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‘Memorandum respecting the frontier between Mohammerah and Turkey.’ [25r] (49/82)
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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39
local authorities on both sides for a similar period
of time. 45
When the line proposed in 1850 by the
Mediating Commissioners in the Mohammerah
district was rejected by the Porte, it was with the
utmost difficulty that the Ottoman and Persian
Governments were induced to accept, for the
nonce, the actual status quo, —as to the definition
of which there was every conceivable disagree
ment,—and allow the Commission to proceed
with its work further north. This arrangement
was, however, ultimately accepted in 1851 in
writing, but with the most explicit reservations
that it was provisional, and merely pending a
final settlement.
As is well known, no final settlement has ever
been reached ; but in 1869 an incident arose in
regard to another portion of the frontier, and a
formal Convention was concluded between Turkey
and Persia, in that year, providing that:—
Le reglement du statu quo, qui a ^te adopte de part
6t d'autre lors de I'enquete des Commissaires des quatre
Gouvernements au sujet des lieux litigieux des frontieres,
doit etre maintenu tel quel jusqu'a une delimitation
definitive . . . (Article 2.)
.... L'administration ne sera point pr^value comme
de droit et lesdits lieux litigieux ne seraient aucune-
ment par cela consid^res des proprietis acquises.
(Article 3.)
Aucune construction a I'avenir ne sera ^levee sous
aucune denomination que ce soit dans les lieux
en litige qui se trouvent I'administration de
Tune et de I'autre partie; et toutes celles qui out eu
lieu jusqu'a ce jour, aussi que toutes les marques et
indices de limite, ne seront k la delimitation definitive
aucunement consid^rees comme preuves de droit et de
propri^te acquises (sic). (Article 4.)
Cette convention provisoire sera observ^e scrupuleuse-
ment jusqu'k la delimitation definitive des fronti&res,
sans annuler neanmoins toutes les reclamations et
protestations echang^es de part et d'autre au sujet
des lieux en question et des constructions y ^levees,
qui toutes gardent leur effet et vigueur. (Article 7.)
In the face of these explicit and formal reserva
tions, it seems doubtful whether the Hague
* It is said, on the authority of a confidential agent of the
Sheikh of Mohammerah, that the boundary as locally re
cognised was " fixed" in 1880 by representatives of the
Bussorah and Mohammerah authorities, but this statement
lacks definite confirmation; the agreement may only have
been verbal, and in any case it appears to have been one
merely between the local authorities. ( Vide Lieutenant
Wilson's precis on Arabistan, dated March 1911. p. 51.
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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)
- 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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