ملف ٣٤٤٣/١٩١٤ الجزء ٢ "الحرب الألمانية: المبعوثون الألمان إلى أفغانستان" [و‎‎٦‎٤] (٤٩٠/١٣٦)

66
Paragraph 282 (arrival of 4th August)—
Major Killander assured me that these three men are Armenians belong
ing to an anti-German association about which he had been fully informed and
instructed by his chief in Tehran.
I learn that on the 7th August a detective presented himself at the cara
vanserai where these three strangers are lodged to arrest them, but on their
declaring themselves to be Ottoman subjects withd rew saying that he would
refer to the Turkish representative.
One account represents these men to be Turks from the Caucasus.
Paragraph 289 (Governor _ General and extortions)
The particular iniquity to which His Excellency’s energies have been
directed is the levy of the military dues “ kharehvan which he is not
entitled to touch. A sum of about Ts. 40,000 is involved.
Your telegram, No. 85, Ali Muhammad—
This man, who is nominally living in the house of one of Messrs. Lynch s
Mirzas, is reported to me to pass all his time with Sardar- i-Jang.
I have, &c.,
G. Grahame.
His Excellency Sir C. Marling, C.B., C.M.G.,
&c.. Tehran.
185
Telegram P., No. 113, dated (and received) the 8th September 1915.
From—L ieutenant-Colonel C. T. Ducat, His Britannic Majesty’s Consul, Kerman,
To-The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart
ment, Simla.
There is nothing to report to-day.
186
Telegram P., No. 119 F., dated (and received) the 8th September 1915.
From— His Britannic Majesty’s Minister, Tehran,
To-The Secretary to the Government of Indie in the Fore.gn and Poht.cal Depart-
ment, Simla.
mister that the force of Coss ? < *® . • , P d , "eats that His Majesty’s
-» r .1 Colonel no,.
,htv or hundred ex-soldiers referred to m his telegiam 6a. ^
’ I presume you will, in these circumstances, cancel the instructions whie
evented these men from being engaged.
Repeated to Petrograd, Meshed and Birjand.
188
Telegram P„ No. S28 F. (Urgent), dated the 8th (received 9th) September 1915.
From His Britannic Majesty’s ^ 0 -^ “ p olltica , Depart _
To-The Secretary to the Government ot India m me r g
ment, Simla.
^ ,7 7 • * Af the re Quest of the Prime Minister I called on him this
1 ,nd respecting^Bushire came to the following agreement with him.
.. .rro— -
P «..n ooloo... -mb.