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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [52v] (109/566)
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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76
OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
German there was also dissension among the Germans themselves over
& ^activities the proposal to organise the expedition on a military basis,
of their owing to the loss of individual liberty which this would involve,
emissaries; Moreover, Wassmuss, who appears to have been rather arbitrary,
19 * 14 - uncultured and eccentric* was an unpopular leader ; and the
June, 1915. superior attitude which he and Zugmayer adopted as experts
on oriental conditions did not improve matters. Eventually
some of the objecting members were dismissed for misbehaviour
and others were allowed to join the column fitting out for an
attack on the Suez Canal.
At this stage, learning of the British intention to attack
Basra, Niedermayer, who knew the locality, proposed to use
the Turkish gunboat and the German steamship Ekbatana to
form a block in the river below Abadan and to set on fire the oil
tanks and refinery at that place. The Turkish authorities agreed,
and Niedermayer was setting out for Basra to supervise the
arrangements when orders came from Berlin not to destroy
Abadan but to retain it for Turco-German use. Niedermayer
was to await the arrival of a mission with special equipment
that was being sent for the purpose. But Niedermayer declined
to have anything to do with the new proposal, which he implies
was responsible for preserving Abadan for the British.
On the 5th December, the second consignment of stores and
equipment having arrived, Niedermayer, his doctor brother,
Consten and Griesinger, with twenty-seven men left Constan
tinople, reaching Aleppo eight days later. From Aleppo they
were to go to Mosul to join the expedition which Halil Bey was
organising for an advance into Persia. Niedermayer also says
that they learnt then for the first time that the Turks some weeks
before had sent a small diplomatic missionf to Afghanistan under
Obeidulla Effendi. The suspicion thus aroused that the Turks
were not keeping faith with them was not lessened by the passive
obstruction they and several of the other members encountered
in their journeys to Aleppo and beyond. About this time the
mission under Klein destined to defend Abadan reached Aleppo,
but, as the British had already secured Abadan, Klein proposed
to proceed to Karbala and induce the Shiah mujtahids there to
start anti-Ally propaganda in Persia.
In the meantime, Wassmuss, who had failed to persuade the
Turks to agree to his own plan to move through South-West
and South Persia, had decided to go there himself and work
* He was believed by several of his companions to have turned Moslem.
f This never reached its destination.
HSHWBWBHWH
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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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