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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [‎85v] (175/566)

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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138
OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
West Persia; showed little inclination for serious fighting. Consequently
January Baxatoff's main column, reinforced by the 4,000 rifles of a
I916 * frontier regiment, occupied Kangavar on the 13th January
without much opposition, and prepared to advance on Ken
manshah as soon as the cavalry division (3,600 sabres and 12
mountain guns), then on its way from Baku, had reached
Hamadan. On the 15th, Kanitz, with a force composed of a
Turkish battalion, some gendarmerie and tribal levies, attacked
the Russian outposts. But the tribesmen would not fight and
the attack miscarried, whereupon Kanitz, apparently realising
the failure of his policy, disappeared and was reported to have
committed suicide.
Information had been received by the British at the beginning
of the month that though the Vali of Pusht-i-Kuh might appear
to be siding with the enemy, neither he nor his son had any real
intention of doing so. The news from West Persia, which since
British consuls had left had been rather indefinite and un
reliable, now seemed to show also that other tribal chiefs there
were not really giving the Germans much effective assistance,
That this supposition was correct is confirmed by the German
accounts, which say that the Germans got little return for the
vast sums of money they spent among the tribesmen and
especially among the Lurs and Kurds. For instance, Nizam-
es-Sultaneh (ex-Governor of Luristan), to whom they made a
personal monthly allowance of £4,000 on the understanding
that he would raise for them a force of at least 10,000 horsemen,
never produced any noteworthy force beyond his own personal
escort of one hundred men; while Klein, who had been
organising a force at Kermanshah since September, found that
the most reliable body under his command was that formed of
fifty Pathan deserters from the Indian Army.
The main danger seemed to be the large Turkish force, which
reports from Mesopotamia and elsewhere all agreed was about
to invade Persia. Turkish troops had certainly begun to move
across the Persian frontier and it seemed more than probabe
that they would ere long be joined by others released by our
recent evacuation of Gallipoli.
South Persia; The forced departure from Shiraz, and subsequently to 11
^ ez d a nd Kerman, of the British consuls had upset our in e
* gence arrangements in those areas also, while a new orgams
tion based on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ports, East Persia and Mes
had not yet begun to function properly. At this period, there o

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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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