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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [86v] (177/566)
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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140
OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
Central and favoured a treaty, and in consequence the three-cornered
West ianua a; conversations between Tehran, London and Petrograd dragged t 1
191 Z on for many months without result. But the fact that the (
negotiations were proceeding seems to have had an appreciable 1
effect on Persian policy. ,
On the 21st January one of Baratoffs columns occupied !
Sultanabad, thus reducing still further the area under German i
control. But though the reinforcing cavalry division was 1
due at Hamadan in the first week of February, heavy falls of <
snow in the area seemed likely to delay the main advance on i
Kermanshah. j
Riesling says that he arrived at Kermanshah on the 25th f
January. After a thorough discussion with Goltz it had been a
decided that their first aim must be to organise a more efficient I
line of communication from Constantinople to Baghdad and c
that they could then proceed to build up a national Persian i
army round the Persian gendarmerie. His experiences on his :
journey to Kermanshah showed Kiesling how difficult it would
be to create a good line of communication through the Persian
mountains, where, moreover, the country was more suitable
to military operations by small detachments than by a large
force. At Kermanshah itself he realised what little reliance
could be placed on Persian tribal co-operation and that, in any
case, little could be done till the promised money, personnel
and material came from Germany. To meet only the obliga
tions already incurred the German mission required a monthly
sum of at least two million marks, and there was nothing like
this amount of cash available, the paper money (printed in
Persian characters) sent from Germany being quite unnegoti-
able. Though some officers allotted to the mission were on
their way, none of the material was forthcoming; and the
Germans had other difficulties to contend with. They found
that their activities, based on an expressed desire to establish
the independence of Persia, were constantly undermined and
thwarted by the Chauvinistic policy of the Turks. Kiesling,
who felt that the only result of German action had been to
turn neutral Persia into a war area and to bring about a ^
Russian advance which threatened the Turks in Mesopotamia, ]
left Kermanshah again on the 6 th February to return to c
Baghdad. He considered it essential to proceed there so as 1
to explain to General Headquarters in Berlin how far they ha r
been misled concerning conditions in Persia,
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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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