File 1377/1905 Pt 1 'Perso-Baluch Frontier: Frontier Demarcation' [‎136r] (43/188)

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Sir A. Hardinge to the Marquess ofLansdowne.-{,Beceiv C d June 12.| 3
(No. 112.) Tehran, May 21, 1905.
My Lor i}’ , honour t0 re p 0r t, with reference to my despatch No/l02 of the 15th
• ,0,1 ,,t the Mushir-ed-Dowleh has been informed, m reply to a telegraphic inquiry
mstant, that the ™ ^eral of Customs in Seistan, that Padaha is, according to
addressed to the Director uenei ffi Excellency was a t first a good deal
the Holdich Agreement, in P e t ls ^ n pv “O ar tc Jwo days ago at'the Turkish Embassy
disturbed by this discovMy ^ hfull ® f mp ii e d that I had tricked him, saying that
he took me aside and rathex rep ^ ^ o{ Padaha as British in the Protocol of
he would be held rgP°Mil l^f Jl ^ ^ reluctantly quitte d a game of bridge,
B.i.i'Sn. ;r fS Si atsts a„±“4;i
ventied by the delmiitatio & abandon The boundary in question was an
in the Protocol of the 13th ^tTineLoints viz., the junction of the so-called
unknown line between wo as J P point (in a straight line running from that
Talab and Mir] a war Rivers, ( conceivable that an accurate survey of this
junction) on ^ British or Padaha just within Persian
hue might show M jawar to ^ l^st ^ ^ ghah had ordered his Excellency
territory, but tlie oDjeci 01 11 & laborious inquiries into a question which was of
to sign Y^^i^^rtance 6 toother GoTCrnment 'and to settle ithn the basis of uti
no practical importance to e tll0lis bt it probable from our maps that Padaha
possidetis. M. Naus obseive c Mmiawar was not; but he admitted that the
maps on whicli ins ponjemuxe ^«+prrlav is I believe, a little reassured by the
reverted to the object at an m ^ him, but3 am inclined to think that it will be
explanations which ha\e ^ ratifications (even if such a course should
s-srw'SiS £.
reflects the views °f t^e SI » P its water from Mirjawar) demonstrates, I
desert (for he^ows that Padaha ^ been for me to induce the Persian
venture to think, ho P , M-icMahon’s “ red line.” One reason for this temper
Government to agree to Co c R i in act compensation in the north for any
is 0 f course the knowfedge that Russia^ P ^ . g stin a small strip 0 f
slight rectification made 111 0 TF . h ce i e b ra ted plain of Mogan (where the election
disputed ^Persia was ratified by the army and people), and the Emperor
of Nadir Shah as Ki g occas i orL 0 f his last interview with the Shah, to let this
of Russia consented, ent 0 The Mirjawar affair, as your Lordship Imo-vvs,
question remain foi t P 1 'p 1iqs i ans arL (i I think it very probable that the
hs been ^t-^y watehed by thejuj J Lived claims by
statists: ss.5 — .««i— •.««*
boundary. j have, &c.
(Signed) ARTHUR H. HARDINGE.
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