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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [40r] (84/566)
The record is made up of 1 volume (279 folios). It was created in 1929. 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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ALLIED MISUNDERSTANDING
51
success ; and in Ears the gendarmerie became still more affected
by the openly expressed pro-German sympathies of their
Swedish officers.
The reports they received seemed to the British Government
to show that the apparent Russian inability to cope with the
Turkish invasion might lead to Persia siding with the enemy.
Sir Edward Grey accordingly suggested to Russia that she
should, as a conciliatory measure, withdraw all her troops from
Persia and that, if the Turks then failed to keep their promise
to evacuate Persia also, Russia and Great Britain should give
Persia financial assistance to help her to organise a force to
defend herself. In reply, however, Russia intimated that she
had every intention of reoccupying Tabriz as soon as reinforce
ments were available ; and in any case she had no faith in
Turkish assurances or in Persian ability to organise effective
resistance. This discussion, which was entirely due to the
Russian Minister's imperfect acquaintance with Russian military
intentions and the state of affairs in Trans-Caucasia, had rather
unfortunate results. For it revived Persian hopes of getting
rid of the Russian troops only to dissipate them again, thus
accentuating the anti-Russian feeling; and it inclined Russia
to suspect Great Britain's intentions. Fortunately, the effects
were to some extent modified by the resentment aroused by
Turkish and Kurdish outrages in the Urmia area and by reports
that the adherence of the Mesopotamian Shiah mujtahids to
the Turkish Jahad had been due to strong coercion.* The
Persian public, it was said, began to recall the constant tyranny
and extortion, which in the past the Turks had practised
towards Shiah pilgrims and which they compared unfavourably
with the religious tolerance which Moslems of all sects enjoyed
under British rule. It was an indication of the general feeling
that, at the end of January, 1915, the leading priests in Tehran
volunteered the statement to Sir Walter Townley that they
looked forward with pleasure to the British securing control of
the holy places in Mesopotamia.
In October and November 1914, it had appeared that enemy
propaganda was likely to cause trouble at Muscat and at
Chahbar. The Sultan of Muscat was under British protection ;
* Although Turco-German pressure may have been partly responsible, these
mujtahids gave us constant trouble. They thought that British control
meant a loss of their power and influence, which was always greater under a
weak and corrupt government.
Muscat and
Chahbar ;
October 1914-
January
I9I5-
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A confidential publication compiled, by arrangement with the Government of India, under the direction of the Historical Section of The Committee of Imperial Defence, by Brigadier-General FJ Moberly. The volume is part of the Official History of the Great War series produced by the British Government.
The volume begins with a preface by Moberly and is then divided into 11 (I-XI) chapters, plus appendices, as follows:
- Chapter I: Introductory
- Chapter II: August 1914 to June 1915, Enemy efforts to bring Persia into the War
- Chapter III: July to November 1915, Enemy action and Persian weakness necessitate Allied intervention
- Chapter IV: December 1915 to May 1916, Successful results of Allied operations
- Chapter V: May to December 1916, Turkish invasion of Western Persia and British measures in South and East Persia
- Chapter VI: December 1916 to August 1917, Effects of British success in Mesopotamia
- Chapter VII: September 1917 to April 1918, The failure of Persia to maintain her neutrality necessitates further British intervention
- Chapter VIII: May to July 1918, The effect in Persia of the German successes in France; and the anti-British outbreak in Fars
- Chapter IX: July to September 1918, The tide turns in favour of the Allies
- Chapter X: October to 11th November 1918, The effect of our victories
- Chapter XI: Conclusion
The volume contains fourteen maps, some of which are in a pocket in the inside back cover, as follows:
- 1. Operations at Bushire 1915 (folio 275)
- 2. Portion of Perso-Afghan frontier (folio 276)
- 3. Operations at Dilbar, 13th-15th August 1915 (folio 66)
- 4. Operations of General Dyer in Sarhad, April-August 1916 (folio 277)
- 5. Wanderings of German parties in Persia and Afghanistan (folio 278)
- 6. Affair of Dasht-i-Arjan, 25th September 1916 (folio 128)
- 7. Affair of Kafta, 5th July 1917 (folio 144)
- 8. Northern Fars (folio 177)
- 9. Action of Deh Shaikh, 25th May 1918 (folio 182)
- 10. Shiraz (folio 194)
- 11. Operations from Bushire, September 1918-January 1919 (folio 279)
- 12. Plan of East Persia L. of C. (folio 231)
- 13. Operations for relief of Firuzabad, October 1918 (folio 236)
- 14. Persia (folio 280)
The volume also includes a bibliography (folio 14).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (279 folios)
- Arrangement
At the front of the volume there is a contents page (ff 6-14), list of maps (f 14), and list of illustrations (f 14). At the back of the volume is a general index (ff 269-73). All refer to the volume's original pagination.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 281; 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.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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