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913. File 3443/1914 Pt 1 'German War: Turkish and German intrigues in India'
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- Abstract: The volume contains correspondence regarding the movements and activities of Pan-Islamic activists in India, Afghanistan and North Africa during the first year of the First World War. The correspondence is particularly concerned with possible German and Ottoman support for the activists in carrying out destabilising activities against British and other Allied regimes. The primary correspondents are: Foreign Office; Political Resident, Persian Gulf; Government of India; Admiralty; British Consul, Addis Ababa; British Embassy, Cairo; British Embassy, Constantinople; British Embassy, Rome; British Consulate, Smyrna; British Legation, Tehran. Much of the correspondence covers suspected anti-British agitators believed to be in or travelling to India. Other topics covered include:A reported purchase of rifles by a German company with the intention of arming Pan-Islamists in India (ff 165-175)A suggestion that Muslim rulers of Indian states should be persuaded to make pro-British statements (ff 137-140)Intelligence received from a German source that an unnamed Indian ruler has ordered a large amount of arms from Germany (ff 108-115)Reports that the German diplomat and archaeologist Max von Oppenheim is intending to stir up anti-British feeling in Iraq, Persia [Iran] and Afghanistan (ff 4-6 and 15-20).The volume contains a single folio in French (f 41), a communication from the Russian Consul in Turbat-i-Haidari [Torbat-e Heydarieh], Persia. 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.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 177; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
914. File 3443/1914 Pt 5 'Persia: German agents'
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- Abstract: The volume contains correspondence regarding the movements and activities of the Central Powers in Persia [Iran] and Afghanistan between December 1916 and May 1920. The correspondence is particularly concerned with German agents captured in Persia and imprisoned in India, and with the retrieval of German papers left behind in Herat, Afghanistan.The volume includes extracts from the diary of Walter Griesinger detailing the German mission to Afghanistan led by Oskar von Niedermayer in 1914-16. The primary correspondents are: Government of the German Empire; War Office; Directorate of Military Intelligence; British Consulate General, Meshed; Government of India.The volume contains three items in German: a list of German military personnel active in Persia in February 1916 written by the German Military Attache, Tehran (ff 55-56); and two letters from the German Government relating to Niedermayer’s mission (ff 107 and 123-124).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.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 192; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
915. File 3516/1914 Pt 11 'Persia: protection of Anglo-Persian Oil Co's fields etc'
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- Abstract: The volume concerns the situation in Persia during the First World War. The main focus is the protection of Anglo-Persian Oil Company's (APOC) oilfields and pipelines in south-western Persia.The volume covers:Defence of APOC property.Notes on oilfields in Arabistan [Khuzestan].Water supply of the oilfields.Creation of Inter-departmental Committee on the Defence of the Persian Oil Fields and its report (ff 230-235).Despatch of a small force to defend the oilfields in 1917.Acquiring British control over the oilfields.King's Regulation impeding to leave APOC without the consent of the Consul General for Fars, for the period of the war (f 110).Providing a guard for APOC's oilfields at Maidan-i-Neptun.Military training for European APOC employees.The volume’s principal correspondents are: John Nixon, General Officer Commanding, India Expeditionary Force 'D', Basrah; Charles Hardinge, Viceroy of India; Thomas William Holderness and Arthur Hirtzel, India Office; William Graham Greene, Oswyn Murray and Edmond John Warre Slade, Admiralty; Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe and Maurice de Bunsen, Foreign Office; Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for India; Anglo-Persian Oil Company; Charles Marling, British Minister at Tehran; Percy Cox, Political Resident in Persian Gulf.There are three maps within the file, 'Map A' (2 copies) on folios 264 and 271, and 'Part of River Karun' on folio 265.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 273; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-272; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
916. File 3516/1914 Pt 13 'German War: Persia; Saulet and Kawain; quarterly adjustment with Foreign Office'
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- 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.
