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File 3443/1914 Pt 2 'German War: German emissaries to Afghanistan' [228r] (468/490)
The record is made up of 1 volume (238 folios). It was created in 1 Jun 1915-21 Nov 1915. It was written in English and French. 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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(1) -to turn local feeling against enemy and
(2) avoid increasing existing anti-British feeling
in Persia.
As regards (1), Turkish incursion furnishes an admir
able object less-on. Its result was to re-awake latent
hostility of Persians against Turks and also to make much
talked of Jehad complete failure. Germans or rather Y/ass-
muss with his plan of attack on Bushire may render their
cause similar disservice: and proof is that German Minis
ter is now trying to induce YVassmuss to return to ieheran
just as Turkish Ambassador appealed to Raouf to withdraw
to Turkey. Presumably Bushire ought to be now able to
defend itself and I can think of nothing more helpful to
us than Yfessmuss's attack. In another direction we should
endeavour to dtilize press and I have just been enaoled to
make arrangements with that object by having had some funds
placed at my disposal by His Majesty's Government.
As regards (2) we should avoid any overt action
against Germans and (?operate provisionally) through
Persian Government. Present Cabinet has done something in
this direction and I have obtained despatch of strong in
structions to Governors of Kerman and Seistan to hold up
enemy emissaries and disarm their followers but it depends
on what support we can give them whether these instructions
will be carried out effectively. Like everything in Persia
this/question of money more than anything else. Germans
have well understood value of this weapon and I have every
reason to believe since I arrived here in middle of April
eneny missions here have been able to dispose of £50,000
at least, while German agents in provinces appear to be
proportionately well supplied. Until quite recently our
policy
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The volume contains correspondence regarding the Persian Campaign of the First World War and the movements and activities of the Central Powers in Persia [Iran] between June and November 1915. The correspondence is particularly concerned with German and Ottoman attempts to infiltrate Afghanistan from Persia, and of ensuring the continued neutrality of both Afghanistan and Persia.
The primary correspondents are the British Legation, Tehran; the British Embassy, Petrograd [Saint Petersburg]; the Government of India; and the Foreign Office.
The volume contains a single folio in French (f 184), a communication from the Russian Ambassador in London.
The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (238 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 238; 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.
A previous foliation sequence between ff 121-127, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers.
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- English and French in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/L/PS/10/473
- Title
- File 3443/1914 Pt 2 'German War: German emissaries to Afghanistan'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:41v, 42ar, 42r:42v, 43ar, 43r:48v, 50r:96v, 100r:122v, 123ar, 123r:145v, 148r:183v, 185r:212v, 213ar, 213r:219v, 220ar, 220r:222v, 223ar, 223r:238v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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