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No. C.-5, dated Meshed, the 2nd February (received 12th March) 1917 (Confidential).
From Lieutenant-Colonel W. G. Grey, I.A , His Britannic Majesty's Consul-
General and Agent to the Government of India in Khorasan,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart
ment. r
I have the honour to refer to my telegram to your address No. C.-ll,
dated 30th ultimo, and to submit the following documents in original which
were found upon Ahmad Barbari, lately servant of Wagner at Herat, who was
arrested by our Agent at Karez on 24th ultimo :—
( 1 ) An Afghan passport.
(2) A cypher document.
2 . In paragraph 22 of my Diary No. 1 for the week ending 6 th ultimo it
was reported that this man had fallen out with his fellow servants and was
trying to obtain a passport to leave Herat for Persia. In this he ultimately
succeeded, and Wagner apparently seized the opportunity to send a letter to a
German friend at the American Legation in Tehran whom he described to
Ahmad as wearing spectacles and having no beard. Ahmad was given by
the German £1 with which to pay his expenses to Tehran, a sum hardly
sufficient for the purpose in these times, and was told that he would receive
an ample reward upon delivering the letter. He is still under observation
here, but has up to the present made no statement of sufficient interest to
report beyond the above particulars, and it is doubtful whether there is
anything more to be got out of him that we do not know already.
3. Copies of this letter and enclosure 2 are being forwarded to His
Majesty’s Minister in Tehran, and at the request of the Russian Consul-General
and Colonel Scauratt, Staff Officer of the Russian troops in Meshed, I have
also supplied them with copies of the cypher message.
[Hevised translation of enclosure
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Ao. 1 to Serial No. 151 in Persia
Part IX.]
Series,
Translation of typed copy of letter from von Bethmann Holhveg to His Honour Kumar
Mahendra Pertab.
Berlin;
17th April 1915.
I have the honour to forward enclosed to Your Honour a letter from
His Majesty the Emperor and King to His Majesty the Amir of Afghanistan
as well as letters from the Chancellor to the Amir Habibulla, the Maharaja of
Nepal as well as to the Indian Princes indicated in the accompanying list,
together with translations in court language of the country concerned. I beg
Your Honour to hand the letter for His Majesty the Amir to him personally
and the remainder of the letters to be delivered to their destinations in a
suitable manner.
Your Honour will have convinced yourself during your stay in Germany
of the sympathy which Germany has for the Indian cause. I hope that
Your Honour will picture to the Amir of Afghanistan and the princes and
people of India the impression you have gained here. I leave it confidently
to Your Honour after your arrival in Kabul to take all measures to further
the Indian cause, in which Your Honour may rely on the powerful support
of the Imperial Government.
yon Bethmann Hollweg.
His Honour
The Kumar Mahendra Pertab of Hathras and Mursan.