File 3852/1912 Pt 2 'Persia. Conditions in South Persia. German Documents' [‎251v] (134/280)

May 31 st , 1915- "Last night the Farman farmar Min.
of the Interior told Mirzayantz, a prominent Armenian who
is a friend of mine, that the Persian govt, was determined to
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were all pro-German. He saifl mat rmwau wa» euiup.eieiy
in the hands of the Germans and that he is ”a most awful
fool.“
July 25 th , 1915- ” The gendarmes are having a hard
time to exist at’all. They are getting for all the gendarmes
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days excepted!!!). It is a slow process but they are slowly
being strangled “
would “see the gendarmerie in buggary“ before they would
let them get a shie of English money “
And these subjects of a nation esteemed throughout the
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gian creatures, who are vilified by English diplomatists, these
Swedish officers are nevertheless expected to maintain loyal,
that is to say, friendly feelings towards England!
But the measure of the insults they were subjected to
is not yet full. In order to obtain new material for accusations,
the British Consul at Shiraz obtains, on July 5 th , 1915, extracts
of the private accounts of the Swedish officers from the manager
of the Imperial Bank at Shiraz, Ferguson. The manager com
putes contrary to all commercial usage “for private information
and confidential use, if necessary", what private funds belonging
to Swedish officers had passed through his hands.
On April 8 th , the Commander of the Shiraz Regiment,
Major Pravitz, addressed a letter of warning to the General
Treasury at Shiraz in which he explains that the fact was well
known to him that the Treasury was owing the money for the
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