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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [45r] (94/566)
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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FURTHER ENEMY AGGRESSION
61
another confirmation of the evident unwillingness to face facts ;
and this, combined with information that the Governor-General
at Shiraz was persisting in his close association with the
Germans, forced the British Minister on the 2nd April to
remonstrate in very plain terms to the Persian Government.
This seems to have had some effect. For within a week the
Persian Prime Minister, expressing a desire not to forfeit the
goodwill of H.M. Government, agreed to drop the question of
a Russian withdrawal and to send telegraphic instructions
which at once had the effect of bringing about a temporary
improvement in the Fars situation. At the same time the
Prime Minister asked that the British and Russian Govern
ments would agree to a suspension of the Persian debt service
for a period of two years with effect from the 1st August 1914.
In the meantime, the situation at Kermanshah had become
more threatening. A Turkish force was reported to be on its
way to take Qasr-i-Shirin ; German emissaries were displaying
increased activity in propaganda and were enlisting and arming
local ruffians; and the Persian garrison professed to have no
orders either to oppose the invasion or to stop German hostile
activities. The town was consequently in a very disturbed
state and Sir Walter Townley authorised the British consul to
leave there if necessary for Hamadan.
Disquieting news also came from Isfahan, to which place a
German named Zugmayer, accompanied by a Captain Griesinger,
was said to be on his way. Zugmayer was reported to be a
Bavarian reserve officer and a professor of natural history, who
had spent four months in British Makran in 1911. As he
was well informed about that country it seemed very probable
that he was on his way to cause trouble there.
Owing to the assurances and actions of the Persian Prime
Minister, Sir Walter Townley believed that the Persian Govern
ment really intended at last to take proper steps to maintain
neutrality. It also seemed to him that the German propa
ganda was losing ground and that if left alone it was more
likely to lose effect than if Persian public opinion was excited
by his bringing constant pressure to bear on the Government.
It was for these reasons that on the 12th April he deprecated
a suggestion that he should ask the Persian Government to
demand the recall of Wassmuss and to prevent German
emissaries at Isfahan and elsewhere from leaving those places
to proceed eastward. He also disagreed with a proposal from
the Foreign Office in London that British officials in South
Persia should try to arrange with friendly local chiefs to
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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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