distance about 12 miles).
Such measures, when carried out, will considerably facilitate any military
measures which might have to be taken for the protection of the oil-fields
now or later. We note that the question of the improvement of the water
supply of the oil-fields has already been taken up by the Anglo-Persian
Oil Company, and trust that it will be carried out as early as possible.
(ii) As the arrangements proposed by the Committee have in view more
settled and permanent conditions and are not
applicable to the existing state of affairs,* and
as it is impossible to forecast what will be the
situation in Mesopotamia, Arabistan and
Persia at the end of the war, it seems to us premature to express any opinion
regarding the military dispositions that will eventually be necessary for
the protection of the oil-fields and pipe-line.
* T ide last sentence of your Despatch
-^o.27 of 10th December 1915 and your
telegram No. 3128, dated 9th November
1915.
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The volume concerns the situation in Persia during the First World War. The main focus is the protection of Anglo-Persian Oil Company's (APOC) oilfields and pipelines in south-western Persia.
The volume covers:
- Defence of APOC property.
- Notes on oilfields in Arabistan [Khuzestan].
- Water supply of the oilfields.
- Creation of Inter-departmental Committee on the Defence of the Persian Oil Fields and its report (ff 230-235).
- Despatch of a small force to defend the oilfields in 1917.
- Acquiring British control over the oilfields.
- King's Regulation impeding to leave APOC without the consent of the Consul General for Fars, for the period of the war (f 110).
- Providing a guard for APOC's oilfields at Maidan-i-Neptun.
- Military training for European APOC employees.
The volume’s principal correspondents are: John Nixon, General Officer Commanding, India Expeditionary Force 'D', Basrah; Charles Hardinge, Viceroy of India; Thomas William Holderness and Arthur Hirtzel, 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. ; William Graham Greene, Oswyn Murray and Edmond John Warre Slade, Admiralty; Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe and Maurice de Bunsen, Foreign Office; Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for India; Anglo-Persian Oil Company; Charles Marling, British Minister at Tehran; Percy Cox, 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 Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
There are three maps within the file, 'Map A' (2 copies) on folios 264 and 271, and 'Part of River Karun' on folio 265.
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- 1 volume (271 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 273; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-272; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:31v, 34r:54v, 56r:104v, 106r:108v, 110r:129v, 131r:144v, 148r:198v, 203r:208v, 214r:263v, 266r:270r, 270ar, 272r:272v, back-i
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