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IOR/L/PS/10/485
- Record Id:
- 040-000545449
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000544688
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x00017c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100049057616.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/485
- Title:
- File 3516/1914 Pt 8 'German War: Persia'
- Scope & Content:
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The volume concerns the situation in Persia during the First World War. The main focus is the plan for the British occupation of Bushire.
The volume covers:
- Measures to be taken at the Persian Gulf Ports in case of armed intervention against Persia, issued by the Admiralty to the Commander-in-Chief for East Indies.
- German activities;.
- Relations between Persia and the 'Entente Powers': appeal of Persian Government to French Government for support and withdrawal of British and Russian forces from Persia.
- Plans for occupation of Bushire.
- Plans to dispatch troops from Force 'D'.
- Relations with Haidar Khan, chief of Hayat Daoud [Ḥayāt-dāwudi] tribe.
- Censorship of Persian mails from Bushire and Bandar Abbas.
- Proposed deportation to India of Governor of Gulf Ports.
- Evacuation of British Consul and community from Shiraz.
- Attack on British Consul at Isfahan.
- Relations with Persian Government.
- Proposed ultimatum to Persian Government, rejected to protect the Anglo-Persian Oil Company pipeline.
- Restoration of Persian authority at Bushire and termination of British occupation in September 1915.
- Imperial Bank of Persia's report on the political situation in Bushire (ff 16-18).
The volume’s principal correspondents are: William Graham Greene and W F Nicholson, Admiralty; Charles Marling, British Minister at Tehran; Charles Hardinge, Viceroy of India; Thomas William Holderness and Arthur Hirtzel, India Office; Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe and Maurice de Bunsen, Foreign Office; Percy Cox, Political Resident in Persian Gulf; Arthur Prescott Trevor, Officer on Special Duty in the Persian Gulf; Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; the Persian Foreign Minister; Alfred Hamilton Grant, Foreign Secretary to the Government of India; Imperial Bank of Persia.
There are documents in French, from the French Embassy in London.
There is a map within the file, showing ' Tribal districts between Arabistan and Bushire' (folio 135).
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000544688
040-000545449 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/10 : Departmental Papers: Political and Secret Separate (or Subject) Files
IOR/L/PS/10/485 : File 3516/1914 Pt 8 'German War: Persia' - Contains:
- IOR/L/PS/10/485, f 135 : Sketch Map shewing Tribal Districts between Arabistan and Bushire
Click here to View / search full list of parts of IOR/L/PS/10/485 - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0010]/036-000544688[0487]/040-000545449
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (213 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x00017c
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1915
- End Date:
- 1915
- Date Range:
- 16 Jul 1915-5 Nov 1915
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 215; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
- Former External References:
- P 3516/1914 Pt 8
- Arrangement:
- The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)