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‘Memorandum respecting the frontier between Mohammerah and Turkey.’ [3v] (6/82)
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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locally recognised. In support of this attitude it
was urged:—
1. That the line of 1850 threw the sheikh's
personal residence, &c., at Failieh into Turkish
limits.
2. That whereas the centre of the fairway of
the Shatt-el-Arab was the dividing line univer
sally recognised in practice for many years past,
the line of 1850 gave the whole channel of that
river to Turkey, including two important islands
now regarded as Persian territory.'^
A map to illustrate the two lines of frontier
was forwarded and is annexed.
The reply of His Majesty's Government to these
and further representations was substantially to
the following effect:—
1. As early as 1850 Sheikh Jabir of Mo- F| rst Conference
hammerah had possessed a fort, if not a residence at Mohammerah,
1 January 28, 1850
at Pailieh, on the destruction of which, with that (Enclosure 2 in
of another fort, the commissioners insisted on the no
ground that it rendered freedom of navigation to March 30, 1850).
Eussorah uncertain.
2. His Majesty's Government had no desire to To Consul-General
disturb the status quo as locally observed, and if ^ T ° x |'^p^J^i
there were danger of the question being raised June 27, 1910.
would devote their efforts to the prevention of ^ S ir ^ rc j^
such a contingency. If, indeed, the question August 30, 1910. '
were forced upon His Majesty's Government, it To Cousul-General
would, of course, be open to them to negotiate No. 3, Political,
for the recognition of the locally accepted ^ q 0133 ^ 61 ' 15 '
boundary, while retaining that of the mediating
commission as the basis of discussion; and they
could with equal justice refuse to tolerate the
recognition of anything but the loeal status quo as
regarded the southern [i.e., Mohammerah) por
tion of the boundary, until the Turkish Govern
ment admitted the frontier zone! of the mediating
commissioners in the north.
* In reference to point 2, it may be mentioned that, by
article 2 of the Treaty of Erzeroum, Persian shit s have the
right to navigate the Shatt-el-Arab in full liberty up to the
point where the Persian frontier joins that of Turkey; this
clause at any rate secures freedom of access vifi the Shatt-el-
Arab to Mohammerah town and the River Karun.
I By a clerical error in the original despatch the word
" line" was inserted instead of "frontier zone."
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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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