File 3443/1914 Pt 2 'German War: German emissaries to Afghanistan' [‎27v] (61/490)

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(4) Some 4 months as;o Haji Ali saw the three Indians mentioned abo
at Shiraz, where they attended a secret conference with Wassmuss V*
Sufi and Wassmuss were shortly to proceed on a political mission i T
Afghanistan, where a number of German Military officers had already D i
lected to take over command of the Amir’s troops. ^ uo ’
(5) Mr. Wassmuss had informed him (Haji Ali) that certain Greek-
had recently arrived at Basrah, with false passports, from Shanghai, xii
had instructions from the German Consul at Shanghai to set the Arabs ^
Basrah against the British, but they had failed in tlieir mission as they i
been arrested. Wote.—These Greeks were undoubtedly (1) Caravolos^ no
in jail in Bombay, who had a Greek passport, Christos Nicolas Wond^
who had a French passport though he has been given a permit (No. 4/8o W*
dated the 7th July 1915) to^leave Bombay as a Greek suuject (this man died
at Basrah), and (3) Neofitor Pisanis, who had an Italian passport who left
Bombay with permit No. 4819 VV., dated the 8th July 1915. Pisanis was
deported from Basrah to Bombay, whence he sailed by the Italian Line C
Egypt en route to Greece—wd* permit Ao. 5560 W., dated the 20th lu-ust
1915. A separate report is being submitted in another connection on°tJ
movements of these three men. 0
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N , wassmuss mtormed llaj. VLAUllJ
firearms was on its way to India from Shanghai.
(7) Telegrams from Germany had been received in Askhabad to th.
following efiect :— 0
(a) Large Turkish forces, under German officers, had collected at
Baghdad, and it was believed in Persia that the Turks would soon re,-r,»nn»,
the territory they had lost to the British. ^ er
\ .(*) There ' vas strong anti-British feeling amongst the Indian Prisoners of.
—~y war interned in Germany. ^
(c) Seventeen thousand Indian Muhammadan soldiers had deserted to the
Turks in the Dardanelles and were lighting against their former masters.
(d) The Kaiser was very ill.
™ £1“ ™ ’"" J b,li " ,,d “ K.C. with K.,,„
(g) Had it not been for the kindnp«;<j nf Rrmrwo •
officers and supplies to pass through, the Laidanellcs ‘ ‘ w "ulf hale ‘^’lle^Zg
he Imd-StlfPS Sh e bSnS n0 and d 7 1Se
Delhi Station and was in a State ° f bpar
more sober senses he was very much exercised it i *• P? carne f°
hound Sub-Inspector Schilf to secrecy bv all tlm Jt? 11 * 5 S °, mUch and
ary. He expressed great surprise at the^tramd.na. v ? T ^ V0Cabul -
existmg in India for the search and examination ^ ot aiTa "gements
east. He said that the Germans had found it imrl tn sbl I )s 1 C0 , mi °g fro m the
lance of the Customs approaching India from ® t0 e 6 u de tbe survel1 '
parahvely safe and easv to send ship-loads of mtmv 1 but lt; was com “
IV East. He did not say that aL arms Ld ° C ° Untr - V frora the
that the Germans had discovered an easy route by wfficTtolVd them 111 ^’ bUt
the aSiliiU^ofli 4 Bll°Sce b rf V 116 0U,rage a ‘ Bushlre rosulting in
of Germans from Btoffidfd dLtri mm, ’ Wassmuss - a ccompanied by a number
Snf r , ;:° d l] dlstubuted a ™ s amongst the Persians in Bushire.
* , that k 1 n/ 1 ^ r e nt lnd%1iL P ;vro? 1 i:, t H ? /V 1 " not a true P atriot and
Uj. revelations of interest. y /_ probably induce him to make more
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