ملف ٣٥١٦\١٩١٤ الجزء ١٨ "الحرب الألمانية: بلاد فارس؛ الوضع العام - ١٩١٦" [ظ‎‎٢‎٢] (٣٦٨/٥٣)

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fnr 1 Comman<ll “S Troops informed mo same day that he had only harloy
for cavaly horses up to January 17th owing to threatened failure of Indian
contractor. Our 300 mules and 150 horses of Baluch Levies are starving Ae-
of Hifiri y parties of 20 soldiers under British officer were sent out to villages
Haidar Ah and Purdil Khan on evening of January 5th to search for "ram
stores and mount guard on them. All barley found will be brou-ht into camp
Scks into'tow Pr0 7 sest0 ^mmon in 3 or 4 days’ time all other holders of
I a +- d S 1768 , 110 ! 368 ta at arrangement will he effected in this way.
am entirely sceptical unless great pressure is exerted from Tehran. ^
Governor rf 6 Birj'anffi SUbjeCt baVe ^ ^ re ° eived by Deputy Go ' reraor fr 0“
peetively O^lOOand sJoXrtl ^ UP t0 • Iu ’ le 30tllare ^
All grain for Birjand as well as for Sistan has to be collected in Sistan
down^toVistan personally.‘h 686 St ° CkSl SUSS6St ShaUkat be immediatel y o^ed
GovernLnt to^rnor.° U Ca “ ^ m6 COpieS ° f ‘ eleSramS isSUed by reraiaa
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Telegram P., No. 12-58, dated the 9th (received 10th) January 1916.
From—The Deputy Political Resident in the Persian Gulf
T °~ The D“Lt to De 1 ; e h i . (>0Ternment ° f India ^ ‘ he F ° rei »“ 1>0lit - 1
(Sent to Tehran, repeated Foreign and Basrah.)
FTease see my telegram No. 772-0.
TolntJ 116 C0Uri . er 7^° We ^ with letter returned and reported its delivery
KnwW 1 r ® cc . lve 1 u ,rotn . Coi ; sul at Bunder Abbas reports that Nizam-ul-MulV
ask nc l S S‘ m ' aW v amVed y® s 1 ! erda y at Bullder Al3 bas with a note of Kawani
£500 non T’ tail0 l, tr01 f U ,T- • 1Ie asks for 4 aiaxims with instructors
£of)0,00() m cash, and sufficient ammunition, 600,000 mauser presumably
7 m-m, 100,000 Mar ini Henry, kOO.OOO for gendarmerie pattern rifles
(8 m-m mauser). Also some dynamite and men to use it. Kawam is
suie he can defeat gendarmerie with this assistance. It is not clear what
the dynamite is for. It will be seen Kawam wants a good deal I have
^e epaphed to Bunder Abbas to verify the £50,000. I think that to start
t o0 000 tomans is enough. Available "here are the following arms and
fal^hn t 0 ^nff ° nsms l 0 A erS i an G . overnment : (1) -303 about 150,000 rounds.
1 ( u 1 lnauser i 05 rifles with some 90,000 rounds ammunition (3)
10 odo dn m ,? aU v? r a “ m “ nltl °n about 10,000 rounds. There are also about
Government.^ MartlM Henry aminumtio11 does not belong to Persian
_ Items (2) and (3) might be useful to Kawam. Item (1) is used bv Gover
nor s iiflemen and little could be spared. Possibly at Basrah there are some
r rpirrv 1 10n aY f a f b l e SIr P ; GoX " ou5d information on this
CtinTdm P uniWom n W ° Uld PCSSib,y be will “= to ™pply some
Telegram P., No. 5, dated the 9th (received 10th) January 1916.
From—His Britannic Majesty’s Minister, Tehran,
To-The SBcretary^tothe Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart-
It is reported by Persian Government that Germans are recruiting a +
Kerman and have collected 700 to 800 men there. They are L,d to to
^spa lan. " o German officers Botticher and Mask were captured by llussians