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File 1421/1908 Pt 2 'Persia: oil; Ahwaz oil guard' [31r] (61/482)
The record is made up of 1 item (239 folios). It was created in Oct 1907-Nov 1910. It was written in English. 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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ENCLOSURES.
Enclosure No. 1.
Foreign Office to
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.
.
No. 35,934. Foreign Office,
Sir, 5th October 1909.
With reference to your letter of the 19th August, respecting
the proposal to retain for Lieutenant Wilson’s use in his work on the
Kherka Irrigation Scheme a part of the oil guard hitherto in the
employ of the Anglo-Persion Oil Company, I am directed by the
Secretary of State for Foreign xkffairs to transmit to yon, for Viscount
Morley’s information, copy of a telegram from His Majesty’s Minister at
Teheran, stating that the cost of the proposed escort for Lieutenant
Wilson would amount to 201. per month for four or five months.
I am to state that, as soon as Secretary Sir Edw r ard Grey learns that
Lord Morley has submitted to the Council of India the proposal that a
moiety of the expense of retaining a portion of the oil guard should he
borne by Indian revenues, he will request the Lords Commissioners of the
Treasury to sanction the charge of the other moiety on Imperial funds.
I am also to transmit to you copy of a further telegram from
Sir G. Barclay, reporting that the oil guard left Mohammerah on the 25th
ultimo. As Sir G. Barclay was instructed on the 23rd August to retain
the number of guard required, and only to send hack the remainder,
Sir Edward Grey assumes that this telegram refers only to the portion of
the guard no longer required at Mohammerah.
I am, &c.,
The Under Secretary of State F. A. Campbell.
for India.
Annex 1.
Telegram from Sir G. Barclay to Sir Edward Grey.
(No. 741.) Tehran,
27th September 1909.
P.—Indian oil guard.
Please see your telegrams Nos. 432 and 458 of the 23rd August and
the 9th September respectively, and my telegram No. 720 of the
8th September.
Twenty
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
a month for four to five months would be required
for the four men of the escort for Wilson’s tour.
When I learn that the remainder of the guard leave I will report
to you.
I venture to suggest that you might await the detailed proposals as
to the Mohammerah consulate, which will be sent to the
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.
by
the Government of India, before deciding the question of ^retention of
the escort after the conclusion of Mr. Wilson’s work on the Kherkha.
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Part 2 consists of correspondence relating to the deployment of a consular guard at Ahwaz to protect British subjects working in the region. The correspondence is between the Government of India, Foreign Office, 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. , and representatives of Concessions Syndicate Ltd (later Anglo-Persian Oil Company). Included as enclosures are letters, telegrams, and memoranda from the following:
- British Minister to Persia;
- George B Reynolds, geologist for Concessions Syndicate Ltd;
- Lieutenant-Colonel David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer, Vice-Consul in Arabistan, at Ahwaz;
- Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary;
- British Treasury;
- Percy Cox, Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , at Bushire;
- William Knox D'Arcy, petroleum entrepreneur.
The papers cover several matters, including:
- the size of the guard and length of the period of deployment;
- the question of who will bear the cost of the guard and its accommodation;
- pay and allowances of staff;
- relations between the Bakhtiari tribes and the Syndicate;
- an increase to the guard at Isfahan;
- the proposal to replace Government of India guards with local Bakhtiari men.
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