File 3939/1926 Pt 5 'Revision of Aitchison's Treaties: Persia, Seistan, Kerman and Persian Baluchistan' [‎30r] (53/558)

PERSIA.
13
ittimad. This
^ the Persian
lights which
lan » w ho had
0 be agent at
'bjected to the
11 P the post,
^ persistently
November and
rsian Govern.
insinuations
mmd Yusuf,
d Put Saiyij
of Persia for
lation of the
nt. Muham.
on the 26th
’sian Govern-
o the British
the island of
1856. After
aty of Paris
’eaty revived
convention of
Gulf, which
iction of the
n the end of
r the control
al, although
Russia, as a
’, as w r ell as
ke to Russia
nchai. She
were massed
?ndship and
al privileges
pages 98-99)
re-transferred
Tn I860 the Persian Government sent an expedition under the com-
In looU tne i ersnt Turkmans of Merv, who were
maud of Hamza Mirza aga ,i ^ beyond the control of the Central
considered to be Persmn subjects though beyond ^ on
Government, m ordei ° P ual ® ^ of Julyj ihe Turkmans having
Khorasan. Merv was a en ' Persian Commander endeavoured
“^^“tthT^Telrtm hU entrenld camp to more suitable
ground!" h*® was attacked h y the Turkmans and totally routed, the expedi
tion returning to Khorasan in great contusion.
The disorganized state of the border districts of Persia and Turkey
the msorgan dissensions between the two States. Com-
"f- ^ tribes to and from the Pashalik of
plaints of the P a g , t marauders and refugees hy
Baghdad, and of the grant ot an ^ articleg , n the Treaty o{
the frontier anthontres 1 d h for the remedy of the8e
E ,: Z l Um T 0 Ls pr ris?ous proved iJfiectual, fnd in !849 four commis-
abuses. these provrsio p o{ E land; Russia, Persia and
Turkey ^pecti^" L the purpose of defining the border as provided
" ItX dStl piepared
Z the cotmrisron, hut the actual demarcation was not effected, and the
by the commission, u protocol* was signed by the
question remained m on tte simul t aneou3 presentation
1 ersian a . S, ^ i j an( j p, u8 sia at Constantinople and
Tehran ofTmap^hich had been drawn up by the English and Russian
non, missioned On this map a band of territory varying from 25 to 40
maintained unti/the boundary line should he settled, and no buildings
were to be erected on these lands.
T IHRQ the Russians having firmly established themselves at Kras-
- A. cU s*»--
, , a T]1P Persian Government later declared that the AtraK
frontier only referred to the seaboard and to about 50 miles inlan , an
did not include the river to its source^
* Appendix No. XII.
A Appendix No. XIII.
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