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Telegram, No. 1617 W., dated the 8th September 1915.
From—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political
Department, Simla,
To— Major A. P. Trevor, C.I.E., Officer on Special Duty in the Persian Gulf,
Bushire.
. Your telegram, August 29th, 506 C. Comptroller, India Treasuries, is
issuing orders.
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No. 1588, dated Bushire, the 81st August (received 6th September) 1915.
From— Major A. P. Trevor, C.I.E., Officer on Special Duty (in the absence of the
Resident),
To—The Foreign Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and
Political Department, Simla.
I have the honour to forward, for the information of the Government of
No. 26-1514, dated 22nd Angu.t 1915. “P? of the marginally-noted letter
which I have addressed His Majesty’s
Minister, Tehran, on the subject of German intrigues.
Enclosure.
No. 26—1514. Bushire;
Sir, 22nd August 1915.
I have the honour to forward, for your information and for any purpose
in which you may think fit to use them, two letters in original from Saiyid
Amanullah, Deputy in the Majlis for Behbehan, to the Postmaster at Behbehan.
Translations of the above are enclosed, and also of a letter from a certain
Muhammad Reza Dirisi, a notorious Anglophobe of Bushire, who recently
fied from Bushire to Tangistan and joined Wassmuss, whom he now serves as
the so-called Bushire correspondent of the “ Jam-i-Jam ”.
These letters tend to show that the Germans are embarking on a fresh
branch of their campaign, and trying to incite the Kuhgilu tribes to attack
the friendly Khans of the maritime plain between Bundar Dilam and Bushire,
and thus further to complicate the position at Bushire.
Haji Saiyid Agha, Muin-ut-Tujjar, is the Residency news-writer at
Behbehan on a very modest salary. I propose to place some funds at his
disposal for use when necessary. He has more than once recently complained
of the present Postmaster at Behbehan, and I should be glad if you could do
something to procure the replacement of this pro-German official.
As regards the various branches of the Kuhgilu, the Residency have
rendered some service to the ruling Khan of the “ garmsir ” Boir Ahmadis,
and Mr. Chick will do what is possible in correspondence with him and two
other Boir Ahmadi Chiefs of other clans, who have been in the habit of
writing to him : similarly with Asad Khan of the Bawi, who has also written
to us in the past.
The success of German intrigues at Behbehan would however largely
depend on the attitude of the Bakhtiari Government there, which since the
hurried departure from Ram Hormuz of Sardar Jang for Ispahan over two