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of maintaining order, and in fact whose slender receipts they
curtail by claims for compensation, must submit with angelic
patience to the constantly repeated Anglo-Russian admoni
tions and threats concerning a restoration of order. Marling,
the English charge d’affaires, never tires of cabling reports
to London on the general insecurity in the towns and the
.^lorable state of the high roads.
These complaints are at last condensed on Oct. i6ti\
1910, into the well known ultimatum of England that “un
less by three months from now order has been restored to
the satisfaction of His Majesty’s Government” on the
Southern commercial high roads, England would take this
task in hand with troops of 1000 to 1200 men under the
command of British-Indian officers. The expense entailed
by these troops would have to be met by an increase of 10 %
on the import-duties of the Southern ports and from the reve
nues of the province of Ears 1 ). In plain words: England de
mands merely for her commerce in Persia the formation,
equipment and maintenance of a police troop under British
command and that from the revenues of the sovereign state
of Persia! —
England did not deny that this ultimatum provoked sheer
indignation not only in Persia but also in Constantinople,
where meetings of protest of Persians and lurks were held
and that it estranged even such Englishmen who endeavour
desperately and vainly to maintain the legend of English
justice 2 ). The reply of the Persian minister for Foreign Affairs
Hussein Kuli Khan Nawwab 3 ) to the English ultimatum was
an expose of the Anglo-Russian debit account, clothed in
x ) English Blue Books Persia No. 1 (19 11 ) No. 194 and enclosure.
2 ) The English minister (Barclay) writes to Grey on Nov. 20th 1910.)
"The suggestions which have been made in a portion of the European press
as to the recent note being the forerunner of the partition of Persia by (.neat
Britain and Russia have not fallen unheeded in this country (Persia). The
articles have been translated and published in full, while the comments thereon
have in some cases been even more exaggerated than those which appeared
>n the European papers.” (English Blue Books, Persia No. 1 [1911] No. 270
Now minister in Berlin.