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ASIATIC TURKEY AND ARABIA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No.
[duly 17.]
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Section 3.
1913
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Mr. Marling to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received July 17.)
(No. 614.)
Sir, Constantinople, July 11, 1913.
WITH reference to my telegram No. 322 of the 7th July, I have the honour to
transmit herewith copy of the note which the Porte has addressed to the Russian
Ambassador here in reply to his Excellency’s note of the 3rd May last on the subject of
the Turco-Persian frontier.
M. de Giers informs me that, as regards the frontier north of Bane, in which
Russia is specially interested, he considers the communication as quite satisfactory.
I have not had time before the post leaves to-day to examine or offer comments on
the line of frontier as proposed by Turkey throughout the Zohab district, but I notice
that the note speaks repeatedly of the part of it south of the Kuretu river as being the
status quo frontier.
This appears from the I.D.W.O., Map No. 1522, alluded to in your telegram No. 300
of the 5th July, to be a misdescription, and it would, moreover, have the effect if it
were accepted, of excluding the Anglo-Persian Oil Company from exercising any rights
under the D’Arcy concession in considerable districts which, according to our view, are
unquestionably to be ceded by Persia to Turkey.
I propose to see the Grand Vizier to-morrow and endeavour to induce him to omit
describing the new frontier as the status quo frontier in the corresponding note which he
is to address to this embassy.
I have, &c.
CHARLES M. MARLING.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Mote communicated to Russian Ambassador at Constantinople by Sublime Porte.
LE Gouvernement Imperial ottoman avait d^ja fait connaitre son point de vue
relatif a la question de la ligne frontiere turco-persane et expnm5 son desir d arnver
par une delimitation definitive a une prompte solution de ladite question jusqu ici
Tel a ete le but des pourparlers qui avaient ete prdcedemment engages avec leu
Mahmoud Chevket Pacha, mon predecesseur, et que j’ai poursuivis avec votre Excellence.
Le resultat de ces pourparlers se trouve relate comme suit
I .—Region Ararat-Bane.
1 La note de la Sublime Porte en date du 18 (31) mars 1913, n’attnbue point
il la Perse la vallee d’Eghri-Tchai. II y est simplement dit que les Persans 41event des
pretentions sur cette vallee comme il en est de certames _ autres localitfe. A ss ,
conviendrait-il de resoudre cette question par une c “ Bm ' s 7 n p ech “^y
1’etudier sur les lieux monies, en conformitd de 1 accord verbal et font qm sest etabli a
ce suiet Comme, cependant, les villages de Nado et Nakatou se trouvent actue lement
entre les mains des Persans, le Gouvernement Imperial consent a ce quils restent du
C6t ' i Pour ce qui est de Lahidjan et de Veznd, le Gouvernement Imperial consent a
ce que la ligne frontiere passe par les monts Kandil, a la condition, toutefois, qua partir
du sommeJde Kume Bfoan la frontiere ne puisse amsi que votre Excellence la en^meme
reconnu, dfoasser ft 1’ouest les limites de la carte dressee en 1848, en anglais, a 1 folielle
d e p ar les commissaires des Puissances mediatrices.
2 5 3 4 4 0 X
3. Beituch restera a la Perse.