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File 3360/1916 Pt 1 'Persian correspondence (1916-17)' [136r] (276/804)
The record is made up of 1 volume (398 folios). It was created in 1916-1917. 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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'— V '^ J - vu jJiusptjrity wui Decorae clear.
Bushire.
ot this news and as long as this news is not officially published, i.e., signed
notices are not published officially by the British, we cannot believe what
has been reported in the notices in question, particularly in view of the
news which we are receiving by travellers about the fighting at Shayibieh
and at Ctesiphon, and which clearly show that these notices are all false.
Another fact, which renders the authenticity of the news doubtful, is the
report contained in a teleeram, sent from the Commander-in-Chief* of the
British forces to Bushire, which had been sent by/the British
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
to
Husein Khan Dashti and which shows that owing to heavy rains the British
troops have been able only to proceed a little beyond Kut-al-Amarah.
To speak nothing of contradiction, even if we feel inclined to accept the
report, it is not an extraordinary enterprise for the British Government, now
that all the countries have to send troops to fight in many theatres of war all
•over the world, to reach Baghdad after two years’ fighting, because it is easier
for the British to send troops there and bring up supplies of stores than for
the Turkish Grovernment to convey stores from Constantinople to Baghdad.
The Turkish railway has not gone beyond Ras-ul-Ain, which is 195 farsakhs
from Baghdad, while Basrah, which is almost adjoining London and India,
is not more than 80 farsakhs from Baghdad. Purther, the fact that Turkish
troops have evacuated Baghdad without fighting would show that it has been
a military strategy and that they have a great object in view in another
theatre of war.
It is possible that the troops of the Allied (Triple) Governments have been
engaged in the Kieff-Odessa region which will secure them a great success,
and the British troops availing themselves of the opportunity have occupied
Baghdad.
As soon as the Allies can pay attention to Mesopotamia, the British will
be besieged there at once.
One important point that one can gather from these notices and which
renders them liable to contradiction, is the fact that they report the evacua
tion by the Turkish troops of Persian soil on the one hand, and the occupation
(by the British troops) of Baqubah which is on the road to Khaniqin at the
same time. They ought to have therefore published the news of the British
and Russian troops joining hands. But this news has not yet been published,
which shows that the notices are not free from exaggeration.
For the last four days Reuter has been quite silent about Rus la
although it had been reported formerly that German troops are advancing in
all directions in Russia without fighting and the Russian troops suriendering
without fighting. Later Reuter only stated that both the brother of the
Russian Emperor and his nephew had refused to accept the sovereign y.
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- Content
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, and memoranda, comprising miscellaneous correspondence on British involvement in Persia in the period 1916-17.
Topics discussed include:
- the activities of the German Vice-Consul, Bushire, Wilhelm Wassmuss, including reports of an attack on him (folio 312)
- an account of the escape of German and Austrian prisoners (folio 281)
- translations of letters from German prisoners transferred from Shiraz to Russia (ff 43-48) including a translation of Dr Zugmeyer's diary
- discussion of German and Russian activities in Persia
- tables, statistics and reports on troop numbers and weaponry, deployments, military engagements and casualties
- British relations with local chiefs and their dealings with the Germans and Russians
- transcripts of local newspaper articles on various topics including the Russian Revolution (folio 136v)
- discussion of money required to pay to tribes
- miscellaneous Army Department memoranda
- general reports on the political and military situation in Persia including the 'Bakhtiari country' (ff 320-321)
The file is mainly divided into sections on events by weekly date period. Correspondents include: the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Department; HBM Minister, Tehran (Sir Charles Marling); HBM Consul, Bundar Abbas [Bandar Abbas]; HBM Consul, Shiraz; HM Consul-General, Meshed; HM Consul for Kerman and Persian Baluchistan, (David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer); HBM Vice-Consul, Ahwaz (Captain Edward Noel); HM Consul-General, Isfahan; General Officer Commanding, Sistan Field Force; The General Staff, South Persia Rifles, Shiraz; the Inspector-General, South Persia Rifles (Brigadier-General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes); Chief of the General Staff, Simla; Chief of the Imperial General Staff, London; 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. , Bushire; and the Deputy 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. , Bushire.
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 (398 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file. The subject 3360 (Persian Correspondence) consists of three volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/612-614. The volumes are divided into three parts, with each part comprising 1 volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 400; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out
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- Title
- File 3360/1916 Pt 1 'Persian correspondence (1916-17)'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:76r, 78r:106r, 114r:121r, 122r, 123v:124r, 126r:129v, 131r:146v, 148v:178r, 179v:208v, 211r:214r, 216r:244r, 246v:300v, 306v:309v, 313v:321r, 324r:326v, 328r:339v, 341r:399v, back-i
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