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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [224v] (453/566)
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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398
• OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
Trans- Government were the only body with whom we could deal
October but > unless Government required their co-operation with
191 s! other Allied movements against the Bolsheviks, General
Malleson’s support should be limited to what was required by
the considerations outlined above. In any case, the difficulties
of communication with Meshed and the shortage of transport
made it impossible to despatch any considerable force there
from India. The Government of India considered that for the
time being we should continue to support the Trans-Caspian
Government, subject to their undertaking to reorganise and
control their forces satisfactorily, to their acceptance of the
military measures considered necessary by our military represen
tatives, to their ceasing to treat barbarously their military-
political prisoners and to their according equitable and proper
treatment to the Turkomans. We should have to give the
Trans-Caspian Government some financial assistance and also
military support to the extent possible, so as to prevent a
Bolshevik advance west of Kaahka, to keep the Turkomans in
order and to maintain communication between Meshed and
Krasnovodsk. Without express orders from H.M. Government,
however, the Government of India proposed to make it clear
that our troops were not on any account to engage in enter
prises east of Kaahka.
The Bolshevik force, retiring eastward of Tejend, was re
ported a few days later to have been reinforced and to have
the intention of taking the offensive from a point to the west
ward of Merv, where it had stayed its retrograde movement
But a threat to its communications by a party of Indian
cavalry and Turkomans sent to move wide of its flanks caused
it to retreat hurriedly, abandoning Merv and evacuating Kushk;
and on the 1st November the Trans-Caspian force occupied
Merv.
Trans- This rapid Bolshevik retirement appears to have been rather
November unexpected by General Malleson, though he had reported to
1918 . India on the 31st October that, if the Allied leaders in Siberia
could prevent reinforcements reaching the Bolsheviks via
Orenburg, their early evacuation of the Merv-Kushk line was
quite likely and that their next line on the Oxus could be taken
by us in the spring if they had not collapsed by then. On e
1st November he sent a further telegram announcing the occu
pation of Merv. But neither this nor the telegram of the
October reached India till the 4th November, though a c ear
line message which he sent on the 2 nd had arrived the same ay.
In this he said that, if the Orenburg door was kept close ,
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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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