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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [204r] (412/566)
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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TRANS-CASPIA
357
of acceding to their request and pointing out that, if we post
poned action awaiting events, we should probably alienate all
parties. The Commander-in-Chief in India repeated this
telegram to London and at the same time wired to General
Malleson giving him discretion to act as he considered fit it the
delay involved in the reference to London would be prejudicial.
On the 3rd August, however, H.M. Government telegraphed
their decision to support the Menshevik leaders of the Trans-
Caspian movement, as well as their sanction to the despatch to
the Oxus, if considered advisable, of the machine gun section
on the frontier. At the same time, they requested the Govern
ment of India to report the measures of military assistance
which they could carry out from East Persia and added that
General Marshall had been authorised to send, from Persia,
a force with guns to Krasnovodsk, where they were likely to
arrive within the next few days.
During the first week of August the news that General
Malleson received of the fighting on the Oxus was somewhat
conflicting. On the 7th, in a long interview at Meshed with a
representative of the Trans-Caspian Government, General
Malleson explained that while we had no desire to interfere
with their internal affairs we must stipulate for certain facilities
to enable us to organise the defences of Trans-Caspia.* The
delegate said that he had no authority to conclude an agree
ment but that he had no doubt that all these points would be
agreed to. On his part he urged that, as tangible evidence of
our co-operation to the Turkomans and others in Trans-Caspia
who held that we would not perform though we might promise,
and as a definite check to pan-Turkish propaganda, we should
at once despatch two machine guns to the Oxus front. General
Malleson agreed to do this, to send the Trans-Caspian Govern
ment some machine guns, rifles and rifle ammunition, and to
explain to H.M. Government that the Trans-Caspian Govern
ment also required sufficient financial assistance to enable them
to pay their officials, railway employes and army. The delegate
was also informed that we had sent troops to help in the defence
These were briefly: Access to Krasnovodsk and permission to put it
into a defensible state ; a free hand to deal, as military necessity dictated,
with the Trans-Caspian railway ; permission to raise and train forces in Trans-
Caspia to oppose any enemy advance ; all possible assistance from the Trans-
aspian Government in seizing enemy spies and agents, some of whom were
isguised in British uniforms ; the securing of all the cotton in the area ; the
use of the Askabad—Meshed telegraph line ; the improvement to a motor
ransport standard of the Askabad—Meshed road ; and immediate facilities
or a British officer to report on the military situation on the Merv front.
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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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