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961. File 3516/1914 Pt 12 'German War: Persia; Bakhtiari and Bawi affairs'
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- Abstract: The volume concerns the situation in Persia during the First World War. The main focus is securing cordial relations with the Bakhtiari to ensure security for British trade.The volume covers:Proposed grant of British honours to two Bakhtiari khans, Sirdar Assad and Sirdar Jang.Proposed matrimonial alliance between Sheikh of Mohammerah and Bahktiaris.Proposal to subsidize Bakhtiari Khans.Proposal to guarantee local autonomy to Bakhtiaris in event of dissolution of Persia.Attitude of Bakhtiari Khans.Letters from Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) staff regarding German intrigues among Bakhtiari and other tribes of southern Persia.Payment of a subsidy to Bakhtiari Khans.Measures for protecting APOC's property in Arabistan [Khuzestan].Proposed subsidy to the Bawi tribe.Arab raids to APOC's parties.The volume’s principal correspondents are: Walter Beaupre Townley and Charles Marling, British Ministers at Tehran; Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; George Buchanan, British Ambassador in Russia; Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe and Walter Langley, Foreign Office; J G L Ranking, British Consul at Ahwaz; Percy Cox, Political Resident in Persian Gulf; Thomas William Holderness, Lionel Abrahams and Arthur Hirtzel, India Office; Charles Hardinge, Viceroy of India; Anglo-Persian Oil Company.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 162; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
962. File 3516/1914 Pt 14 'German War: Persia; general situation'
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- Abstract: The volume concerns the situation in south-western Persia during the First World War. The main focus is the British occupation of Bushire.The volume covers:Attack on British Consulate at Ispahan, which resulted in the wounding of the Consul and the death of one of the Sowars employed as escorts at the Consulate.German activity in Persia; movements of German agents.Turkish officers in Persia.Possible Russian occupation of north-western Persia.Attitude of Persian Government and situation at Tehran and in the rest of Persia.Information suggesting that maps of Persia, Afghanistan and Mesopotamia were made available by the Germans to the Turks.Rumoured arrest of British Consul at Shiraz.Appointment of Darya Begi as Governor of Gulf Ports.Alarm caused by advance of Russian troops.Evacuation of British Consul from Kermanshah.Arrest of British subjects from Shiraz.Demands of Khans in return for the release of Shiraz prisoners.The volume’s principal correspondents are: Charles Marling, British Minister at Tehran; British Consuls at Kerman (C T Ducat), Sistan and Kain (Francis Beville Pridaux), Isfahan (G Grahame), Khorasan, Yazd, Lingeh [Bandar Lengeh] (W R Howson); Percy Cox, Political Resident in Persian Gulf; Arthur Prescott Trevor, Deputy Political Resident in Persian Gulf; Foreign Secretary to the Government of India; Thomas William Holderness and Arthur Hirtzel, India Office; War Office; Charles Hardinge, Viceroy of India; Walter Langley and Maurice de Bunsen, Foreign Office; War Office; George Buchanan, British Ambassador in Russia; Darya Begi; the American Embassy in London; the Adjutant General in India.There is a letter in French, from the French Embassy in London; there is a translation of a newspaper article, from Jam-i-Jam.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 263; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
963. File 3516/1914 Pt 16 'German War: Persia; general; question of alliance'
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- Abstract: The volume concerns the situation in Persia during the First World War. The main focus is the British-Russian attempt to gain trust from the Persian Government, to avoid alliances with the Germans.The volume covers:Discussion on Russian proposal to place the Shia holy shrines of Kerbala and Nejef in direct relations with Persia.'Report of inter-departmental Committee on the Defence of the Persian Oil Field' (ff 194-199).Alleged alliance between Germany and Persia.Measures to be taken in southern Persia in the event of war.Proposed creation of a Persian force to be jointly officered by Russian and British officers.Reported Turkish advance on Kermanshah and desired Russian advance.Co-operation between Russian forces with General Nixon.Desire of Shah to abdicate.Proposed loan of British troops to the Persian Government.Proposed appointment of Zil-es-Sultan as Governor General of Fars, with support of British Indian troops.The volume’s principal correspondents are: George Buchanan, British Ambassador in Russia; Percy Cox, Political Resident in Persian Gulf; Charles Hardinge, Viceroy of India; Charles Marling, British Minister at Tehran; Walter Langley, Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe and Maurice de Bunsen, Foreign Office; Thomas William Holderness and Arthur Hirtzel, India Office; Bertram Blakiston Cubitt, War Office.There is a letter in French, from the Russian Embassy in London.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 223; 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 3-221; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
