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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [‎51r] (106/566)

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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BUSHIRE THREATENED
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however, able to reassure them. It was also reported that
the well-known German secret service agent Baron Oppenheim
had left Constantinople for Afghanistan with a large sum in
ready money.
Throughout June, Wassmuss continued his efforts, from the Bushire;
neighbourhood of Borazjan, to organise attacks on Bushire J unei9I5 ‘
by bribes and by promises of support from a German war
ship. Three other Germans with a quantity of arms and
ammunition were said to have joined him towards the end
of the month ; and he looked so like being successful that
the Persian Governor appealed to his Government to prevent
trouble by getting Wassmuss recalled. His action, said the
Governor, gave the British justifiable grounds for military
intervention.
In Mesopotamia and India the situation was being closely
watched. From Basra, General Nixon sent two captured
Turkish 13-pounder guns with instructors to train gun-crews
from the Indian infantry at Bushire ; and just afterwards
(on the 24th June) he was warned by India that he might
be called on to send troops there at short notice. On the
28th, receiving orders that he was to be responsible for its
defence, he was told that our sole aim was to protect Bushire
and that no operations outside that place were to be under
taken without sanction from India. H.M. Government de
sired to avoid any military action that might serve as an
excuse for Persia to abandon her neutrality and also any
military commitment in that country. The troops at Bushire
would henceforward form part of Force “ D,” the other
troops in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and the Gulf of Oman coming
under the command of the senior officer present, then Colonel
W. H Wooldridge of the 126th Baluchistan Infantry at Muscat.
Enemy propaganda was also active along the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. P ersianGulf
littoral, but it had little effect and at Muscat the arrest of ^^1915
four Arabs acting as German agents had a tranquillising effect.
In Makran, however, the Khan of Bampur was reported to
be collecting a force to join the mullah, who had previously
attacked Jask and Chahbar, in further hostilities against the
British; and in the last week of June the Dalhousie was sent
to Gwadur to meet an attack there which was reported to
be imminent. Before the ship could arrive, however, the
attack had been definitely repulsed by a party of the Makran
Levy Corps.

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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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