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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [147v] (299/566)
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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OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
256
information from enemy sources that the Turco-German often-
would begin within a month and that the Turks, occupying
Azerbaijan and invading Persia, would then move towards
Turkestan in the north, and Afghanistan in the south. Also
that they were sending 300,000 rifles to arm Persians.
To the Chief of the Imperial General Staff it appeared
improbable that the enemy meant to attempt more than the
recapture of Northern Mesopotamia and the despatch of small
parties to stir up trouble in Persia, Afghanistan and Turkestan.
But the Government of India were not convinced that he was
right. News had just been received of the Turkish intention
to send back to Persia the gendarmerie and levies—who had
accompanied the Turkish XIII Corps in its retirement in
March—evidently with a view to furthering enemy aims ; and
it was also suspected that the unrest in Russian Turkestan was
a manifestation of the pan-Turkish movement, which aimed
at linking up the Turks of
Anatolia
Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey.
, through the Caucasus and
Turkestan, with the Turks of Bokhara.
On the 19th September the Government of India addressed
the
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.
on the subject. Russia, they assumed, would
be unable to hinder effectively the enemy plan, which seemed
to imply a movement on a broad front via Azerbaijan, Urmia
and Qasr-i-Shirin into the Tehran-Hamadan area, followed by
an advance into Afghanistan by two or three lines, either in
small parties or in force. To counter this plan they suggested
political action as follows. The only prospect of obtaining the
co-operation of the Persian Government appeared, they said,
to lie in our ability to demonstrate that we harboured no designs
on Persian independence and desired sincerely, in our own
interests, to see that country strong and self-sufficient. They,
therefore, again advocated, though they admitted that the idea
might seem Utopian, that we should conciliate the Democrats
as a possible means of influencing, through subsidies and other
inducements, the tribal chiefs and other Persian leaders to
support us. The military precautions they advocated were
A development of our intelligence system throughout Western
Persia, in which the support of local notables suggested above
would assist greatly; the effective recognition by the Persian
Government of the South Persia Rifles, whose command we
might agree to hand over to a Persian general advised by a
British staff ; and the improvement of communications as
recommended separately, i.e., the extension of the railway froin
Dalbandin to the Persian frontier and the improvement of t e
Bandar Abbas-Saidabad-Kerman road.
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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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