'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [‎55r] (114/566)

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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919'

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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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Niedermayer says that Wassmuss had done nothing to justify
the British action ; and he says that Wassmuss himself swore
to be revenged on the British for their “ treacherous ” conduct.
The German Minister, reaching Baghdad about the middle
of March, agreed that further Turco-Persian hostilities must be
prevented and that Niedermayer’s expedition must pose as a
peaceful mission. Without further opposition from the Turks,
the expedition crossed the Persian frontier with the German and
Austrian Ministers on the 3rd April and was met near Qasr-i-
Shirin by twenty-five armed and mounted levies recruited by
Schonemann. Here the local Persian Governor appealed to
Prince Reuss to stop Raouf Bey who, having concentrated about
3,000 irregular troops at Khaniqin, had sent the Governor-
General of Kermanshah an ultimatum. Desirous of con
ciliating the Persians, of preventing a Turkish embroilment
with Persian tribes and of improving Turco-Persian relations,
the German Minister got Raouf to agree to delay his advance
pending negotiations at Kermanshah by Prince Reuss and also
induced the Persians to withdraw their forces.
On arrival at Kermanshah, Niedermayer found that the
activities of Schonemann, Zugmayer and others of his party
had met with gratifying success. On the other hand it was
most embarrassing to hear that Raouf Bey's force, meeting
with no Persian opposition and disregarding his agreement
with the Minister, had occupied Qasr-i-Shirin and Sar-i-Pul.
Soon after this, Niedermayer himself hurried ahead of the
others to Tehran, instructing Seiler and Zugmayer to get to
Isfahan as soon as possible, leaving Winkelmann at Kermanshah
and taking Voigt,* whom he met at Daulatabad, on with him.
Everywhere on his way to Tehran Niedermayer found the
Persians most amenable to German overtures, with the single
exception of Qum, where the clergy refused to have anything
to say to a Jahad or to Turco-German propaganda. At Tehran,
however, where the Cabinet had just resigned (owing, he says,
to Anglo-Russian pressure on the Shah), he found a most
unpleasant situation with German influence at a discount.
Niedermayer admits that, in her own interests, Persia ought
to have kept out of the war at any rate till peace was imminent,
when she might have benefitted by joining the winning side.
But for German purposes it was desirable to bring Persia in as
soon as possible, and his book and the other German accounts
* Voigt had come from Hamadan, where Paschen had been detained by
sickness.

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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).

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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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Title: 'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919'
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