964. File 3516/1914 Pt 17 'German War: Persia; general'
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- Abstract: The volume concerns the situation in Persia during the First World War. The main focus is the British and Russian attempt to influence the Shah and the Majlis deputies during the events that happened in November 1915.The volume covers:German funding to Swedish Gendarmerie.Terms of proposed alliance between Persia and Germany.German occupation of Yazd.Occupation of Hamadan [Hamadān, Iran].Situation at Suj-Bulak and Maragha, newspaper article from Kavkazskoe Slovo.German activity.Proposed despatch of Bakhtiari Khans to Ispahan and Kerman.Protection of British consuls.Suggested cabinet of Farman Farma (Prince Abdol-Hossein Farman Farma).Proposed Council of Regency.Russian victories in the North.Persian Government's protests against advance of Russian troops in Tehran.Relations of Darya Begi with the Khans of the hinterland.Attitude of Turkish Minister.The volume’s principal correspondents are: Esme Howard, British Ambassador in Sweden; George Buchanan, British Ambassador in Russia; Charles Marling, British Minister at Tehran; Charles Hardinge, Viceroy of India; Alfred Hamilton Grant, Foreign Secretary to the Government of India; British Consuls at Sistan and Kain (Francis Beville Pridaux), Kerman (C T Ducat), Khorasan (Thomas Wolseley Haig), Batoum (P Stevens), Shiraz (William Frederick Travers O'Connor); John Nixon, General Officer Commanding, Force 'D'; Foreign Office; Percy Cox, Political Resident in Persian Gulf; Arthur Prescott Trevor, Deputy Political Resident in Persian Gulf; Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.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 183; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
965. File 3516/1914 Pt 18 'German War: Persia; general situation - 1916'
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- Abstract: The volume concerns the situation in Persia during the First World War. The main focus is the Persian protests against violation of their country's neutrality, British and Russian responses to Persian nationalism, and their attempts to influence the Shah and the Majlis deputies during the events that happened in November 1915.The volume covers:Advance of Russian troops on Kashan and Tehran.Situation at Kermanshah between August and November 1915.Dismissal of Swedish Commandment of Gendarmerie.Persian Gendarmerie.Arrest of the British Consul at Shiraz by Le Comité National pour la protection de l'Indépendance Persane in November 1915.German and Turkish interests.United States Minister at Tehran's attitude.'Report on the seizure of the Shiraz Colony' (ff 130-132).Terms proposed by Khans for release of British prisoners at Shiraz.Situation in Bushire.British Consulate at Bunder Abbas moved to Kerman.Kerman branch of Imperial Bank of Persia reported to have been looted.Russian operations on the Caucasian and Persian fronts.Report of Vice Consul on the evacuation of Hamadan.Prisoners at Bushire and Shiraz.Intercepted letter from Wilhelm Wassmuss to Helmuth Listemann, regarding British prisoners at Bushire.Events in the provinces.Capture of Turkish Ambassador at Tehran by the Russians.The volume’s principal correspondents are: Charles Marling, British Minister at Tehran; Esme Howard, British Ambassador to Sweden; Bertie of Thame, British Ambassador to Italy; Mohtashem-es-Sultaneh, Persian Commissioner on the Turco-Persian Frontier; Alfred Hamilton Grant, Foreign Secretary to the Government of India; Percy Cox, Political Resident in Persian Gulf; Arthur Prescott Trevor, Deputy Political Resident in Persian Gulf; British Consuls at Yazd, Kerman (C T Ducat), Sistan and Kain (Francis Beville Pridaux), Batoum (P Stevens), Hamadan (N Patrick Cowan), Shiraz (William Frederick Trevors O'Connor) ; American Minister at Tehran; Arthur Hirtzel, India Office; Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Shaikh Hussein of Chahkutah; Imperial Bank of Persia.There is a document in French, an ultimatum addressed to the British Consul at Shiraz by Le Comité National pour la protection de l'Indépendance Persane. There are newspaper extracts, from Jam-e Jam', Tazineh, Tiflisky Listok,and Hayat.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 175; 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.
