IOR/L/MIL/5/804

The papers in this file relate to the Eastern Persia Cordon.

The papers include: the telegram from the British Consul in Sistan on road-making (18 October 1918); The number of British officers in the Sistan and Khorasan Levy Corps (29 October 1918); the possibility of recruiting Hazara men for the Sistan Levy Corps (2 November 1918); the transfer of 100 men from the Sistan Levy Corps to the Khorasan Levy Corps (18 November 1918); the decision to halt and redeploy the six squadrons en route to Meshed [Mashhad] (8 November 1918); the original purpose of the East Persia Cordon and Turkey's 'secession' from the War (8 November 1918); the monthly report on the number of officers and men in the Khorasan Levy Corps (8 December 1918); a telegram from Sir Percy Cox on the Government of India's decision to take control of, and the Government of Persia's claim of ownership over the Sistan-Mashhad Telegraph Line (27 January 1919); the placement of all troops up to Mashhad (except those of General Wilfrid Malleson) under the command of the General Officer Commanding, 4th (Quetta) Division (23 September 1918); the Secretary of State for India's approval for the extension of the railway to Karegi Narwar (21 August 1918); the approval for the formation of an (Indian) Ford Motor Van Company in Sistan (7 June 1918); the plan for the maintenance of the extended British Cordon from Birjand to Mashhad (7 June 1918); the General Officer Commanding, Sistan, Birjand on the disposition of the Sistan Force (2 March 1918); a telegram from Sir Charles Marling on the death of a Russian merchant (20 April 1918); the departure of 1 Squadron Cavalry from Birjand and a clash with certain Baharlu 'radiers', the raids carried out by Isma’il Khan Qashqa’i, Sawlat al-Dawla and his followers in the environs of Lar, because of tensions between Sawlat and Habib Allah Khan Qavam al-Mulk Shirazi (2 March 1918); the departure of the Cossacks from Mashhad, arrival of British troops at Turbat-i Haydari, and confirmation of the existence of telephone communications as far as the latter location (1 March 1918); a telegram by Marling on the sanitary cordon between Kariz and Turbat-i Haydari (25 February 1918); the punitive measures taken against the tribesmen in Fars and the coastal districts of Persia, withdrawal of the regular garrison from Bandar ‘Abbas and its takeover by the South Persia Rifles, construction of the Bandar ‘Abbas-Kerman road, and the strength of the Sistan Levy Corps (14 February 1918); the appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel G A Dale to the temporary rank of Brigadier-General (14 January 1918); the supply of sixty Ford vans from Egypt to Bombay for service in East Persia (21 January 1918); and a 'Note Regarding Eastern Persia' by R H Headley (25 December 1917).