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‘Memorandum respecting the frontier between Mohammerah and Turkey.’ [6v] (12/82)
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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me was that the claims of Turkey to the left bank
of the Shatt-el-Arab and to Mohammerah were well
founded
I consequently proposed in my scheme, as a fair
compromise, that the new frontier-line should be drawn
through the desert country to the west of llawizah, at
some distance from the Shatt-el-Arab, across the Haffar,
and midway down the delta to the sea
My sue -e -estion, approved and adopted by Sir [ Note .—This extract, written over forty years
' W T ^ AVkPrrlppn later, conveys a mistaken impression of the corre-
Btratford Canning, was submitted by Lord Aberdeen spondence ^ In regard to Mohammerah, Sir S.
to the Russian Government, which declined to accede Canning's recommendations ivej-e approved, with
t o it, and not only uphold the claim, of Pcraia to
Mohammerah and the left bank of the Shatt-el-Aiab t rfta ty. On other points of the frontier, e.g.,
Irom the Haffar to the sea, but insisted upon the cession Zohab, his Excellency's views did not so fully
to her of territory on its east bank (i .e., left bank), P 16 ^ 1 '- A - 1 •]
which she had not even claimed
Lord Aberdeen, who was desirous of deferring to
Russia, accepted her views and instructed Sir Stratford
Canning to recommend them to the Porte. He sent for
me after the arrival of Lord Aberdeen s despatch to this
effect Without saying a word he handed me
the despatch. I read it, and remarked that I was
deeply grieved to find that Lord Aberdeen had come
to a decision which, in my opinion, was not consistent
with justice and right, and was not in the interests of
England. He requested me to draw up an answer to
Lord Aberdeen's despatch pointing out the objections
to the arrangement proposed by Russia, the injustice
that would be done to the Porte, and the discredit that
would fall upon England as a mediator it she showed
so flagrant a spirit of partiality to Pei'sia.
I wrote the draft of a despatch in this sense, which
was adopted by Sir Stratford Canning. But it failed
to produce the desired effect, and nothing remained to
him but to carry out the instructions he had received
from Lord Aberdeen
The precis of official correspondence which now
follows falls into three sub-divisions :—
(A,.)—T/ie initial investigations and the earlier
Conferences at Erzeroum. Period 1843-14.
B.)—TAe negotiation of the Treaty of Erzeroum
and the conditions of ratification. Period
1815-48.
(C.) —T/?(? attempt of the mediating Powers to
demarcate the frontier in accordance with the
treaty. Period 1850—52.
(A.) The Initial Investigations and the earlier
Conferences at Erzeroum. Period 1843-44.
Apart from the records of what passed at the
conferences at Erzeroum, the leading documents
for this period are a detailed and learned historical
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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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