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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [211r] (426/566)
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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IMPROVEMENT IN WAR SITUATION 371
to watch Baku, capture all shipping entering or leaving that
port and, if necessary, harass the railway. The Russian fleet,
owing to lack of fuel, would either have to go to Baku or to
join us or Bicharakoff, and in the last named case it would be
advisable to continue our subsidy to that officer. The Com
modore would keep Krasnovodsk and Enzeli open, seize
shipping at the mouth of the Volga and would show the flag
round the Caspian littoral. It was estimated that the cost of
all this would total about £26,000 a month and General Marshall
considered that the Commodore's proposals were the best that
could be devised to carry out the War Cabinet's policy.
On the 30th September General Gillman, visiting Tehran,
accompanied Sir Percy Cox to an interview with Vossuk and
was able to reassure him completely regarding our ability to
stop any further Turkish advance into Persia and to maintain
Persian security at Enzeli and on the Caspian.
The general war situation continued to improve, as is shown
by the following extracts from a telegram sent on the 30th
September by the War Office to the Commander-in-Chief in
India:—
“ During the past week the Allies in the Western theatre
have been driving the enemy back along practically the
whole front of 2(X) miles between the sea and the Meuse.
The British have broken through the famous Hindenburg
line, over 50,000 prisoners and several hundred guns have
been taken and the number of captures is constantly
increasing. ... In the Balkans the Allied success
has been turned into a decisive victory and an armistice
has been concluded. Bulgaria by this action has separated
herself from her Allies; and communications between
Germany and Austria on the one hand and Turkey on the
other hand will shortly be cut. In Palestine the Fourth
Turkish Army east of the Jordan is surrounded. . . .
Over 50,000 prisoners and 325 guns have been captured.
These events remove all danger of Turkish aggression in
Persia and Trans-Caspia. The whole situation in all
theatres of war has been transformed. . . . and the
situation of Austria and Germany will shortly be desperate."
The imminence of the fall of Baku led 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.
to East Persia ;
telegraph on the 9th September to the Government of India September
emphasising the importance of strengthening our position at I9lS *
Meshed and our capacity for action in Trans-Caspia ; and they
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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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