917. File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
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- Abstract: Correspondence and other papers concerning oil exploration and applications for oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and in the frontier region between Mesopotamia and Persia [Iran] during and in the years following the First World War, when Mesopotamia was under British military occupation and administration. The papers cover: an application for an oil concession on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, made to the British Government by the Motor Petrol Association Limited, 1918; an application made to the Government by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) for an extension of their Persia oil concession to cover the ‘Persian Gulf littoral’, 1918; the development of an oilfield at Naft Khana [Nafţ Khānah] in Mesopotamia, with company expenditure paid from British military funds; discussion of the position of the Turco-Persian frontier in relation to the Naft Khana oilfields; the transfer of territory from Persia to Mesopotamia, and the formation of a new company by APOC to apply for concession rights in this territory; discussion between the British civil administration in Mesopotamia, HM Petroleum Executive, APOC, the India Office and Foreign Office, on future oil policy in Mesopotamia; the US Ambassador in London’s concern that representatives of the Standard Oil Company of New York were being forbidden to undertake geological surveying work in Mesopotamia, 1919.The file’s principal correspondents are: the Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia, Arnold Talbot Wilson; the India Office; the Foreign Office; HM Petroleum Executive.The volume includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 236; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
918. File 1323/1916 Pt 1-2 ‘Perso-Baluchistan Frontier’
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- Abstract: The volume comprises two parts. Part 1 concerns social unrest and British administration around the frontiers between British Baluchistan [Pakistan], Persia [Iran], and Afghanistan. Part 2 concerns the sale of the Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] to Kwash [Khāsh] telegraph line by the British authorities to their Persian counterparts.Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 471; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
919. File 1484/1916 ‘Persia; Quetta-Nushki Railway Extension’
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- Abstract: The volume contains correspondence, reports, memoranda and minute papers, relating to military and commercial assessments of an extension to the railway from Quetta to Nushki, British Baluchistan [present-day Pakistan], and from Nushki to Seistan [Sīstān], Persia [Iran]. The volume includes: a letter from Hugh Shakespear Barnes, Chairman of the Imperial Bank of Persia and a former government administrator in India, dated 29 January 1916 and enclosing an extract of a letter from the Political Agent at Chagai, Frank Cooke Webb Ware, on the prospects of a railway line from Nushki to the Persian frontier (ff 250-256); a memorandum on the improvement of communications between Baluchistan and the Persian frontier, prepared by Webb Ware, dated 19 February 1916 (ff 184-189); a memorandum on the Quetta to Nushki railway extension, prepared by Webb Ware, dated 6 February 1917 (ff 154-161); the Government of India’s recommendations on the route of the extension, based on their objection to it passing too close to the Afghan frontier (f 116); a note on the Nushki extension railway, prepared by the Political Agent at Chagai, Major William Gorden Hutchinson, dated September 1918, with details of the distances between stations, and watering and grazing facilities along the route (ff 70-80); copies of a note entitled ‘Trade Routes to Khurasan’ [Khorasan], prepared by Lieutenant B Temple, Vice-Consul at Meshed [Mashhad] and dated 14 June 1919 (ff 12-15, ff 41-57).The volume’s principal correspondents are: the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India; the Agent to the Governor-General and Chief Commissioner in Baluchistan, Sir John Ramsay; and the Political Agent at Chagai.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.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 258; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
920. File 3360/1916 Pt 1 'Persian correspondence (1916-17)'
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- Abstract: The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, and memoranda, comprising miscellaneous correspondence on British involvement in Persia in the period 1916-17.Topics discussed include:the activities of the German Vice-Consul, Bushire, Wilhelm Wassmuss, including reports of an attack on him (folio 312)an account of the escape of German and Austrian prisoners (folio 281)translations of letters from German prisoners transferred from Shiraz to Russia (ff 43-48) including a translation of Dr Zugmeyer's diarydiscussion of German and Russian activities in Persiatables, statistics and reports on troop numbers and weaponry, deployments, military engagements and casualtiesBritish relations with local chiefs and their dealings with the Germans and Russianstranscripts of local newspaper articles on various topics including the Russian Revolution (folio 136v)discussion of money required to pay to tribesmiscellaneous Army Department memorandageneral reports on the political and military situation in Persia including the 'Bakhtiari country' (ff 320-321)The file is mainly divided into sections on events by weekly date period. Correspondents include: the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Department; HBM Minister, Tehran (Sir Charles Marling); HBM Consul, Bundar Abbas [Bandar Abbas]; HBM Consul, Shiraz; HM Consul-General, Meshed; HM Consul for Kerman and Persian Baluchistan, (David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer); HBM Vice-Consul, Ahwaz (Captain Edward Noel); HM Consul-General, Isfahan; General Officer Commanding, Sistan Field Force; The General Staff, South Persia Rifles, Shiraz; the Inspector-General, South Persia Rifles (Brigadier-General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes); Chief of the General Staff, Simla; Chief of the Imperial General Staff, London; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire; and the Deputy Political Resident, Bushire.Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.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 400; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out
921. File 3360/1916 Pt 3 'Persian correspondence. (1918-22)'
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- Abstract: The volume consists of letters telegrams, and memoranda comprising miscellaneous correspondence from the Government of India.A number of topics are covered in the correspondence including:use of aeroplanes in South Persiaa note by General Douglas on policy in Farsthe view of the General Officer Commanding, Bushire, as to the results of complete British withdrawal from the Bushire-Shiraz roadviews on policy in the Bushire-Shiraz areaknowledge of Farman Farma concerning the Kashgai uprisingBakhtiari khans and their financesproposed dissolution of the South Persian Riflesdetails on the armed units of Persian tribesmen assembled by Wilhelm Wassmussrebellion of Mohammad Taqi KhanCorrespondents include: HBM Consul-General, Meshed; the Under-Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; HBM Consul, Sistan; HBM Minister, Tehran; Chief of the General Staff, Delhi; HBM Consul-General and Agent of the Government in India, Khorassan.The volume includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, subject headings, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 325; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The front and back covers, along with the two leading and two ending flyleaves have not been foliated.
