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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [105r] (214/566)
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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TURCO-GERMAN PLANS
175
Enver reached Baghdad on the 19th May with a large staff,
including his German Chief of Staff, von Schellendorf, and
members of the German and Austrian military missions ; but
none of them would support Gleich in his objections to an active
Persian policy. In fact, he found his position so anomalous
that he would have resigned but for Falkenhayn's request that
he would remain and do what he could to assist in the forth
coming operations. After visiting Kut and Khaniqin, Enver
decided that Persia was to be the main theatre of operations
for the Sixth Army, its advance being co-ordinated with a great
offensive in the north which the Second Army, supported by
the Third, was to begin in July. Enver, impressed by the
pleasant manners of Nizam-es-Sultaneh and the Persian consul
at Baghdad, also came to a definite agreement with them
before he left to return to Turkey on the 25th May. At this
time German influence in Turkey was at a low ebb and, in
consequence of this Turco-Persian agreement, Gleich found the
arrogant attitude of Turks and Persians towards him and the
other Germans almost unbearable. His own intense dislike of
the Persian policy, in which he was obliged to acquiesce but
which he really considered as both hopeless and dangerous, led
more and more to a deterioration of his relations with the
Persians and with Halil. It must have been, therefore, some
relief when—the Turks, at the beginning of June, having
arrogated to themselves complete control of the Persians in
Mesopotamia—he sent orders for all the German and Swedish
officers with these Persians to give up their appointments and
return to Baghdad, thus putting an end to the German military
character of the mission, a result he had been striving to achieve
for several weeks. By this time practically the whole of the
Turkish XIII Corps had been concentrated near Khaniqin, in
readiness to advance on Kermanshah.
Owing to the general improvement in the situation in West
and Central Persia, consequent on Baratoff's operations, the
British Consul-General (Mr. Grahame) and British community
were able to return to Isfahan from Ahwaz during May ; and
with them went Lieutenant-Colonel H. A. K. Gough to take
up the appointment of British consul at Kermanshah.*
At Shiraz, though most of the German agents were prisoners Shiraz ;
with many of their partisans, the activity of a number of M ay 1916
Democrats and rebellious gendarmerie gave some cause for
anxiety till it became certain that Saulat was really assisting
* He was subsequently detailed to go instead to Shiraz and Lieut.-Colonel
R. L. Kennion was sent to take up the Kermanshah appointment.
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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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