966. File 3516/1914 Pt 3 'German War: Persian neutrality; German money for Persia'
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- Abstract: The volume concerns German remittances to Persia, and the Foreign Office's efforts to stop and prevent these.The volume covers:Transmission of money from Amsterdam to Tehran, to be used for German propaganda during the First World War, via Imperial Bank of Persia.Various German attempts to remit money to Shiraz via French, Dutch, and British banks, for the use of the German Legation at Tehran.Correspondence intercepted and individuals suspected, at Bombay and in Persia.Black list of Persian firms with whom trading is prohibited (ff 209-211).Financial transactions between Persia and India.Black list of Persian individuals accused of trading with enemy firms (f 136).Restitution of sums confiscated after the end of the War.The volume’s principal correspondents are: Maurice de Bunsen, Foreign Office; Walter Beaupre Townley and Charles Murray Marling, British Ministers at Tehran; Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; L Robertson and John Edwin Clapham Jukes, Secretaries to the Government of Bombay; Arthur Prescott Trevor, Deputy Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Alfred Hamilton Grant and Hugh Vincent Biscoe, Secretaries to the Government of India; Arthur Hirtzel, Leonard Day Wakely, India Office; William Henry Lucas, Commissioner in Sind; Foreign Trade Department; War Trade Department; Government of India, Department of Commerce and Industry; H C B Mitchell, Custodian of Enemy Property at Bombay; George Newell, Imperial Bank of Persia Manager; the Manchester and Liverpool District Banking; Heyn, Franc & Co; Klemantaski, Bates & Co.There are some letters in French, from the French Embassy in London.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 351; 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 3-349; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
967. File 3516/1914 Pt 6 'German War: Persia; general situation May-July 1915'
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- Abstract: The volume concerns events that happened in Persia and Balochistan, during the First World War. The main focus is measures to be taken in the event of Persia entering the War against Great Britain.The volume covers:Advice of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf on measures to be taken in Balochistan, in order to form alliances with the rulers (Khans) and maintain a British Protectorate after the war.Recommendations of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf on reinforcing British troops at Bushire.Situation in Tehran, and the arrest at Bushire of the German Consul, Listemann.Offering of so-called 'bribes' to the Bakhtiari tribe and to other tribes in Arabistan, to convince them to support the British.Despatch of Russian troops in northern Persia, at Enzeli [Bandar Anzali, Iran], and Resht [Rasht, Iran].Assassination of Alexandre Kaver, Russian Vice-Consul and Manager of the Russian Bank at Isfahan.Situation at Kermanshah; withdrawal of the British Consul for Hamadan and evacuation by British and Russians.Translations of telegrams from the Persian Foreign Ministry regarding the War.German plot in Persia, led by the German Consul at Shiraz, Herr Wassmuss, with support of the Swedish gendarmerie.Protest of Persian Government against British military operations in Arabistan.Naval measures for the defence of Persian Gulf ports.Arrival of Russian troops in Isfahan, centre of German activities in Persia.Notes on the political situation in Persia by Vice-Admiral Edmond Slade.Attack on Anglo-Persian Oil Company's British employees drilling on the Island of Kishm [Qeshm, Iran].Resignation of Persian Cabinet on 3 July 1915; difficulties in the formation of a new cabinet.The volume’s principal correspondents are: Charles Hardinge, Viceroy of India; Thomas William Holderness and Arthur Hirtzel, India Office; Percy Cox, Political Resident in Persian Gulf; Walter Gordon Neale, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf; Walter Beaupre Townley and Charles Marling, British Ministers at Tehran; W MacDouall, British Consul for Kermanshah; G Grahame, British Consul-General at Isfahan, Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe, Foreign Office; Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; John Nixon, General Officer Commanding, Force 'D', Basrah; the Admiralty; Imperial Bank of Persia; Anglo-Persian Oil Company; Strick, Scott and Co.There is a newspaper cutting, from The Times.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 239; 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 3-237; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
