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‘Memorandum respecting the frontier between Mohammerah and Turkey.’ [30v] (60/82)
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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Consul-General Cox to the Sheikh of Mohammerah,
(After compliments.) Mohammerah, October 15, liMO.
I have the honour to intimate personally and in writing that I am authorised to inform
your Excellency that whatever change may take place in the form of the Government of Persia,
and whether it be Royalist or Nationalist, 1 lis Majesty's Government will be prepared to afford
you the support necessary for obtaining a satisfactory solution in the event of any encroachment
by the Persian Government on your jurisdiction and recognised rights or on your property in
Persia. In like manner they will safeguard you to the best of their ability against an unprovoked
attack by a foreign Power or against any encroachment by such Power on your said jurisdiction
and recognised rights or on your property in Persia. These assurances are given for yourself, and
are intended to extend to your male descendants so long as you and they shall not have failed to
observe your obligations towards the Central Government, and shall continue to he accep/ahle to
your tribesmen, to be guided by the advice of His Majesty's Government, and to maintain an
attitude satisfactory to them.
P. Z. COX, Lieutenant-Colonel, British Resident
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
Consul-General Cox to the Sheikh of Mohammerah.
(After greeting.)
Your Excellency, Mohammeroh, October 15, 1910.
With reference to my official letter of to-day's date, I attach a duplicate of that letter and
the assurances contained therein, with this exception, viz., that the words "to be acceptable to
your tribesmen " are in the attached document omitted.
This is sent you in response to your Excellency's request for the assurances in a form
which you could, if necessary, show to the headmen of the tribes under your control. May you
be preserved.
Your sincere friend,
P. Z. Cox.
Consul-General Cox to the Sheikh of Mohammerah.
''After greeting.) Mohammerah, October 15, 1910.
I have the honour to intimate personally and in writing that 1 am authorised to inform your
Excellency that whatever change may take place in the form of the Government of Persia, and
whether it be Royalist or Nationalist, His Majesty's Government will be prepared to afford you
the support necessary for obtaining a satisfactory solution in the event of any encroachment
by the Persian Government on your jurisdiction and recognised rights or on your property in
Persia. In like manner they will safeguard you to the best ot their ability against an unpro
voked attack by a foreign Power or against any encroachment by such Power on your said
jurisdiction and recognised rights or on your property in Persia. These assurances are given
for yourself, and are intended to extend to your male descendants so long as you and they
shall not have failed to observe your obligations towards the Central Government, and shall
continue to be guided by the advice of His Majesty's Government, and to maintain an attitude
satisfactory to them.
P. Z. Cox, Lieutenant-Colonel, British Resident
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
EDWARD PARKES.
Foreign Office, April 1912.
L
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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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