ملف ٣٩٣٩/١٩٢٦ الجزء ٤ "المنشورات: تنقيح معاهدات أيتشيسون: القسم المتعلق بأفغانستان." [و‎‎٢‎٩‎٨] (٣٧٠/١٧٩)

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the terms of the Protocol of London of the 29th August (10th September) 1885’
the Sarik Turkomans of the Penjdeh Oasis had been dispossessed of the lands
Thick they had previously held, and those lands had been included in the terri
tory of Afghanistan.
Having regard to this difference of opinion, and being desirous of proving
their respect for the letter itself of the arrangement concluded between the two
Governments, the Cabinet of Her Britannic Majesty has authorised Sir West
Ridgeway to propose a frontier, which, starting from Dukchi, the point to which
the demarcation had already been carried out, would terminate at the Amou-
Daria, in the neighbourhood of Islim. After a detailed examination obtained
by their Commissioner on the spot, the British Cabinet had arrived at the con
clusion that Islim answered in every respect to the frontier point of KJiodja-Saleh,
of which mention is made in the correspondence relative to the arrangement.
This proposal was likewise unacceptable to th^e Imperial Cabinet of Russia;
who, looking at the question from a totally different ^point of view, maintained
that, in view of the differences of opinion which had arisen between the respec
tive Commissioners when discussing the bearing 11 of the local information, the
identity of the geographical names could alone serve as the basis for an equitable
demarcation, that the Serai Khodja-Saleh, situated in the vicinity of the Ziaret
known under the same name, should be considered as the extreme point of the
Afghan possessions on the Amou-Daria, and that the frontier should be drawn
immediately below the Serai in question.
In the opinion of the Cabinet of Her Britannic Majesty a demarcation carried
out under these conditions would be likely to entail serious inconvenience, espe-
omlly having regard to the fact that the canals used for the irrigation of the terri-
t°rv lying between Khodja-Saleh and Islim take their rise in the neighbourhood
od Kilif, a circumstance which could not fail to be the source of continual dis
putes between the populations on either side of the frontier. In order to obviate
f ese objections, the Cabinet of Her Britannic Majesty considered it preferable
up the attempt to come to an understanding as to a fresh frontier on the
® t bank of the Amou-Daria, and to authorise Sir W. Ridgeway to offer to the
penal Russian Government in exchange for the territory which they claimed
u the left bank of Amou-Daria, compensation on another part of the frontier.
13 compensation related to the territory of which the Sarik Turkomans of Penj-
of ^I^imed above had been dispossessed in consequence of the tracing
r ^ e frontier in conformity with the provisions contained in the Protocol of
n °n of the 29th August (10th September ) 1885.
^ )ro I )osa d having received the adhesion of the Imperial Russian Govern-
nsio’ ^ nov i ew and Sir West Ridgeway have agreed on the following P r0 * I.
I.
p t , 6 ^ ron frer, the description of which is contained in the Annex to the present
c ° under the letter (A) and •which is, included between khe pillars No, 1 an