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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [102v] (209/566)
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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170
OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
border and the British
political agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
at Kalat (Colonel Dew)
had to be sent at once to tour Jhallawan with a strong military
escort in order to restore order.*
German On the 27th May the Chief of the General Staff in India
Afghanistan 5 telegraphed to General Dyer that the German mission was
(See Map 5 !) reported to have left Kabul on the 21st to return to Persia via
Herat. This report proved to be correct. German accounts
show that for some time past the patience of the mission had
been sorely tried, in their many interviews with the Amir, at
their failure to win him over from his neutral attitude and his
loyalty to his word to the British. The Germans had managed
after a time, by punctilious behaviour, to gain almost complete
freedom of movement; and the Amir had gone so far as to
utilise their services in helping to increase the efficiency of
his arsenal and various factories and also, latterly, in carrying
out other military preparations. But he would go no further.
On their part they laid themselves out to cultivate friendly
relations with the high officials, most of them anti-British, and
they started a system of propaganda, not only in Afghanistan
but in India and especially among the frontier tribesmen.
Mahsuds, Mohmands and Afridis, says Niedermayer, responded
well to German instructions and this, he boasts, in many cases
fructified later.f
Very little reliable news had reached the mission from the
outside world, but in mid-April Niedermayer says that he
obtained reliable information from a friendly Indian who had
come from Kerman. The news was bad. The German Minister
at Tehran had fled to Baghdad ; Russian columns were ad
vancing on Isfahan and Kermanshah ; Seiler's party had come
into conflict with the British in East Persia, f Winkelmann
having been captured ; Seiler was at Kerman preparing for
another advance ; and Zugmayer was working in the Bam-
Bampur area. Niedermayer, feeling that his own presence
was required in Persia, decided to ascertain definitely if the
* To complete its task, this escort had to prolong its operations till the
beginning of August.
f In the light of subsequent events, it seems evident that Niedermagr
and his mission laid the seeds of the trouble which India experienced o
North-West Frontier
Region of British India bordering Afghanistan.
, in India and with Afghanistan from the summer o
to 1920. ..,
+ It is interesting to note that Niedermayer still believed that the Bri
force in East Persia was 10,000 strong and that the Russians had a
brigade there.
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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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