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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [244r] (494/566)
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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T RAN S-C ASPIA
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to General Marshall to reinforce General Malleson immediately ;
and orders were consequently issued for two companies of the
Warwicks to return at once from Baku to Krasnovodsk, whence
General Malleson was authorised to despatch up to three
companies to Askabad. A report from General Malleson of
the 30th November showed that apprehensions felt in India
regarding the security of the Merv front, owing to the reported
Turkoman intrigues, were groundless, as the difficulties of the
Tashkend Bolsheviks were too great to enable them to attack
effectively ; but that the grave danger of local disturbances at
Askabad had obliged him to order there immediately the
squadron and company from Meshed. He also said that he
was issuing local bills to repay the Trans-Caspian Government
five million roubles, which was approximately what he estimated
was due to them for rations supplied * On the 1st December he
reported that, as a result of a week's hard endeavour, he hoped
he had saved the local Government for the time being ; while
other telegrams sent that day, by Sir Percy Cox at Tehran
holding out hopes of the Imperial Bank there being able to buy
ten million roubles and by General Marshall reporting that
General Thomson had been able to send two million roubles
from Baku to Askabad, promised to relieve temporarily the
financial stringency. The chance of local disturbances at
Askabad was also removed by the arrival there of two companies
of Warwicks on the 3rd and 4th December and by the impending
arrival of the squadron 28th Light Cavalry from Meshed.
On the 2nd December General Malleson expressed his inability Trans-^
to suggest what amount beyond the five million roubles for ^emb
rations should be given the Trans-Caspian Government, owing i 9I 8.
to the important questions of higher policy involved. He read
H.M. Government's declaration of their desire to keep Bolshe
vism out of the region to the east of the Black Sea as intended
to include Turkestan, but apparently the Government of India
thought otherwise ; and he consequently asked for an authori
tative decision. He pointed out that the Trans-Caspian troops
were unable to stand alone and then went on, after discussing
the alternative policies before us, to urge a precise indication of
British policy for the immediate future. No satisfactory
results, he concluded, were likely to accrue from half measures
and we should either see the business through or withdraw.
The Government of India accordingly asked 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.
on
the 5th December whether Turkestan was in cluded in the
* He could not get a figure from the Trans-Caspian Government, but they
accepted his estimate.
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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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