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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [172v] (349/566)
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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300
OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
British in this area. On the 12th May General Dunsterville
left Ramadan for Kazvin and Tehran, where he discussed the
situation with Sir Charles Marling.
Persian The distress in the famine-stricken capital, as in the sur-
politics and pounding country, was still very great, though a good deal had
Br uc S ^ been done by British and Americans to alleviate matters.
Mayigls. Tehran was still terrorised by the extremists—though a counter-
assassination of one of their most prominent writers had caused
them somewhat to abate their activities—and money could
scarcely be found, even for the most urgent Government
requirements.
The Cabinet of Mustaufi-ul-Mamalik, forced by public dis
approval of its incapacity to resign on the 25th April, had been
succeeded on the 3rd May by one under Samsam-es-Sultaneh,
a senior Bakhtiari Khan. But any hopes that we held of a
consequent improvement in administration were soon dispelled,
On the 14th May, in reply to a request from the Foreign Office,
Sir Charles Marling telegraphed his views on the situation. He
said that, though the Premier himself was well disposed towards
us, neither he nor his supporters were strong enough to oppose
the anti-British element in the Cabinet. It seemed probable,
however, that it would soon be replaced by an Anglophile
Ministry under Vossuk-ud-Daula. The anti-British propa
ganda promoted by successive Persian Governments during
the past eleven months had undoubtedly affected the small
proportion of the populace interested in politics, but the British
Minister did not consider that German propaganda was making
much headway, in spite of the multiplication of German agents
and their extensive bribes. The real pro-German and pro-
Turkish parties were, he thought, very small. The Jangali
movement seemed to be losing ground at Resht,* thoug
extending its activities further east.f It was, however, difficu
to gauge and the Persian Government had no means of dealing
with it. , ,
After General Dunsterville’s departure from Tehran, u
apparently as a result of the discussion with him, Sir Char es
Marling, who did not consider that the Persian levies em b
raised in North-West Persia would be of any military va ue,
telegraphed to the Foreign Office on t he 18th May pr oj^
* A party of about forty Turkish officers who arrived at Resht a ^j^ ance
period appeared to be quite unsuccessful in their attempt to gain
from the Jangalis, who strongly disapproved the Turkish invasion
territory. ' limans was a
f This Jangali attempt to gain co-operation from the XurK
failure.
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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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