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File 6/1912 Part 1 'Persia: Shiraz affairs; attack on Mr Smart; Swedish gendarmerie' [401v] (296/472)
The record is made up of 1 item (236 folios). It was created in Jan 1912-Jun 1912. It was written in English and French. 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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guilty. A violent "eign-^ ^
ZM7to g LTit fhe sudden death, a few days after the issue of the “ fetva,”
Affairs IXed that the “fetva” had been issued on the mujtehed sown authonty,
th- religious position being far too great ? a^t ^
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TX7e"roX&d states that the karmakam has returned, to Nejef,
wherein his absence Seyyid Yezdi issued a second “ fetva more moderate m tone, m
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which no reference is made to Great Britain. The issue of this “fetva” was due
apparently to a desire to prove that the first was not issued under pressure from the
karmakam^iigio^s mov?ment appearg to have failed for t h e present, and the vali is said
to have addressed warnings to the mujteheds.
Trade Routes from Bagdad into Persia.
The trade routes from Bagdad into Persia have been practically closed for the last
two months. This state of affairs has caused considerable loss to British merchants,
British goods to the value of 250,000Z. being accumulated at Bagdad.
Bagdad Demolitions.
A cheque for £ T. 5,400 was received on the 30th November from the Sublime
Porte in payment of claims of certain British subjects at Bagdad, Kadhimam, and
Kerbela for compensation for losses suffered by them through the demolition or
expropriation of their properties in those towns (see preceding quarterly reports).
The Sublime Porte stated that the case of the claim for compensation by the
brothers Abdul Ali, ice manufacturers, on account of the enforced lowering of their
prices, was still forming a subject of correspondence with the local authorities.
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Part 1 consists of correspondence relating to insecurity in southern Persia, particularly around Shiraz and along the Shiraz-Bushire roads. The papers tell of the British response to the situation, covering the following matters:
- the decision of whether to arm Shiraz or to evacuate the city;
- concern over Russia filling the gap left by the British were they to evacuate;
- the situation on the ground, conveyed in several reports;
- the proposal to occupy Bushire with a battalion and to subsidize local chiefs to maintain the roads;
- the Persian Government plan to employ Swedish officers to command and train a gendarmerie along some of the roads;
- British claims for reparation from the Persian Government following an attack on the Shiraz Consul, Mr Smart, and his escort;
- the question of providing winter quarters for Indian troops in Shiraz should they have remain there for the season.
The discussion over such matters is mostly between the Foreign Office, 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. , War Office, Government of India, and Minister at Tehran. Further correspondence, included as enclosures, is from Percy Zachariah Cox, 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. .
Included is memorandum on the situation in Southern Persia by J E F, Political Department, 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. , 16 February 1912.
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- 1 item (236 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front.
The subject 6 (Persia) consists of this one volume. The volume is divided into two parts.
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- File 6/1912 Part 1 'Persia: Shiraz affairs; attack on Mr Smart; Swedish gendarmerie'
- Pages
- 254r:289v, 290v:305v, 306v:446v, 447v:489v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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