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The record is made up of 1 file (64 folios). It was created in 15 Apr 1899-9 Sep 1905. 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 Docoment is the Property of His Britannic Majesty’s Governmenti
Printed for the use of the Foreign Office. September 1905.
CONFIDENTIAL.
ISo. 1.
Director of Military Operations to Foreign Office.—[Received July 29.)
(Secret.)
THE Director of Military Operations presents liis compliments to the Under
secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and begs to forward for his information the
Deport and sketches compiled by Captain E. W. S. Mahon, D.E., who was dispatched
to examine the country adjacent to the Khor Abdullah at the head of the Persian
Gulf, with a view to reporting on the places which appeared most suitable as termini
of the proposed Bagdad Bailway, in accordance with conclusion 1 of the sixty-
seventh meeting of the Committee of Imperial Defence, held in London on the
22nd March, 1905.
2. Major-General Grierson would be pleased if he could be informed whether
there is any objection to a copy of this Deport being furnished to the Intelligence
Branch of the Indian army, and should the report be printed he would be glad to
be furnished with six copies.
Winchester House, St. James’s Square, London,
July 29, 1905.
Inclosure in No. 1.
Report [with Maps) on the country adjacent to the Khor Abdullah, and places suitable as
Termini of proposed Bagdad Railway, by Captain E. W. S. Mahon, R.E. July
1905.
(Secret.)
THE terminus of the Bagdad Dailway could be made at either of the following
places :—
1. Bussorah.
2. Fao.
3. Um-Kasr.
4. Warba Island.
5. Koweit.
(a.) El-Kathama;
(b.) Bander-es-Shuwaik.
There are no insuperable difficulties to be met with in reaching any of these
places, and the cost of construction per mile (exclusive of permanent way) would be
comparatively slight.
There is thus no technical objection to any of the above places becoming the
terminus of the railway, I propose to discuss the merits of each.
Bussorah, situated up the Shatt-el-Arab, about 67 miles from the bar, is the
present distributing centre of trade for Eastern
Turkish Arabia
A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire.
, and is likely to
remain so. It is the limit of navigation for sea-going vessels.
[937] . ^ #
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The file contains correspondence, reports and memoranda relating to the Baghdad Railway, and papers relating to Britain’s relations with Persia [Iran], and to a lesser extent, the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
Papers relating to the Baghdad Railway include the following memoranda: ‘Memorandum on the Baghdad Railway, and possible British participation therein’; ‘Memoranda containing a Brief Account of the Negotiations relating to the Baghdad Railway, 1898-1905’; and ‘Report (with Maps) on the country adjacent to the Khor Abdullah, and places suitable as Termini of the proposed Baghdad Railway’ (which includes two maps: Mss Eur F111/360, f 32 and Mss Eur F111/360, f 33).
The file also includes:
- Copies of printed despatches from the Marquess of Lansdowne (Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to Sir Charles Louis des Graz, Secretary of the British Legation, Tehran, dated August 1902, reporting conversations between himself and the Shah of Persia and the Atabeg-i-Azam (also spelled Atabek-i-Azam) concerning Britain’s relations with Persia, including the increase in the Persian Customs Tariff
- Handwritten notes by George Nathaniel Curzon relating to Persia (folios 43 to 50)
- Newspaper extracts from The Times , dated January 1902 and May 1903, relating to British interests in Persia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and Russian relations with Persia (folios 54 to 63).
The file includes a copy of a letter from Sir Nicholas Roderick O’Conor, British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, to the Marquess of Lansdowne, enclosing an extract from the Moniteur Oriental of 15 August 1905, regarding the working of the recently completed section of the Baghdad Railway from Konia to Eregli and Boulgourlou, which is in French. The file also includes a copy of a letter from Joseph Naus to Sir Arthur Hardinge, HM Minister to Persia, 3 May 1903, relating to the export of cereals, which is also in French.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (64 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers from folios 1 to 42 are arranged in no apparent order, Curzon’s handwritten notes from folios 44 to 51 are enclosed in an envelope - folio 43, and the newspaper cuttings from folios 54 to 63 are enclosed in an envelope - folio 52.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 64; 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.
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- Mss Eur F111/360
- Title
- ‘Bagdad Ry’
- Pages
- 1r:8v, 9v:25v, 26v:31v, 34r:35r, 36r:43r, 44r:53v, 61r:61v, 64r:64v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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