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'History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919' [138r] (280/566)
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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MILITARY CONTROL IN SOUTH PERSIA 239
orders of H.M. Government and to consultation with the
Minister, they could not accept responsibility for its organisa
tion, distribution and handling.
Neither of the above telegrams had been repeated to Tehran,
but at the request of 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.
the one from India was
so repeated in June after Sir Charles Marling had telegraphed
on the 13th to the Foreign Office regarding a discussion he had
held with Sir P. Sykes and Colonel Hunter, who had been Sir
P. Sykes' principal staff officer before Colonel Orton s arrival.
In this telegram the British Minister urged that Sir P. Sykes
should be given much greater latitude regarding organisation,
conditions of service, appointment of officers and in financial
matters, to all of which it seemed unnecessary and inadvisable
to attempt to apply Indian ideas and regulations. Sir Percy
Sykes' scheme of organisation was being sent home by the
next bag and, if it was approved by H.M. Government, he should
be at once empowered to act in general accordance with it, pro
vided he remained within the limits of the approved budget
estimate of three million
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
. On receiving a copy of
India's telegram of the 19th May, which he gathered referred
to the question of control of the South Persia Rifles, Sir Charles
Marling sent a further wire, in which he disagreed entirely, on
political grounds, with the proposal to appoint a General with
full civil and military control in South Persia. This would
arouse Persian suspicions in regard to our intentions, and he
did not believe that such an officer would be able to rely in any
way on the South Persia Rifles. Persian feeling was not with
us, said the British Minister, and in the altered conditions due
to the Russian revolution the only possible way of making
the South Persia Rifles a success was to make it a truly Persian
force, to be used by the Persian Government and not in a way
which would make it appear an adjunct to British forces. Sir
Percy Sykes thoroughly understood this, and for this reason
Sir C. Marling trusted that there would be no question of
replacing him. Moreover, the results he had hitherto achieved,
for a long time with insufficient means, were said to reflect the
greatest credit on him and his staff. On the 20th June 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.
informed the Government of India that H.M.
Government had carefully considered the whole question in the
light of the above telegrams from Tehran and would await the
receipt of Sir P. Sykes' scheme before passing final orders.
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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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