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‘Memorandum respecting the frontier between Mohammerah and Turkey.’ [9r] (17/82)
The record is made up of 1 file (41 folios, 5 maps). It was created in 3 Apr 1912. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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None the less there was an essential difference
between the subsequent relations of the tribe to
Turkey and Persia respectively for, while con
stantly endeavouring to establish its indepen
dence, from the moment it threw off completely
the yoke of the former Power it appears to have
become more or less subject to Persia. More
over, since this time the Chaab used the Persian
MinisteratTehran, fla &' thou S h "' as thought that this might
No. 378, perhaps be the particular consequeDce of their
August 19, i 43. cree( | as ant [ possibly not an acknowledg
ment of subjection to Persia.
Major Rawlinson's it was about this time that Sheikh Salman
January 6, 1844. removed the seat of his government to Fellahieh,
within the well-established frontier of the Persian
province of Pars. About four-fifths of the
extent of country now occupied by the Chaab
was unquestionably Persian territory, and the
liability of the tribe to pay the Persian Crown
the revenues of these lands, if that Power w r ere
in a condition to assert its rights, does not appear
ever to have been questioned. Major Kawlinson
infers, from the increased connection which was
observable between the Persian Government and
the Chaab subsequently to the foundation of
Fellahieh, that the distinction between liability
for payment of rent, as tenants of the soil, and of
a fixed tribute, as subjects, was gradually lost
sight of, and that the tribe, residing for the most
part in Persian territory, governed by a chief
whose capital was likewise in Persian territory,
and subjected almost yearly to demands for
revenue to the Persian Crown, came to be re
garded as Turkish colonists who had immigrated
to the Persian territory, and, by a continued
residence of many years, had naturalised them
selves as Persian subjects.
Major Rawlinson's The arguments of the Turkish Government
Jarmary 1 'g"iS -T^ ^ avour an uninterrupted claim to the
allegiance of the Chaab were simply these: that
Turkey had never made any formal renunciation
of her rights; that the Chaab, notwithstanding
the removal of the seat of government to
Fellahieh, continued to hold lands upon the
Haffar and the Shatt-el-Arab subject to Turkey,
and even to pay the revenue of those lands to the
Governor of Eussorah : that the fees formerlv
payable by the tribe to Turkey for other districts
were merely withheld because those districts
had become desert; and that a robe of office was
still furnished by Turkey to the Sheikh of the
[2440 c—10] E
Sir Stratford
Canning, No. 70,
April 27, 1844.
Captain Kemball
to Her Majesty's
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The memorandum concerns the border between Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] and Turkey, and was prepared by Alwyn Parker of the Foreign Office. There are a number of labels at the top of the first page: ‘Persia’, ‘Confidential’ and ‘Section 10’. The memorandum sections are as follows:
- Part I. A preface (folios 1-5), introducing the points at issue, with two maps, the first being a sketch map of the Mohammerah district, with the proposed Turkish, Persian and mediating commissioner’s lines indicated (folio 2), and a map compiled from plane table surveys by Lieutenant Arnold Talbot Wilson in 1909, with the frontier as defined by the mediating commissioners in 1850 (folio 4);
- Part II. An historical summary (folios 6-19) of British Government correspondence relating to the border dispute, with the chief focus being on correspondence exchanged during the period 1843-52, around the time of the Treaty of Erzeroum (c.1848). This part contains two copies of a map, a facsimile of a diagram of the disputed area, the original of which was enclosed by Colonel Williams in his despatch of 4 February 1850, indicating Turkish and Persian claims and the mediating commissioner’s proposal (folios 15, 19);
- Part III. Conclusion (folios 20-28), with a further map (folio 23), an exact copy of that found on folio 4.
The appendices that follow are:
- A: British assurances given to the Shaikh of Mohammerah, 1899 and 1902-10;
- B. Protocol of December 1911 (in French) for the proposal settlement of the Turco-Persian frontier question;
- C. An extract from Sir Austen Henry Layard’s Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia , published in 1887. The extract is from volume 2, pp 431-439;
- D. Rough notes made by General William Monteith when in Persia, on the frontier of Turkey and Persia, as communicated to the Foreign Office in 1843;
- E. Observations by Sir Henry Rawlinson on a Persian memorandum relative to the situation of the cities of Mohammerah and Fellahiah [Fallāḥīyah], 1844;
- F. Text of the Treaty of Erzeroum, 31 May 1847, in English and French translation;
- G. Copy of a despatch from Sir Stratford Canning, the British Ambassador to Istanbul, to Lord Palmerston, Foreign Secretary, dated 30 May 1850;
- H. Copy of a despatch from Lord Palmerston to Lord Broomfield, dated 12 July 1850.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (41 folios, 5 maps)
- Arrangement
The memorandum is arranged into three parts, labelled I, II and III, which are followed by eight lettered appendices, A-H. Historic correspondence referred to in the memorandum is referenced in the inside page margin.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the last folio; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: The booklet contains an original typed pagination sequence.
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- ‘Memorandum respecting the frontier between Mohammerah and Turkey.’
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