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File 4880/1913 Pt 2 'Turco-Persian Frontier Commission: protocol of 1913' [138r] (143/499)
The record is made up of 1 item (248 folios). It was created in 1913. 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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[This Dociment is the Property of His Britannic Majesty’s Government ]
3
PERSIA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[October 16.]
Section 2.
[44872] No. 1.
Sir Edward Grey to Mr. Marling.
(No. 345.)
Sir, Foreign Office, October 16, 1913.
I HAVE received your despatch No. 820 of the 25th ultimo, in which you comment
on the Turkish reply to the Anglo-Russian identic notes concerning the Turco-Persian
frontier.
I am in communication with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company respecting their
interests south of the Elvend River, and I enclose a copy of a letter addressed to them
on the subject.*
I shall be glad to learn whether you and your Russian colleague have yet com
pleted the draft of the final protocol, on which you reported that you were about to
engage in your telegram No. 471 of the It th September, and, if not, how soon you
anticipate that it will be ready. Owing to the delay which has occurred, I am afraid
it will now be impossible to submit the draft to preliminary discussion with Mr. Wratislaw
at this Office before his departure, as I should have desired to see done.
With regard to your reference to “an obvious slip of the pen ” concerning the
latitude mentioned in the identic notes of the 5th (18th) August, I understand that the
latitude quoted is based on the meridian of Ferro, and it was in consequence of this
that I addressed to you my telegram No. 456 of the 12th September.
As to the last two paragraphs of your despatch, I agree that the large identic map
should be used as a basis for the work of demarcation, but you should inform your
Russian colleague that some doubt exists on the part of expert authorities in this
country as to the complete accuracy of this map, and it will probably require correction
in the light of surveys on the spot. For this purpose the War Office map enclosed in
my despatch No. 331 of the 9th October may be of use.
In order to avoid all confusion, I wish to emphasise the fact that my proposal to
annex one of the two maps mentioned in my despatch No. 331 to the final protocol was
that this should be done not as a definition, but merely as an approximate illustration
of the frontier.
I am, &c.
E. GREY.
* To Mr. Greenway, October 15, 1!H3.
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Correspondence, reports and maps relating to the 1913 Turco-Persian Frontier Commission, and the production of the Protocole relative à la Délimitation turco-persane, signé à Constantinople le 4 (17) Novembre, 1913 .
The primary correspondents are: HM Consul-General at Teheran (Sir Walter Beaupre Townley); HM Consul-General at Constantinople; HM Vice-Consul at Kashr-i Shirin (E B Soane); the 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. Political Department; the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs (Said Halim); the Russian Consul-General in Baghdad (M Orlof); the Russian Ambassador to the UK (Count Von Benckendorff); HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey); and Albert Charles Wratislaw, head of the British section of the Commission.
The file opens with correspondence regarding reported Turkish military build-up in Kasr-i Shirin [Qaṣr-e Shīrīn], disturbances on the Baghdad-Kermaāshāh route, local raids by Persian and Turkish tribesmen, possible concessions to Turkey in the Zohab [Zohāb] district, and the difficulty of reaching an agreement which would be acceptable to Sunni and Shia tribes in the Zohab region. A map of the Zohab region is included at folio 305.
The bulk of the file concerns arrangements for the Frontier Commission, discussing: the push for a settlement; the composition of the British, Russian, Turkish and Persian commissions; the need to use surveying and triangulation to improve on pre-existing, inaccurate maps; the wording of the internal rules [ Règlement Intérieur ] to govern the Commission; arrangements over work to be conducted by the northern and southern sections of the Commission; and arrangements to preserve the rights of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in regions to be transferred to Turkey.
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Folios 224-29 Declaration regarding the frontier, signed by Sir Edward Grey and I Hakky Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , with four accompanying maps:
- Map No 1, Sketch Map showing Turco-Persian Frontier West and South of Hawizeh [Howeyzeh];
- Map No 2, Sketch Map of Muhammareh [Khorramshar] to indicate the Turco-Persian Boundary;
- Map No 3, Sheet No I, Map of Shatt-Al-'Arab & Bahmanshir [Rūdkhāneh-ye Bahmanshīr] including Muhammareh [Khorramshar] & 'Abbádán I [Ābādān];
- Map No 4, Sheet No II, Map of Shatt-Al-'Arab & Bahmanshir, including Muhammareh & 'Abbádán I.
Folios 68-87 Copy of the Protocole relative à la Délimitation turco-persane, signé à Constantinople le 4 (17) Novembre, 1913, plus: additional copies of the four maps detailed above; Annex (A), Règlement intérieur de la Commission de Délimitation de la Frontière turco-persane ; Annex (B) Statement by the Ottoman Government pledging to maintain, within the territories granted by Persia to Turkey, the rights and obligations granted to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Ltd by the Persian Imperial Government under the Convention of 28 May, 1901; also included are notes on the meetings of the frontier delegates at Constantinople, 4-9 November, written by the British Commissioner, Albert Charles Wratislaw.
Folio 67 is a collection header sheet, giving the subject heading and a list of correspondence references found within the part, listed by year.
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