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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [68v] (141/566)
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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104
OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
Isfahan were evidently in considerable danger, but it was
considered necessary for them to remain as long as possible j
and it was hoped that the warnings sent by H.M. Government,
that they would hold the Persian authorities concerned
responsible for their safety, would enable them to do so.
Isfahan ; German accounts and especially Niedermayer's book throw
July-August an interesting light on German methods in Persia, and we may
I9I5 ‘ take the following brief summary of Seiler's activities in Isfahan
as being generally applicable to the other emissaries. Finding
that most of the people who had at first espoused the German
cause so warmly had done so mainly for the material advan
tages which they hoped to gain by a change of government,
Seiler devoted his attention to winning over the leading men
of all classes. Niedermayer denies that he did this by lavish
bribery, as he says that for the three months or so that Seiler
was in Isfahan he was only given some £700 to spend. He
found that the priests would have nothing to do with the
Turkish Jahad, but he succeeded by other means in gaining
their sympathy in increasing numbers. The prominent
merchants he was able to ignore as, unless they were Democrats,
they were unorganised and generally indifferent to politics.
The gendarmerie were always friendly, but the great landowners
though apparently sympathetic really remained neutral. With
the Bakhtiaris he was unable to obtain any definite results,
though one of their Khans gave him much assistance in the
hope of thus obtaining reinstatement of his lost status. Seiler
also endeavoured to win over Saulat-ud-Daula and his Qashqai
tribesmen and to bring about a reconciliation between them
and the Bakhtiaris. But here again he met with little success
and he was compelled to undertake acts of direct injury to the
Allies, such as destruction of the English telegraph lines an
the subornment of their consulate guards. The escape
Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war were an extraordinary
mixture of Poles, Hungarians, Croats, Ruthenians, Rumanians
and Bohemians, incessantly fighting with one another an
difficult to train into a useful body of men. But they even n
ally gave valuable and faithful assistance. By the en o
August, says Niedermayer, the German position at an
was so strong, with so much public opinion in its favour, ^
the enemy consuls and subjects were reduced to a sta ^ .
impotence which enabled Seiler to work directly for e
complete expulsion.
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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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