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‘Memorandum respecting the frontier between Mohammerah and Turkey.’ [17r] (33/82)
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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27
To Lord
Bloomfield,
No. 256,
July 12, 1850.
Sir Arnold
Kemball,
Memorandum,
April 2, 1875.
Colonel Shell
(Tehran), No. 35,
March 25, 1850.
really only 2^ miles.—A. P.] from the Haffar; and
thence in as straight a line as circumstances will
admit of to the town and district of Hawiza, passing
through the towers named by Dervish
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
.
The Persian pretensions are marked in blue, while
those of the Porte will be found traced in green.
In this diagram 1 have omitted the dotted lines
which mark the " supposed frontier" in the skeleton
charts in the possession of your Excellency and the
Foreign Office; and I do this to prevent confusion
which a number of traces would cause on a diagram
which by necessity is so small.
Thus we offer to Persia a free entrance to, and
security in, her port of Mohammerah, at the same time
ensuring to Turkey the navigation of the Shatt-el-
Arab by the destruction of the fort (at Feylieh)
built by Sheikh Jabir during the conferences of
Erzeroum
Colonel Williams referred too to the wish of
Dervish
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
for the retention of this fort by
the Turks, hut he and his colleague deemed its
destruction indispensable.*
In the same despatch Colonel Williams ex
pressed the view that any other line which the
Mediating Commissioners might have proposed
would have failed in producing the desired
results.
Her Majesty's Government and the Russian
Government pronounced in favour of the line of
the Mediating Commissioners.
Hie Persian Government, while disposed to
forgo its own pretensions, maintained that the
line proposed by the Mediating Commissioners
ought to be drawn at a place 4 or G miles to
the west of Failieh, near a place called Tamar
higher up the Shatt-el-Arab, the argument being
that a portion of the Chaab resided ou, and was
in actual possession of, the land up to the above
spot, if not beyond it.
Declaration, dated
January 31, 1848,
of Persian envoy
at Constantinople.
* As bearing on this point, it should be mentioned that,
Turkey having raised the question, the Persian envoy had
written in January 1848 to the British and Russian repre
sentatives at Constantinople as follows ;—
" Sa Majeste le Schah consent a ce qu'aussi longtemps que
la Turquie ne batira point de fortifications sur la rive droite
du Chatt-el-Arab, situee vis-a-vis du territoire persan, la
Perse a son tour s'abstiendra d'en construire sur la partie de
la rive gauche qui lui revient selon les stipulations du traite."
Mohammerah town was excluded from this prohibition.
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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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