968. File 3516/1914 Pt 7 'German War: Persia'
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- Abstract: The volume concerns the Persian Gendarmerie in southern Persia (Fars), and the pro-German feelings of the Swedish officers who were part of it.The volume covers:Accusations against Swedish officers employed by the Persian Gendarmerie in Fars, suggesting that they have been abandoning their neutrality to support German interests.Anti British attitude of Swedish officers; request for their withdrawal.Consignment of arms and ammunitions at Bushire, for the use of the Persian Gendarmerie.List of Swedish officers in service for the Persian Gendarmerie.Alleged intrigues by Major Previtz and other Swedish officers.Conditions offered to the Swedish officers of the Gendarmerie for their withdrawal from Fars.Proposed subvention for the Gendarmerie.Situation at Tehran.The volume’s principal correspondents are: Charles Hardinge, Viceroy of India; Percy Cox, Political Resident in Persian Gulf; Walter Beaupre Townley and Charles Marling, British Ministers at Tehran; the Swedish Legation in London; Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Esme Howard, British Consul at Stockholm; Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe and Maurice de Bunsen, Foreign Office; Thomas William Holderness and Arthur Hirtzel, India Office; William Frederick Travers O'Connor, British Consul at Shiraz; George Buchanan, British Ambassador in Russia.The volume contains some letters in French, from the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from Gustav Edwall and Gustav Hjalmar Previtz, Persian Gendarmerie.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 259; 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.
969. File 3516/1914 Pt 8 'German War: Persia'
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- Abstract: The volume concerns the situation in Persia during the First World War. The main focus is the plan for the British occupation of Bushire.The volume covers:Measures to be taken at the Persian Gulf Ports in case of armed intervention against Persia, issued by the Admiralty to the Commander-in-Chief for East Indies.German activities;.Relations between Persia and the 'Entente Powers': appeal of Persian Government to French Government for support and withdrawal of British and Russian forces from Persia.Plans for occupation of Bushire.Plans to dispatch troops from Force 'D'.Relations with Haidar Khan, chief of Hayat Daoud [Ḥayāt-dāwudi] tribe.Censorship of Persian mails from Bushire and Bandar Abbas.Proposed deportation to India of Governor of Gulf Ports.Evacuation of British Consul and community from Shiraz.Attack on British Consul at Isfahan.Relations with Persian Government.Proposed ultimatum to Persian Government, rejected to protect the Anglo-Persian Oil Company pipeline.Restoration of Persian authority at Bushire and termination of British occupation in September 1915.Imperial Bank of Persia's report on the political situation in Bushire (ff 16-18).The volume’s principal correspondents are: William Graham Greene and W F Nicholson, Admiralty; Charles Marling, British Minister at Tehran; Charles Hardinge, Viceroy of India; Thomas William Holderness and Arthur Hirtzel, India Office; Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe and Maurice de Bunsen, Foreign Office; Percy Cox, Political Resident in Persian Gulf; Arthur Prescott Trevor, Officer on Special Duty in the Persian Gulf; Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; the Persian Foreign Minister; Alfred Hamilton Grant, Foreign Secretary to the Government of India; Imperial Bank of Persia.There are documents in French, from the French Embassy in London.There is a map within the file, showing ' Tribal districts between Arabistan and Bushire' (folio 135).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 215; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
970. File 3516/1914 Pt 9 'German War: Persia'
