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File 3516/1914 Pt 1 'German War: Persian attitude towards Turkey' [27r] (62/340)
The record is made up of 1 volume (164 folios). It was created in 01 Sep 1914-01 Jan 1915. 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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CONFIDENTIAL.
1914 j
Sir W. Tovmley to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received December 13, 4'30 p.m.)
Tehran, December 13, 1914.
(December 13, IG'10 a.m.;
I rr- J XU. '
MY telegram No. 372 of lltli December.
Russian Minister called on me this morning to ask in the name of his Government
if I would co-operate with him in endeavouring to persuade Persian Government to
authorise Shuja to organise resistance to advance of Turks into Azerbaijan.
I replied' that I could not take any action in the sense desired without your
instructions, and on being pressed for my personal opinion by my colleague, I added
that it seemed to me rather too much to urge Persian Government, however unofficially,
to recognise as their champion a man in whom they had no confidence, and that I was
further convinced that they would never agree I continued that it appeared to me
rather a mean way to endeavour to drag Persia into the quarrel, and it would look as
if Russia wanted her faithful Shuja to do work for her which would make Persia a
belligerent, because she has no troops to spare for the purpose herself. I expiesse
my opinion that it was one thing frankly to seek Persian co-operation if that was
wanted, making such conditions as Persia might feel justified in asking, but that it
was quite another story to, as it were, trick her into becoming a belligerent through
the actions of a man who is looked upon as a rebel.
My colleague scorned greatly ashamed of his mission. <
Russian Minister said that Turks have not left Soujboulak, but are now busily
preparing a further advance, and have looted Russian consulate.
Minister for Foreign Affairs complained to me that Shuja intercepts the telegrams
from Soujboulak, and that Government is consequently not aware of what is happening
there.
(Repeated to Petrograd.)
[1172 -575]
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The volume concerns diplomatic tensions between Persian, Ottoman, British and Russian Governments, at the outset of the First World War (Anglo-German war in the file), including the attack made at Urmia on Russian troops by Kurdish forces.
The papers cover:
- Attitude of Persian towards Anglo-German war and towards the Government of India.
- Russian policy towards Persia.
- Proposal to induce Persia to join the Allies.
- Persian neutrality in the hostilities between Turkey and Russia, and request for withdrawal of Russian troops.
- Turco-Persian frontier: Kurdish attacks on Russian troops at Urumia [Urmia, Iran]; Shuja-ed-Dowleh, the Agha of Maragha's [Maragheh, Iran] conquest of Tabriz, resisting the advance of Turks.
- Anti-British actions in Mesopotamia.
- Anglo-Turkish war: events following Ottoman Ruler Sultan Mehmed V’s declaration of war on Britain, France and Russia on 11 November 1914; Persian neutrality.
- Russian troops in Persia, and their withdrawal from Khorasan and Mazandera [Mazandaran Province, Iran] on the Turco-Persian frontier in December 1914.
- Persian Government's protest against the presence of a British gunboat on the Karun River.
- Anglo-Russian relations.
There are some letters in French, from the Russian Vice Consul at Urmia, from the Russian Embassy in London and from the Consul General for Persia at Calcutta.
The volume’s principal correspondents are: Louis du Pan Mallet, Foreign Office; Walter Beaupre Townley, British Minister at Tehran; Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; George William Buchanan, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Russia.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (164 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 164; these numbers are written in pencil, 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
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- File 3516/1914 Pt 1 'German War: Persian attitude towards Turkey'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1r:8v, 11r:37v, 39r:63v, 68r:130v, 132r:163v, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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