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No. 13.
LETTER DATED THE 21st NOVEMBER 1914, EROM THE HON’BLE
SIR PEBDY CON, POLITICAL RESIDENT IN THE PERSIAN
GHLE, TO HIS EXCELLENCY SHAIKH SIR KHAZAL KHAN,
SARDAR-I-ARFA, SHAIKH OF MOHAMMERAH AND DEPEN
DENCIES.
After compliments.—With reference to the assurances conveyed to Your
Excellency in my letter No. 307, dated the 15th October 1910 ( = llth Shawwal
132b) and having regard to the further valued services and co-operation which
Your Excellency has rendered to the British Government and to British interests
in Arabistan and the Shatt-al-Arab, I am now authorised to assure Your
Excellency personally, and do by this writing, that whatever change may take
place in the form of the Government of Persia, and whether it be Royalist or
Nationalist, His Majesty’s Government will be prepared to afford you the support
necessary for obtaining a solution satisfactory both to yourself and to us in the
event of any encroachment by the Persian Government on your jurisdiction and
recognised rights or on your property in Persia. In like manner they will safeguard
you to the best of their ability against any unprovoked attack by a Foreign
Power or against any encroachment by such Power on your said jurisdiction and
recognised rights on your property in Persia. These assurances are given for
yourself and for your successors from among your male descendants, and shall
hold good so long as you and they do not fail to observe your and their
obligations towards the Persian Government provided always that the nomina
tion of your successors from amo ig your male descendants shall he subject to
confidential consultation with, and the approval of His Majesty’s Government,
and so long as you and they shall continue to be guided by the advice of His
Majesty’s Government and to maintain an attitude satisfactory to that
Government.
Vis-a-vis the Persian Government, we shall do our best to maintain Your
Excellency in your present state of local autonomy.
Further, the date gardens which you now possess on the Turkish side of the
Shatt-al-Arab shall remain in full possession of you and your heirs and immune
from taxation.
P. Z. COX, Lieut.-Col,
British Besident in the Persian Gulf and
His Britannic Majesty's Consul for Bars, etc-