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Consecrate (Consequently ?) he has telegraphed to Tehran via Yezd and
Kerman, but has not yet received any orders except the wire received through
Darya 33egi. Gendarmerie have established a censorship on telegrams at
Shiraz.
He is trying to get Soulet to co-operate, and asks that specific instructions
will he sent.
Tone of the letter is very friendly and expresses great regret that incident
should have happened.
I beg to suggest that if Persian Government will send definite orders at
once to Kawa.a and Soulet I can get telegrams forwarded by special messenger.
I could send Kawam some ammunition also via Lingah, as previously arranged,
if thought advisable. r J °
I venture to suggest that telegram should direct co-operation in suppression
of Pars Gendarmerie, which might at the same time be declared disbanded
unless this has already been done. As the Committee is now heading all
telegrams “ In the name of His Imperial Majesty the Shah ” it seems advisable
, that His Majesty should intervene.
Sent to Tehran; repeated to India, Pasrah.
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Telegram P., No. 169-D.S., dated the 22nd December 1915.
From—His Excellency the Viceroy (Foreign and Political Department), Delhi,
To—His Majesty's Secretary of State for India, London.
Afghanistan. On 11th December Amir accorded British Agent, Kabul, an
interview at which, with locked doors, His Majesty spoke very frankly. He
had, he said, received King-Emperor’s letter, as also my letter forwarding it
and was replying as regards part of it at once, but that question of the inc?ease
m his subsidy was still under his consideration and he would shortly reply
about this. He was considering all the difficulties he had had to face, greatly
disappointed at the amount of the increase, but he concluded by sayin^ tha*t
he was not a double dealer apd that the British Agent might assure Government
in plain and repeated terms that he was the true friend of the British Govern
ment and, so long as the internal interests of Afghanistan were not exposed to
danger, intended to maintain neutrality to the last.
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Telegram R., No. 764.-C., dated (and received) the 22nd December 1915,
From—The Deputy Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Bushire,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart
ment, Delhi r
Following from His Majesty’s Representative, Tehran, telegram No 391*
Begins. Your telegram No. 751-C. I approve. Ends.
No reply has been received from Khans but I gather from subsequent
letters that His Majesty s Consul, Shiraz, is better and that Doctor Azzopartv’s
report was unnecessarily alarming. ^
Sent to Tehran; repeated to Foreign and Basrah.
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Telegram P., No. 554-F, dated the 22nd (received 23rd) December 1915.
Frcm—His Britannic Majesty's Minister, Tehran,
To—The S^retaryto the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart-
(Repeated to Petrograd and India.)
Please sec your telegram No. S47. Russian Minister and I feel
doubt as to what line in regard to Persian Government we should take.
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