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Memoranda and papers by General Herbert Vaughan Cox, Military Secretary to the India Office, regarding British military strategy in Central Asia and the Middle East [157r] (313/460)
The record is made up of 1 file (223 folios). It was created in 19 Feb 1918-8 Jan 1920. 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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I gather,retain some troops at Shiraz and some at Bushire.and possibly
one or r two posts intermediate. Unless aomothing of this kind is done,
he considered that the recalcitrant Khans would once more raise their
he^ds.and that the Persians would not he able to manage them at all,
and the road would once more lapse into anarchy. He put the figure of
troops that we need keep in those parts at about 1500. This is lower
than the Govt.of India’s proposal,which was about half the nresent
force.
Z. You will not take SyKes’ opinion as to the S.P.n.at its face valu^,
but I expect ha is quite right about two things -
(a) that if we are to keep decent officers in coiiinand,you cannot put
the whole thing; feyen JundeA the F.F. It mirfit be possible to do
over the Fars Brigade
a great deal if financial control /was in our hands as well as
military control.
(b) That it is necessary to keep on a certain part of the Kerman
brigade for some time to come. According to him,they are in a
better state as regards discipline and loyalty than the Fars
people ever were.
The rest of our time was taken up by a long and rather tiresome
dissertation by Sykes on his differences with Gough,and I will not
trouble you with that. Shuckburgh is sending him round to the Foreign
Office,and is telling Lord Curzon that he is at home,and we are writing
to the D.M.I.in the same sense.
The weather here is perfectly beastly and gets worse. I am glad
to see that you are coming to some sort of decision about the Colonies
which was a very thorny problem. Put should not the constitution and
whole
powers of the League of Nations be the horse in front of the^cart ?
Yours etc.,
. fSd) H.V.COX.
Sir A.Hirtzel.K.C.B
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The file chiefly comprises typescript and some manuscript copies of letters, memoranda, notes and minutes by General Herbert Vaughan Cox. There are three letters to Cox from external correspondents, some printed memoranda and one cutting from the Morning Post .
Folios 1-2 comprise a list of the file documents, numbered 1-55, including type of document, addressee, date, and normally an indication of the subject. The fifty-five documents are numbered in blue pencil in the top right hand corner of the first page. Note that the contents list is not exhaustive and there are sometimes related documents between those marked with blue pencil. (There is duplication of some memoranda in the file; duplicates contain very minor differences).
The content comprises information, advice and opinions of General Cox to the War Cabinet, War Office and other government and military officers, mainly relating to British military strategy in Afghanistan, Persia [Iran], Trans-Caspia [Central Asia], the Caucasus, Mesopotamia [Iraq] and India, including:
- Securing British interests in Persia, Afghanistan, the Caspian Sea and British India, against Turco-German threats, prior to the November 1918 Armistice
- Fall of Baku (in modern Azerbaijan) to Turkish forces in September 1918 and the role of commanding officer Major General Lionel Charles Dunsterville
- Strategic importance of the Siestan [Sistan] railway (part of the Trans-Baluchistan railway)
- British policy regarding interests in ‘the East’ at the Paris Peace Conference 1919, notably North West Persia, Mesopotamia, the new republics west of the Caspian Sea, new Armenia, Syria and Palestine
- The Malleson Mission, led by Major General Sir Wilfrid Malleson, whose role after the Armistice was to protect North East Persia (or Trans-Caspia, modern Turkmenistan), from Bolshevik incursions and influence
- British military and diplomatic relations with Afghanistan, notably frontiers after the Armistice and following the assassination of Habibullah Khan, the Amir of Afghanistan, in February 1919
- Turbulent situation in Waziristan, October 1919 and impact on Indian Army
- Indian Army organization, command, military requirements, training and instruction, and composition
- Command structure of the British Imperial Army in the East, senior appointments, organization and military requirements.
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- 1 file (223 folios)
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The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the back of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 230; 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. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 79-229; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- Memoranda and papers by General Herbert Vaughan Cox, Military Secretary to the India Office, regarding British military strategy in Central Asia and the Middle East
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- 1r:91v, 93r:153v, 155r:157v, 158v:165v, 167v:230v
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