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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [213v] (431/566)
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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376
OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
Bushire ; overtures so as to ascertain our intentions. Mr. Bill considered
September ^ Governor of Bushire would have to call on Ghazanfar
(See Map 9 !! 8 ) to disperse his armed following and that if he refused it would
be necessary for British troops to occupy Chah Kutah. On
the 22nd September Mr. Bill further reported that Zair Khidar
with thirty men had joined Shaikh Husain and Ghazanfar at
Chah Kutah and, as overtures were expected at any moment,
he asked for immediate instructions.
The Government of India sent these instructions on the 23rd,
As they considered it obvious that the object of the outlaw
Khans was to surrender and come to terms and that the presence
of their armed following was only a customary precaution,
everything calculated to lead them to foolish action was to be
avoided and every opportunity should be given to them to
surrender. The Government of India, considering that a cam
paign of Khan hunting was to be avoided at all costs, deprecated
any demand for immediate disbandment of the armed following
and said that negotiations were to be carried out in a sensible
way unless the overtures were contumacious or otherwise really
unacceptable.
On the 24th September the Chief of the General Staff in
India telegraphed instructions to General Douglas, of which
the following is the gist. He was to command the field force
operating in the Bushire hinterland and Ears, in co-operation
with a column from Shiraz, which would come under his orders
for operations west of Khan-i-Zinian. He would be in full
political control of the areas, outside the Bushire peninsula,
directly affected by the operations, and Mr. Bill would be the
Chief Political Officer on his staff. General Douglas was to keep
the Government of India and Sir Percy Cox at Tehran fully
informed of all political developments and was to refer to these
authorities all questions of permanent policy. Should any
question, even indirectly affecting permanent policy, arise, in
which Mr. Bill's advice to him was not acceptable, a reference
to the Government of India would be necessary, except in
such an extremely urgent case that there was no time for
reference and, in that contingency, the Government of In &
should receive an immediate report of the decision taken.
General Douglas was told that his objectives were (i) ^
establishment of an advanced base at Dalaki, including ^
construction to that place of the light railway, and (nj ^
deliberate advance therefrom to Kazerun with the °bj ec ^ ^
co-operation with the Shiraz column, of opening up the Bus u
-Kazerun-Shiraz trade route. If his advance was oppose ,
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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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