"ملف W/4 العداءات في بلاد فارس: حصار تانجستان، مصادرة شاي مورد إلى تانجستان" [و‎‎٧‎٨] (٤١١/١٥٧)

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The Khadkhuda of Karri is a friond of the late Rais Ali /in^
hostile.
in reply to your questions, Dashti is a very large district,
as you know, extending from Kalat to near Kangoon, on the coast,
and right across the mountairs. Its nominal overlord is Jamal
Khan, an old man of 70 or more who has lost all his influence
over his territory and who resides at Khurmuj. Huseain Khan is
a cousin of Jamal Khan, and resides at Kaki, up the v and river.
For years he has been on bad terms with Jamal Khan, and set up
as independent: he has one or two brothers of more activity
than the rest of the Dashti Khans, " Gianasiri" is the term
usually applied to people of Dashti residing on the low lands
near the coast. Just as 'Tangisiri' is used for Tansistanis
living in the coast portion of Tangistan.
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We sent down/special envoys to him, before and during the
occupation, and he and his Kadkhudas drew up an agreement to
have no truck with Wassmuss or Tangistan, and to set about those
Dashti chiefs who do assist Tangistan against us, and who also
happen to be their own adversaries. So far thouprh he has not
done much, he seems to have had a steadying influence on Dashti:
and we have sent him ammunition,
Tahiri is south of Kangoon, and not in Dashti, It has an
Arab-Persian ruler, Shaikh Muhammad Ahmad Khalfan(?), It is a
port of some importance for the interior and used in the old
days to be quite a big place: merchants even talk of using it
to send goods to Shiraz now-a-days, Nakhl Taqi does not affect
us here.
I send you copies of telegrams exchanged with the Minister
at Tehran, from which you will see that the official view now-
a-days is that we should stop goods going to the hostile inte
rior, and Shiraz. It is no use feeding the enemy. Shiraz
merchants, now there is no British bank, donH care a rap who
runs the place, it seems, as long as they get their : ^ or
which they are hard up, and are able to thrive:(incidently if
they get their goods now when the Bank is siasatt shut they pro
bably won't pay for them), if they don't get them, they may make
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