922. File 3839/1916 Pt 2 'China:- Diplomatic and Consular expenditure. Question of increase of G. of I's contribution'
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- Abstract: The volume mostly contains correspondence and India Office Minute Papers and internal notes relating to the Government of India’s contribution towards diplomatic and consular expenditure in China. The correspondence is between the India Office and the following: the Foreign Office, the Government of India, and the Treasury.It includes correspondence regarding:The request of the Foreign Office that the contribution of the Government of India towards the cost of diplomatic and consular expenditure in China should be raised from £12,500 per annum to £20,000 per annum from 1 April 1923.The view of the Government of India that there was no longer a justification for its contribution to this expenditure, and that its contribution should be discontinued.The Treasury declining to waive the cost of diplomatic and consular representation in China, in their letter to the India Office of 30 January 1930.The Treasury agreeing in their letter to the India Office of 17 October 1932 that, from 1 April 1933, the contribution of the Government of India towards the cost of diplomatic and consular representation in China would be discontinued.The Government of India’s representation that they were entitled to a rebate from the fixed contributions made from Indian revenues towards diplomatic and consular expenditure in China and the Consulate and Vice-Consulate at Chiengmai [Chiang Mai] in Siam [Thailand] (this correspondence also refers to the Government of India’s contribution towards diplomatic and consular expenditure in Persia [Iran], Jeddah, Tengyueh [Tengchong], Basra, and Kerman, and includes a note on the origin of the Government of India’s annual contribution of £487.10.00 in respect of diplomatic and consular expenditure in Persia).The request of the Treasury that the Government of India make a contribution to consular posts at Yunnanfu [Kunming] and Chung King [Chonqing] in China.The volume also includes a folder mainly containing tables of statistics on the value of trade of India, Great Britain, Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements, Australia, and New Zealand, with China and Siam, and tables of diplomatic and consular expenditure in China and Siam.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.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 217; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
923. File 1010/1917 ‘PERSIA: CONCESSIONS – Khostaria concession; Leach concession; Toumaniantz concession’
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- Abstract: The volume contains correspondence relating to applications from foreign interests for oil concessions in Persia [Iran]. These were of interest to the British Government because of the potential threat they presented to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company’s [APOC] monopoly on oil exploration and extraction in Persia. The correspondence covers: the agreement of an oil concession between the Persian Government and the Georgian national, Akaki Khoshtaria, covering north Persia, and the concession’s subsequent abrogation; the purchase of Khoshtaria’s interests by APOC; reports of American interests in oil exploration in Persia, including the Standard Oil Company; a concession for a coal mine and light railway running around Tehran, being sought by a private banker named Tomaniantz. The volume’s principal correspondents are: the British Minister at Tehran, Charles Murray Marling; the Foreign Office; the Director of APOC, Charles Greenway.The volume contains several items written in French.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.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 226; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
924. File 390/1917 Pt 1-3 ‘Persia:- Exclusion of Undesirable Aliens.’
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- Abstract: The volume contains papers relating to the question of British authorities allowing foreign subjects, mainly German, Austrian, Swedish and Swiss subjects, to enter Persia [Iran], and the desire of the British Government to prevent German agents, and individuals suspected of having pro-German sympathies, from entering Persia.Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 243; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.