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'Administration Reports 1925-1930' [‎18v] (41/418)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (205 folios). It was created in 1926-1931. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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somewhat like the proverbial bull in a china-shop) made Qawam the object of
Communist propaganda, while manifesting his hostility to the British sympa
thies of Qawam and others in the South.
Soviet Russian Affairs.
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There are no residents in Shiraz of Russian birth; sometimes a stray Rus
sian motor-driver is temporarily here from the north, and there are half-a-dozen
merchants of Caucasian descent.
From the autumn of 1924 Monsieur Hugo "Walden (said to feave formerly
borne the name 1 Formoff '') has been first Soviet Consul, then Consui-General for
South Persia.
Communist and propagandist of virulent type, lie has pursued a policy all
his. own, differing considerably from that of his two predecessors. On May
day 1925 and again on November 7th, the anniversary of the Bolshevist revolu
tion, he had some 2,000 and 1,000 people respectively to receptions in the garden
which he uses: and the anti-capitalist speeches at the first caused the local autho
rities to take certain precautions regarding the second, and forbid the attendance
of Persian officials.
Nearly all the higher Persian officials, one after the other, have been in
difficulties with M. Walden over the quarrels he has picked. In May and June
the General Officer Commanding withdrew the Persian military guard from the
Consular premises on account of a fancied insult to the army. The Governor-
General, Wuthuq-us-Saltaneh complained of M. Walden's propaganda and per
sonal hostility to himself: his successor, Haji Mehdi Khan Nasir, cut off all
personal relations with the Soviet Consulate from November 1925 till the
end of April 1926. The Karguzar, Commandant of Police and Direc
tors of Finance and Posts have been the subject of M. Walden's complaints
to Tehran over petty incidents, this being his method of asserting his position
and intimidating the local Persian Authorities—in short a policy of ' coups
d'epingles '. With three or four of the editors of local news-sheets however M.
Walden has been constantly busy, as well as in interviews with politicians of
the advanced type and some persons connected with the tribes of Fars, trying
to instil an anti-British feeling, for he is rabidly anti-British. In private con
versations with Persians he loses no opportunity Of displaying this hostility.
During the period of activity by local politicians to secure support for their candi
dature to the sixth Majlis he was accused by the Authorities of interference, and
trying to foment a disturbance by the disgruntled radicals. He is active in spy
work, and has attempted to tamper with the posts.
From October 20th to November 7th M. Walden was away on a Journey to
Isfahan, when he met the new Soviet Minister ; from November 29th to December
23rd he paid a visit to Bushire and Ahwaz, on his return endeavouring to have
published a libellous account of Anglo-Persian Oil Company affairs at Abadan,
which was censured by the Persian Authorities.
y Germans.
Count Von Schulenberg, the German Minister to Persia, visited Fars at the
end of March 1926. In October 1925 a Baron von und zu Bodman, with hia
family and a married associate named Mentel, arrived in Shiraz from Germany
to do business in imports from that country, but, with trade so bad, even the
German Minister thought it unlikely that they would be able to continue the
venture. Herr Wassmuss has paid three visits from the Bushire district, where
he is engaged in farming. The Germans in Shiraz and district now number
some 16. A German bootmaker has been brought out by some local merchants
to leach the craftsmen.
Miscellaneous Incidents of the period under report.
{a) The visit, from the 18th to 22nd April 1925, of Sir Percy Loraine, His
Majesty 's Minister, the first British Envoy to make the journey since Sir Arthur
Ilardinge in 1902, produced a useful effect in several ways. The provincial
anthorities showed every courtesy, and Mirza Ibrahim Khan Qawam escorted
the Minister and his party on their return as far as Persepolis, only tc be accusec
in oue Shiraz newspaper of having made a 'secret treaty' there.
{h) From April 16th to 24th a distinguished party of oil-geologists employed
by the Anglo-Persian Oil Co., Ltd., headed by Professor de Boekh and Mr. Lister

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The volume includes Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1925 (GIPS, 1926); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1926 (GIPD, 1927); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1927 (GIPD, 1928); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1928 (GIPS, 1929); [ Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1929 ] (GIPS, 1930); and Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1930 (GIPS, 1931); . The volume bears some manuscript corrections.

The Administration Reports contain separate reports, arranged in chapters, on each of the principal Agencies, Consulates, and Vice-Consulates that made up the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , and provide a wide variety of information, including review by the 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. ; details of senior British administrative personnel and foreign representatives; local government; military, naval, and air force matters; political developments; trade and economic matters; shipping; aviation; communications; notable events; medical reports; the slave trade; and meteorological details.

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1 volume (205 folios)
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The Reports are bound in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation system in use commences at 1 on the front cover and continues through to 207 on the back cover. The sequence is written in pencil, enclosed in a circle, and appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio.

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