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‘Memorandum respecting the frontier between Mohammerah and Turkey.’ [27v] (54/82)
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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to the west, so as to extend to the boundary as
locally observed, and so as to include the palace,
court-house, and prison, of the Sheikh of
Mohamraerah.
I would suggest that we should lay before the
Russian Government these three conclusions
supported by the necessary arguments; that
we should propose that the two Ambassadors
at Constantinople should be instructed to
advise the Persian Delegates on the Turco
Persian Commission now sitting to continue to
press the Turkish delegates to reveal the extent
of the Turkish claims near Mohammerah; that
similar advice should be given by Great Britain
and Russia at Tehran; and that Sir G. Lowther
should be instructed to intimate in a friendly
and informal manner to the Turkish Minister
for Foreign Affairs that Ilis Majesty's Govern
ment, as his Excellency is aware, attach great
importance to the maintenance of the status quo
at Mohammerah, as locally observed, and that
they feel persuaded that the Ottoman Govern
ment, who have shown such a conciliatory
spirit in the negotiations now being opened in
London, will take their wishes into favourable
consideration.
I would submit that this mode of procedure
is, for the time being, preferable to a flat
declaration that His Majesty's Government could
not abide bv an award of the IIai?ue Tribunal if
it tended to upset the status quo at Mohammerah ;
and the course of action suggested associates
Russia with His Majesty's Government in so far
as advice to Persia is concerned, while it avoids
the risk of offence which might be caused to
Turkey by joint representations from Great
Britain and Russia, and the consequent
probability of failure.
There is another important question relating
to Mohammerah which is not unlikely to be
discussed in the course of the present negotiations
at Constantinople, and that is the position of the
Sheikh of Mohammerah in regard to the exercise
of jurisdiction over members of the Chaab tribe
resident in territory on the right bank of the
river, which is admittedly Turkish; but this
matter is relatively less urgent, and is therefore
reserved for a separate memorandum.
There is also a point which I have not brought
out earlier. After leaving the Shatt-el-Arab, the
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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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