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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [‎260r] (526/566)

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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assistance Sir Percy Cox then went on to ask if it would not
be possible to discuss frankly Wlt h America the necessity for
reforms in Persia and the desirability of an international
mandate to us to carry them out. It would, he said, seem
quite lo^cal for the^ Peace Conference or the subsequent
League of Nations to inform Persia that, as the last ten years
had demonstrated her inability to govern herself and had
resulted m a perpetual state of chaos and famine with a danger
of Bolshevism, it was necessary in the interests of humanity
and civilisation for some competent Power to take her in hand
In conclusion, Sir Percy Cox pointed out that Persian interests
demanded that she should start the creation of a force and
reform her administration before our troops, war subsidy and
special arrangements were withdrawn. Otherwise, most of her
provinces would be left in a state of complete disorder, which
she would have neither the money nor the force to cope with.
On the 19th November, the Foreign Office informed Sir Percy
Cox that, as Great Britain was providing the money to maintain
the Persian administration, it was not too much to suggest that
if they considered a foreign financial adviser necessary he must
be a British subject. In reply on the 21st Sir Percy Cox said
that, with the Persian mind full of the Peace Conference and of
what Persia hoped to obtain from it, any attempt on his part
to secure the appointment of a British financial adviser was
doomed to failure. He, therefore, proposed to shelve the ques
tion for a few weeks, till Persians were better able to gauge their
real position and to advise a suitable permanent policy.
The Eastern Committee in London discussed on the 21st
November a number of recent telegrams regarding Persia's
wish to be represented at the Peace Conference. Her motives
were not clear, but it seemed likely that she desired to raise
the whole question of her independence, especially regarding
the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and that, after obtaining admission under the
®gis of Great Britain, she might endeavour to play off the
various nations against one another. It would, it was felt, be
preferable if Persian matters were not raised at the Conference
at all, but as her admission did not rest with us, we must be
prepared to meet her there.
The need for a public announcement in Persia of the assurances
re garding British intentions, which the Foreign Office had agreed
to on the 31st October, had, in the meantime, lost its urgency ,
and the letter notifying these to the Persian Government was
only issued, after some discussion over the precise terms of the

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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.

Physical characteristics

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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