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No. 77.
Sir Edward Grey to Sir G. Barclay.
(Telegraphic.) Foreign Office, January LO, 1912.
IN view of the appointment of a Financial Commission, reported in your telegram
of 8 th January, it should be possible to secure a suitable post for Mr. Lecoffre in
Southern Persia. You should take the necessary steps for this purpose.
No. 78.
Sir G. Barclay to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received January 11 .)
(Telegraphic.) Tehran. January 11 , 1912.
SHUSTER left this morning.
No. 79.
Sir G. Barclay to Sir Edward Grey.—{Received January 11.)
(Telegraphic.) Tehran, January 11 , 1912.
REFER to your telegram of 10th January.
I should prefer to interview Lecoffre before asking Mornard (who would be the
proper person to apply to) to find him a post. Lecoffre is believed in some quarters to
have taken part in fomenting the disturbances which recently took place at Tabreez,
and if he is really very pro-nationalist it might not be advisable to appoint him to a
place like Mohammerah or Shiraz. He has not yet arrived at Tehran from Tabreez.
No. 80.
Consul Shipley to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received January 11.)
(Telegraphic.) Tabreez, January 11, 1912.
RUSSIAN consul informs me that Russian casualties in recent disturbances here
were as follows : one officer and thirty-nine men killed ; five officers and forty-five men
wounded. The bodies of only seventeen of the killed have been brought in. The
wounds received were chiefly from dumdum bullets.
I have seen photographs of the bodies, which show that they must have received
terrible mishandling, the heads especially. The Persians themselves have been
remarking on the fact that mutilation has been practised, and one of them even told
my dragoman that the corpse of a Russian soldier had been decapitated close to his
house.
The Russians declare that four of their men were tortured before their death
during the night of 21st December, while Persian music was being played, but for
this the only evidence so far appears to consist in the appearance of the four corpses
when they were recovered.
It seems that only the Persians actually engaged in the fighting were responsible
for these mutilations, not the population in general.
No. 81.
Sir Edward Grey to Lord Kilmarnock.
(Telegraphic.) Foreign Office, January 11, 1912.
YOUR telegram of 9th January : Swedish officers in Persia.
Your action is approved.