File 1377/1905 Pt 1 'Perso-Baluch Frontier: Frontier Demarcation' [‎149r] (69/188)

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Telegram, dated the 20th (received 21st) March 1905.
From—His Majesty’s Secretary o£ State for India, London,
To—His Excellency the Viceroy, Calcutta.
Perso-Balueli frontier. His Britannic Majesty’s Minister, Tehran, has
been instructed to endeavour to settle the question on the basis of your
telegram, dated the 27th February 1905.
Telegram, No. 1093 F., dated the 23rd March 1905.
From—The Foreign Secretary, Calcutta,
To—C olonel A. H. McMahon, C.S.I., C.I.E., British Commissioner, Seistan
Arbitration Commission, Seistan.
My telegram 732 F., 27th February. Following telegram received from
Secretary of State to-day:— Begins. Perso-Baluch frontier. * * *
27th February 1905. Ends.
From— Sir A. Hardinge, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., His Britannic Majesty’s Minister,
’totaan, ^ ^
To—&-MT-FRASKRy Esqr, G-.I.&., Cfficiatinff^ecretary to the Government of India
in the Foreign Department. )
During a long conversation which 1 have just had with the Grand Vizier,
I proposed a settlement of pending questions in Seistan on following basis :—
(l)that the Hashmat-ul-Mulk should get the Governorship of Kain, and another
Governor acceptable to His Majesty’s Government be appointed to Seistan
proper; ( 2 ) that an agreement should be concluded for the regular supply of
provisions for our frontier posts in return for our abandoment of Mirjawa
delimitation. His Highness objected to (1) on the ground that he wished to
unite Seistan and Kain into one province with a new Governor independent of
Meshed and directly subject to Tehran. I suspect that the new Governor will be
either the Yamin-i-Nizam or the Mustansir-ul-Mulk with the sons of the
Shaukat and Hashmat as his deputies at Birjand and Nasratabad, respectively.
will probably prefer as a separate Government. He agreed io principle to (2),
but asked for details which I said I would supply on hearing from Your
Lordship if you on your part accepted this compromise. At the same time I
reminded him that my orders from you were to insist on the reinstatement of
the Hashmat-ul-Mulk in Seistan. The latter would tal^Kain, but may not
care so much about Tabas. I also understand that our local officers now regard
both Yamin and Mustansir-ul-Mulk as friendly.
On the other points mentioned in my telegram No. 32,1'lth Ma^ch, I am
making by sustained pressure a little headway. He has asked me not to add
to his difficulties during his present struggles with Russians, but has admitted
that we have been forbearing. His position is shaky, and in order to save it he
appears to have consented to Shah’s journey to Europe which he had on public
grounds been opposing.
Addressed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; repeated to Calcutta
and McMahon.
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Telegram, No. 56, dated the 22nd (received 23rd) March 1905.
From— Sir A. Hardinge, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., His Britanic Majesty’s Minister,
/tJr/^To—S.M. Fraseii, Esq., C.I.E., Officiating/Secretary to the Government of India
in the Foreign Department^) A
Please refer to my telegram immediately preceding this. Could you give
me some indication of the amount of supplies, which, assuming that proposal
two is adopted, we should require for our frontier posts from Seistan and Mir
jawa, respectively. The total abolition of all restrictions will probably be
difficult to secure, but an agreement providing something short of it may be
possible..
Addressed to Colonel McMahon, Seistan.
elegram, No. 55, dated and received 22 nd March 1905.
This was not cjphered. The cypher came either
Proper or Tabas.
Eventually he pledged himself to give the
Hashmat-ul-Mulk either Seistan * proper
or Tabas which the Persian Government