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‘Memorandum respecting the frontier between Mohammerah and Turkey.’ [10v] (20/82)
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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tion ; he now asserted his independence of Thamir,
and threatened, if interfered with, to call in the
protection of the Persians. It was from the year
1837 that Major Rawlinson dated the direct
political connection between the town of Moham-
merah and Persia. In the next few years Persia
seems to have intervened more actively in the
affairs of Mohammerah, though she did not
disturb Sheikh Haji Jabir; at Fellahieh, on the
other hand, she had deposed Sheikh Thamir,
and installed his nephew Pariss in his place.
Such, in general outline, was the result of
Major Pawlinson's investigations. He recom
mended, and his advice was in the main endorsed
by Sir Stratford Canning, that the frontier should
be defined as shown on the accompanying sketch
map ; it will be observed that the suggested line
passes lengthways through the centre of the island
of El Khizr or Abadan, then, leaving the town
of Mohammerah to Persia, it runs parallel to
the Shatt-el-Arab at some distance inland
from the bank. In recommending this line.
Major Rawlinson estimated that the only valuable
lands which Turkey would lose would be those
along both banks of the Haffar Canal, where
the double town of Mohammerah was situated ;
but to these lands, he added, she could not
advance any valid geographical claim, and lor
many years they had been practically lost to
her.
It is important to recall once more that at this
time the boats bound for Mohammerah used
largely the Bamishere Channel, now no longer
navigable; and doubtless this was not without
influence upon Major Rawlinson's conclusions.
The only evidence produced at the Conference Evidence at
at Erzeroum relative to the allegiance ot the conference
Chaab tribe is to be found in the examination of (1843).
Sheikh Thamir, the late chief at Pellahieh, who Report of
-i m i m . • ninth conference,
had been summoned to attend by lurkey. Ihis D ec e m ber 19,
person declared that the Chaab were actually, 1 843.
and always had been, under the dominion of the Decemter
Sultan; but Sir Stratford Canning reported that 1843.
his evidence should be received with caution, as
he had been ejected from his chiefship by the
Persian Government, and was seeking to re- Report of
establish himself through the assistance of the ^c^ber^T 1 ^'
Porte. Certain natives of Bussorah had indeed 1843.
given evidence to the same effect, and a certificate U llliam8 '
in a similar sense, and signed by thirty-five December 30, 1843
inhabitants of Koweit, was also produced; but ( Enclosure 2 )-
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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.
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- 1 file (41 folios, 5 maps)
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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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