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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [‎149r] (302/566)

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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BRITISH POLICY
259
general friendliness to British intersets and paying due regaid
to British representations ; the security of Persia against Turco-
German intrigues and more especially against the entry of
roving bands ; and the recognition of the South Persia Rifles in
their existing form and organisation until the end of the war.
The War Office were impressed, said the Foreign Office, with
the danger of penetration by roving bands through the depleted
lines of Russian defences between Isfahan and the Caspian ;
and a friendly Persian Government should be prepared to
undertake and guarantee its security. If invited, H.M. Govern
ment would endeavour to aid Persia in this task by lending
her, for the duration of the war, a fleet of armoured cars with
the necessary personnel. Further current expenditure in Persia
on a large scale, however, continued the Foreign Office, would
have to be most carefully examined, owing both to the great
difficulty of providing krans and to the heavy liability already
incurred in advancing Persian currency for the maintenance of
the Russian forces remaining in Persia. As a subsidiary point,
Sir Charles Marling would be authorised to offer inducements to
local tribes or chieftains to arrest and hand over the European
leaders of enemy bands ; though this would not apply to the
Bushire-Shiraz road, which H.M. Government would rather
allow to remain closed than concede blackmail to the rebel
Khans, whose notorious evil doings called for condign
punishment.
On the 20th November Sir Charles Marling reported that,
owing to the general and bitter attacks on the Persian Cabinet,
the Shah had decided on another attempt to reconstruct it.
But, as he insisted on including Ministers committed to an
anti-British policy, there was little chance of a Cabinet being
formed which would justify our financial support.
On the 22nd Sir C. Marling telegraphed that he concurred
generally in the views expressed in the Foreign Office telegram
of the 16th. He considered that the danger from roving bands
lay in the use that they might make of disaffected tribes in
the west and north-west—such as the Jangalis of Gilan, who
were practically masters of Resht and of some fifty miles of the
Kazvin road—to threaten, with the help of the local revolu
tionary element, the existing regime at Tehran, where the
situation was none too stable, owing to the general discontent
with the Shah and to the fear of famine. If the Russian troops
could not be relied upon, armoured cars would be a guarantee
against such a danger, but, as it would be useless to place them
at the disposal of the existing Persian Government, they should

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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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