File 3516/1914 Pt 13 'German War: Persia; Saulet and Kawain; quarterly adjustment with Foreign Office'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- File 3516/1914 Pt 13 'German War: Persia; Saulet and Kawain; quarterly adjustment with Foreign Office'
- Date:
- 1915/1921
- Description:
- Abstract: The volume concerns the situation in south-western Persia during the First World War. The main focus is the alliance with the tribal chiefs Soulet [Soulet-ed-Douleh, Sawlat al-Dawlah] and Kawan [Kawam-ul-Mulk, Quavvam-ul-Mulk, Qavam al-Mulk].The volume covers:Negotiations to give Soulet protection and induce him to collaborate with Kawan.Discussion with Kawan regarding financial assistance.Proposed subvention to Kawan and Soulet for keeping order in Fars, maintaining a garrison at Shiraz, and restoring order on roads.Accounts of monthly payments made to Kawan and Soulet from 1916 to 1918.Funding for an expedition against the Baharlu tribe.Claim for repayment of a moiety of the above mentioned expenditures, incurred by the Foreign Office.The volume’s principal correspondents are: Charles Marling and Herman Norman, British Ministers at Tehran; Maurice de Bunsen, Ronald William Graham, Walter Langley and Lancelot Oliphant, Foreign Office; Percy Cox, Political Resident in Persian Gulf; Arthur Prescott Trevor, Deputy Political Resident in Persian Gulf; Thomas William Holderness, John Evelyn Shuckburgh, Arthur Hirtzel, and Leonard Day Wakely, India Office; Frederick Travers O'Connor, British Consul at Shiraz; Charles Hardinge, Viceroy of India; HM Treasury; Alfred Hamilton Grant, Foreign Secretary to the Government of India.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 200; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- First World War (1914-1918)
International relations
Mesopotamian Campaign (1914-1918) - Geographic region:
- Persia
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000180_ar
81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000180_en
IOR/L/PS/10/489
IOR/L/PS/10/489