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- Abstract: The volume concerns the situation in Persia during the First World War. The main focus is the British occupation of Bushire.The volume covers:Instructions regarding Bakhtiari.Movements of Wassmuss and German agents in Persia.Situation in Bushire, at Isfahan, at Urumia [Urmia, Iran], and at Tehran.Attitude of Persian Prime Minister.Arrival of Russian troops at Enzeli [Bandar-e Anzali, Iran].Murder of British Vice-Consul at Shiraz.Attacks on British Consuls at Isfahan and Kangavar, and on Consulate officials at Shiraz.Situation at Anglo-Persian Oil Company oilfields.Activities of German Vice-Consul at Sultanabad.German activity at Kermanshah.German sending gold to Persia, to outbid Anglo-Russian financial assistance.Extract of Imperial Bank of Persia's report on German occupation of Kermanshah.The volume’s principal correspondents are: Charles Marling, British Minister at Tehran; British Consuls at Meshed, Sistan and Kain, Kerman, Isfahan, Khorasan, Kermanshah; Arthur Prescott Trevor, Officer on Special Duty in the Persian Gulf; Percy Cox, Political Resident in Persian Gulf; John Nixon, General Officer Commanding, India Expeditionary Force 'D', Basrah; Charles Hardinge, Viceroy of India; Alfred Hamilton Grant, Foreign Secretary to the Government of India; Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for India; George Buchanan, British Ambassador in Russia; Imperial Bank of Persia; Shaikh Hussein of Chahkutah and Rais Ali of Dilwar [Rais Ali Delvari].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 307; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
971. File 357/1919 Pt 2 ‘RAILWAYS IN PERSIA’
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- Abstract: This volume contains papers relating to the construction of the Trans-Persian Railway. It contains material relating to:The Persian Railway Syndicate’s attempt to enlist the aid of Rabbi Joseph Saul Kornfeld, the United States Envoy to Persia [Iran], and the British Foreign Office’s subsequent unfavourable attitude towards the SyndicateThe Persian Railway Syndicate’s proposal to invite American companies for the construction of railways in PersiaThe concessions for the Mohammerah [Khorramshahr]-Khanakin [Khanaqin] and Khanakin-Tehran railwaysThe proposed railway from Khanakin to Tehran and the estimated cost for the three principal divisions of the railwayThe restrictions of the British Government on the Persian Railway Syndicate’s grant of a loan to the Persian GovernmentThe possibility of a ‘fusion of interests’ between the Persian Railway Syndicate and the Stronach Dutton System of Road Rails LimitedThe possible extension of the American Chester Group’s railway concession from Turkey into PersiaThe plans of the Prime Minister of Persia [Rezā Khān Sardār Sepah] for a railway line extending from Ahwaz [Ahvaz] to Khorramabad, Dizful [Dezful], and Sultanabad [Arak] to TehranThe endeavour of an American group to obtain a concession for a line from Mohammerah to Khorramabad and TehranThe expenditures of the Persian Railway Syndicate for the Khanakin-Tehran and the Mohamerah-Khoramabad surveysThe possibility of forming a Railway Syndicate with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and Standard Oil CompanyThe Persian Government’s decision to carry out a survey of the Mohammerah-Tehran-Bandar-i Gez [Bandar-i Gaz] railway line with the assistance of a German engineerThe Consortium industriel pour l’Orient’s proposal to build a railway connecting Meshed [Mashhad] to the Tripoli-Homs LineThe preference of the British Army Council and the Air Council for an East-West rather than a North-South railway in Persia for strategic reasonsThe exploitation of coal and iron deposits in Mazanderan [Mazandaran] for the construction of railways in Persia, and the concerns of Russia about a Trans-Persian Railway connecting the Persian Gulf to the Caspian SeaThe Act of the Persian Majlis [Parliament] for the construction of the Persian Trunk RailwayThe Persian Majlis’s Passage of the Bill for Railway Survey and ConstructionThe Persian Majlis’s passage of the Railway Construction Bill, from Mohammerah and Bandar-i Gez to TehranThe Persian Majlis’s passage of a law for constructing a railway between Khor Musa-Mohammerah-Bandar-i Gez;The Persian Majlis’s authorisation of the Minister of Public Work to employ foreign experts for the construction of the Railway;The inauguration of the Bandar-i Gaz-Tehran-Ahwaz Railway in the presence of the Shah of Persia [Rezā Shāh Pahlavi]The British concerns and preference for a British rather than an American firm to build the Southern Section of the RailwayThe passage of the Railway Survey Law by the Persian Majlis and the contract between the Persian Government and the American company Ulen, and two German companies, Philipp Holzmann and Julius Berger-Siemens Union [sic., Siemens Bauunion] to carry out a complete survey of the RailwayThe contract between the Persian Government, represented by Minister of Public Works [General Ḥabib Allāh Khān Shaybānī], and the Persian Railway Syndicate, represented by MD Carrel and MNS MavrogordatoThe contracts between the Persian Government and the Persian Railway Syndicate for the constructions of ports at Bandar-i Qays and Khor Musa (Bandar-i Shahpur) and a