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‘Memorandum respecting the frontier between Mohammerah and Turkey.’ [12v] (24/82)
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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question had been derived from Count Medem,
Russian Minister at Tehran. Count Medem had
obtained his information from a Persian memo
randum, which Major Eawlinson had demonstrated
to be a mass of inaccuracies. This Persian memo-
randum, with comments, will be found in ap
pendix E, page 57. As showing the owner
ship of land on the left bank of the Shatt-el-
Arab, Sir Stratford Canning quoted the folloAving
additional statements of Major Rawlinson,
founded upon local enquiries and an intimate
knowledge of the country—statements which,
having an obvious bearing on the question of
the actual frontier, at the present time, are of
considerable interest:—
Above the Island of Abadan occurs the mouth of the Sir Stratford
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Haffar Canal, with about a mile of territory belonging j uly ^ 1844
to Mohammerah. Above you have for 2 miles the date No. 240,
groves of Budijee cultivated by the Chaab, but paying ^ovembei 2, 18 U.
revenue to the Bawee Arabs, then occur for 4 miles the
lands of Tamar inhabited by the Chaabees, subject to
Fellahieh, hvt paying revenue to Bussorah, and above
that point the Muntefik and other Turkish subjects
possess the entire territory for 19 miles into Bussorah.
.... the lands watered by the Shatt from Girdelan
to the sea are registered in the Bussorah records as
dependencies of that city from the earliest period to
which such documents ascend, and all the ancient
geographical notices confirm this territorial allotment.
IIer Majesty's Government, in conveying their
ultimate instructions to Sir Stratford Canning, gi r Stratford
after agreement with the Russian Government, j^ulTry 7 NO i8i5.
ccnsidered that the only fair and rational mode
of striking a correct balance between the parties
was by regarding undisturbed possession of long
standing, as the only rule by which the right of
continued possession could be equitably deter
mined. Applying this rule to Mohammerah,
" which had for eighty years past been virtually
possessed, directly or indirectly, by Persia," they
held that the town should still remain to Persia,
together with the possession of the left bank
and free navigation of the Shatt-el-Arab from
Mohammerah to the sea.
(B).—The Negotiation of the Treaty of Erzeroum
and the Conditions of Ratification. Period
1845-48.
The late Mr. Curzon, who for a short while
was associated with Colonel Williams as a British
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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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- 1r:1v, 3r:14v, 16r:18v, 20r:30v, 33r:41v
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