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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [‎222r] (448/566)

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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brought about by an expenditure of two million roubles, and
General Malleson himself thought that the chances might
warrant risking this sum.
On the same day as this telegram was received at Simla
another telegram arrived from the Kashgar Mission giving a
restmi of the situation in Turkestan, derived from reports from
Sir George Macartney, Colonel Bailey and Major Blacker, who
had all reached Tashkend from Kashgar in August. This
Mission had left Kashgar before our troops had intervened in
Trans-Caspia and it had been impossible to stop it. The
Turkestan Soviet had naturally regarded it with great suspicion,
but Sir George Macartney had been able to convince the
Bolshevik leaders that it had come from the British and Indian
Governments and was entitled to some consideration. Sir
George Macartney and Major Blacker had managed, not without
difficulty, to leave Tashkend again on the 14th September and
return to Kashgar. But Colonel Bailey had remained, as his
position seemed fairly secure.* Their report confirmed the
general and intense hatred towards the Bolsheviks and also the
possibility of their being turned out of power by the Left
Social Revolutionary party, who without being pro-British
favoured the continuance of the war against Germany; and it
also said that there was a constant and universal cry for British
intervention and British occupation. The native population,
desiring tranquillity and security, would welcome any party or
foreign intervention affording this. Nine thousand of the thirty
thousand or so Austrian and German prisoners of war had been
forced to join the Red Army, in which they exceeded the
number of real Russians. They could control the whole country
if they could obtain arms and ammunition and they might
become masters any day, in which case Germany could have
Turkestan. They had instructions, it was said, from their own
Governments not to leave Turkestan, as they might be required
to play an important part later. But actually most of them
wished only to be repatriated and had no desire to fight against
the Allies or to remain in Turkestan.
The War Office were asked by the Commander-in-Chief in
India if they considered that the expenditure of the two million
roubles was justified by the general Russian situation. But
they replied that, as their experience during the past year had
shown that financial assistance to anti-Bolshevik Russian
* There was subsequently considerable anxiety about him, as he was
obviously in. danger. But he eventually succeeded in escaping safely.

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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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