File 3852/1912 Pt 2 'Persia. Conditions in South Persia. German Documents' [‎309r] (249/280)

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xhis picker-up of Xeher&n secrets was a welcome source
of information to the British hajor u 1 Connor - the English
Consuls in these districts which are to he peacefully penetrated
,re chiefly soldiers, as is well known.
is-.o learnt from the American that the German wireless
receiving station was still working successfully, that Persian
popular sentiment, under the constant irritation of British,
violations of international law, (suoh as the ari'est of the
German consul Listemann in . >ushir) was quite openly pres sing
for an alliance with Turkey, that Kussian troops were always
ordered to advance whenever a cabinet in bad odour with Russia
or “<n 1 md attempted to t ike the reins of •->overnment, that the
British - ini star in Teheran is trying to engineer * a great row 1
to remove the Governor General of far 3 from his office: he
learnt of the chained relations between the British and Russian
Ambassadors.
Is Aorrill merely a chat ter-box? He is certainly no
genius. his stupid cynicism, the cynicism of an unscrupulous
profiteer, hieh hi often hi sore di ted the urop© m-ibaerican
rice with the people of the maet, produced the following
grotesque passage in a letter:- "I fear that this policy of
allowing the i or si ms to do as they lire, may cause them, like
all orient 1s, to interpret kindness as 00 wardice and to take
matters into their own hands to the disadvantage of i ussia and
mgland*.
The American’s lack of imagination is a guarantee
that hi- /mirrors the intrigues of feheran exactly and clearly.
The remarks which he puts in the mouths of the foreign
ambassadors, p rticul rly of . ownley, rl i.ng and , orostovets,
were doubtless made. on July 8th 1915 errill writes to the
British Consul in .--hirats, and on ay 17th If 15 the British
ixmb s sad or .... .rling writes to him : -
errill