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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [51v] (107/566)
The record is made up of 1 volume (279 folios). It was created in 1929. 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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74
OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
Turkish At the end of June Mr. Marling reported that, following an
retirement; a ff a j r Karind between Turks and Persian tribesmen, the
June 1915- Gei . man Minister had intervened with the result that Raouf
Bey’s force was to withdraw to Qasr-i-Shirin.
Situation About the same time, Lord Kitchener asked the Commander-
in India; j n .chief in India if he could not release more regular British
June 1915- battalions f rom that country. Sir Beauchamp Duff in reply
said that he could not do so. He had already had to meet
three heavy frontier raids and would have had to meet more
if it had not been for the correct attitude adopted by the Amir
of Afghanistan. The latter, however, was in a difficult position
and might find himself forced to declare against us by the arrival
in his country of the several German parties which the Persians
would not, and we could not, stop.
German Before concluding this chapter, it will make the situation
account of c f earer to give a short account (derived from German sources*)
activities Of ^ the activities of some 0 f German agents in Persia up to
emissaries ; the end of June 1915.
August 1914- In August or September 1914, the German Government,
June 1915. concurring in a suggestion by Enver
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
to send an expedition
to induce the Amir of Afghanistan to invade India, sent about
twenty-five Germans to Turkey to lend support to the enter
prise. Of these Niedermayer says that only onet knew any
thing at all about Persia, the remainder being mainly men
with African experience. On the 16th-19th September,
Niedermayer and Zugmayer, who were both to take part in the
expedition, attended a conference on the question at the Berlin
Foreign Office, at which three Indians were also present.
German money, arms and organisation and a declaration of
Jahad by Turkey, would, it was hoped, enable the Central
Powers to raise Moslem Asia against the Allies and divert much
of Great Britain's attention from Europe. Turkey was not yet
ready to join in the war, but when she did she would form an
alliance with Persia so as to afford the expedition a secure base.
Niedermayer, who had only returned from a trip to India m
the spring of 1914, put little fait h in the stories of revolutionar y
* “ Unter der Glutsonne Irans ” by Oskar von Niedermayer Heine
Diplomatenfahrt ins Verschlossene Land ” by Legations-Sekretar Lr.
von Hentig ; and diaries and other documents captured by us m Persia.
•j* Presumably Wassmuss.
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A confidential publication compiled, by arrangement with the Government of India, under the direction of the Historical Section of The Committee of Imperial Defence, by Brigadier-General FJ Moberly. The volume is part of the Official History of the Great War series produced by the British Government.
The volume begins with a preface by Moberly and is then divided into 11 (I-XI) chapters, plus appendices, as follows:
- Chapter I: Introductory
- Chapter II: August 1914 to June 1915, Enemy efforts to bring Persia into the War
- Chapter III: July to November 1915, Enemy action and Persian weakness necessitate Allied intervention
- Chapter IV: December 1915 to May 1916, Successful results of Allied operations
- Chapter V: May to December 1916, Turkish invasion of Western Persia and British measures in South and East Persia
- Chapter VI: December 1916 to August 1917, Effects of British success in Mesopotamia
- Chapter VII: September 1917 to April 1918, The failure of Persia to maintain her neutrality necessitates further British intervention
- Chapter VIII: May to July 1918, The effect in Persia of the German successes in France; and the anti-British outbreak in Fars
- Chapter IX: July to September 1918, The tide turns in favour of the Allies
- Chapter X: October to 11th November 1918, The effect of our victories
- Chapter XI: Conclusion
The volume contains fourteen maps, some of which are in a pocket in the inside back cover, as follows:
- 1. Operations at Bushire 1915 (folio 275)
- 2. Portion of Perso-Afghan frontier (folio 276)
- 3. Operations at Dilbar, 13th-15th August 1915 (folio 66)
- 4. Operations of General Dyer in Sarhad, April-August 1916 (folio 277)
- 5. Wanderings of German parties in Persia and Afghanistan (folio 278)
- 6. Affair of Dasht-i-Arjan, 25th September 1916 (folio 128)
- 7. Affair of Kafta, 5th July 1917 (folio 144)
- 8. Northern Fars (folio 177)
- 9. Action of Deh Shaikh, 25th May 1918 (folio 182)
- 10. Shiraz (folio 194)
- 11. Operations from Bushire, September 1918-January 1919 (folio 279)
- 12. Plan of East Persia L. of C. (folio 231)
- 13. Operations for relief of Firuzabad, October 1918 (folio 236)
- 14. Persia (folio 280)
The volume also includes a bibliography (folio 14).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (279 folios)
- Arrangement
At the front of the volume there is a contents page (ff 6-14), list of maps (f 14), and list of illustrations (f 14). At the back of the volume is a general index (ff 269-73). All refer to the volume's original pagination.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 281; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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