dam over the Karun River at AhwazThe plans for building the line from Bandar Shapur north of Ahwaz, and revival of the line from Hamadan to TehranThe construction of the railway lines from Bandar Shah and Khor Musa, the diversion of German resources to the construction of electrical and cement works, and the postponement of building a port at Khor MusaThe reservations of the British Minister in Persia [Robert Henry Clive] about the construction of the Railway as opposed to motor roads in Persia, and the subsidisation of the enterprise through the tea and sugar monopoliesThe increase in the cost of the Southern Section of the Railway and predicted opposition of the Persian GovernmentThe visit by the Shah of Persia to the Southern Section of the Railway, his unfavourable impression of the state of the railway, and the American Minister in Persia’s advice to Ulen and Company to stop working on the railway in case of difficulties with the Persian GovernmentThe cancellation of the contract between the Persian Government and the Persian Railway Syndicate over delayed payments, and the agreement between the German and Ulen groups within the Syndicate to work on the Northern and Southern sections of the Trans-Persian Railway respectivelyThe Anglo-Persian Oil Company’s concerns about the Railway providing greater access and mobility to the RussiansThe dispute between the Persian Government and the German-American syndicate for the construction of the RailwayThe negotiations between the Persian Government and the German companies Julius Berger Konsortium, Philipp Holzmann, and Siemens Bauunion for the construction of the Northern Section of the Trans-Persian RailwayThe possible takeover by the Batignolles Construction Company of the building of the Southern Section of the Trans-Persian Railway from the American and British companies Ulen and Company and Stewart and McDonnellThe Persian Government’s appointment of Suzuki Hajime from the Japanese Railway Department’s Engineering BureauThe breakdown of negotiations between the Batignolles Construction Company and the Government of Persia, and the latter’s decision to proceed with the construction of the remaining sections of the railwayThe proposals of the Batignolles Construction Company to the Government of Persia in the absence of a contractThe extension of the Southern Section of the Railway from Khor Musa to Dizful, Hamadan and Kazvin [Qazvin], and the Northern Section from Tehran to Sari and the southern coast of the Caspian Sea.The volume also includes the following sketch maps:A sketch map of the Trans-Persian Railway, from Khor Musa to Sari and the coast of the Caspian Sea, showing the ‘Line Completed’, ‘Line Surveyed’, and ‘Division between the Northern and Southern Sections’ (f 14)A sketch map of the Northern Section of the Railway, showing the routes to Pahlavi, Semnan, and Balfurush [Barfurush], with a second map of the Southern Section, showing alternative routes and termini, running either from Mohammerah or Khor Musa to Dizful and Hamadan (f 156)A sketch map showing the existing and projected railways in Persia (f 204).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 573; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
972. File 364/1913 'Persia: situation in Fars (attack on 39th Central India Horse)'
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- Abstract: The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, and reports relating to an attack by Bakhtiari tribesmen on a party of the 39th Central India Horse regiment and the killing of a British officer. The discussion in the volume relates to the implications for the British relationship with the Persian Government and options for restoring British prestige including use of military force.Included in the volume (folios 12-16) is a copy of the 'Report of an attack on a party of the 39th Central India Horse on the 11th December 1912. Resulting in the death of Captain A. B. Eckford' (Delhi, Superintendent Government Printing, Delhi, 1913).Principal correspondents include: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Percy Zachariah Cox; the Viceroy; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Edward Grey; the Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office; HM Minister to Tehran, Sir George Head Barclay, Commanding Officer, 39th King George's Own Central India Horse.The volume includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, year the subject file was opened, subject heading, and 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 commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 259; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.