IOR/L/PS/10/490

The volume concerns the situation in south-western Persia during the First World War. The main focus is the British occupation of Bushire.

The volume covers:

• Attack on British Consulate at Ispahan, which resulted in the wounding of the Consul and the death of one of the Sowars employed as escorts at the Consulate.
• German activity in Persia; movements of German agents.
• Turkish officers in Persia.
• Possible Russian occupation of north-western Persia.
• Attitude of Persian Government and situation at Tehran and in the rest of Persia.
• Information suggesting that maps of Persia, Afghanistan and Mesopotamia were made available by the Germans to the Turks.
• Rumoured arrest of British Consul at Shiraz.
• Appointment of Darya Begi as Governor of Gulf Ports.
• Alarm caused by advance of Russian troops.
• Evacuation of British Consul from Kermanshah.
• Arrest of British subjects from Shiraz.
• Demands of Khans in return for the release of Shiraz prisoners.

The volume’s principal correspondents are: Charles Marling, British Minister at Tehran; British Consuls at Kerman (C T Ducat), Sistan and Kain (Francis Beville Pridaux), Isfahan (G Grahame), Khorasan, Yazd, Lingeh [Bandar Lengeh] (W R Howson); Percy Cox, Political Resident in Persian Gulf; Arthur Prescott Trevor, Deputy Political Resident in Persian Gulf; Foreign Secretary to the Government of India; Thomas William Holderness and Arthur Hirtzel, India Office; War Office; Charles Hardinge, Viceroy of India; Walter Langley and Maurice de Bunsen, Foreign Office; War Office; George Buchanan, British Ambassador in Russia; Darya Begi; the American Embassy in London; the Adjutant General in India.

There is a letter in French, from the French Embassy in London; there is a translation of a newspaper article, from Jam-i-Jam.