'File No. II/12 Foreign Dept Memoranda of Information re: affairs in Persia and Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf. Jan '09 --' [‎49v] (98/178)

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7. His Britannic Majesty’s Consul-
Beceipts for traffic on General at Meshed re*
the Meshed-Seistan tele- ports that all receipts
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for traffic on the
Meshed-Seistan telegraph line have hitherto
been paid in monthly to the Persian clerk
who is in charge of the international traffic.
The Bussians have paid for each message at
the time of despatch, in the same manner. In
March, however, the Armenian at Tehran, who
is in charge of the accounts, told the English
clerk to send all receipts to him direct through
the Bank. I he International clerk, who is
for the Majlis, which now controls the office,
said that, if this were done, he would object
to our signaller sending any messages. His
Britannic Majesty’s Consul-General has now
instiucted the signaller to pay in the receipts
as before to the International clerk.
8. (Vide paragraph 7 of the Memoran-
M. Mornard’s pro- dum for A.pril 1909.\
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. , Vice-Consul at Seistan
understands that M. Mornard, of the Persian
Customs Department, has given up all idea of
travelling down the trade route.
9. (Vide paragraph 10 of the Memo-
Arms traffic in the randum for ^nril
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . JS00.) Three afms
caravans are reported to have passed through
Persian territory in May, keeping to the routes
to the west of Koh-i-Malik Siah in order to
avoid British territory.
The arms caravan, the arrival of which at
JNasratabad-Ispe was reported on the 23rd
April, is said to have passed through to Af o-han-
istan wa Aliabad in the 2nd week of Mav.
The Afghans are stated to have captured two
Cossacks, and, after seizing their rifles and
stripping them, to have let them go.
A report received from Mr. Hedges, the
Telegraphist deputed to Bam, intimated that
as all Afghan caravans had passed for this
“V he had left Bam for Eehaneh on the
zlith May.
10. (Vide paragraphs 63 and 64 of the
Comp«ny.' PerSiaU ° U Memorandum for July
. •i o• -n n l9uo.) At the end of
April Sir E. Grey telegraphed to Sir G
Barclay that the newly-formed Anglo-Persian
0.1 Company wished to acquire immediately
a site for a refinery on Abadan Island and a
stop of land for a pipe line to connect the
refinery with the wells, that the land for the
refinery was estimated to be not over I 000
acres and was uncultivated, as was most of
the land which would be required for the
pipe line, and the Company were entitled
to acquire waste land free of cost by the
terms of their Concession. The Companv
however, recognised that the Sheikh’s