'Persia. No 1 (1909). Correspondence respecting the affairs of Persia, December 1906 to November 1908' [‎72v] (128/236)

Naib Hussein and his party are on their way to Tehran to take refuge at the British
Legation, but on arriving at Kum they took sanctuary in the mosque.
Seistan.
The Persian post which left Seistan for Meshed on the 21st February was
stolen between Nasratabad and Baring. A sowar In the East India Company army and later Indian Army, an ordinary native cavalryman or mounted cavalryman. with it was killed, and 1,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. ,
the property of the Imperial Bank of Persia, were stolen. The correspondence bags
were subsequently recovered.
Kerman.
A band of 150 robbers has established itself at Shams, on the Yezd road, and
has already taken over 2,000 sheep from the surrounding villages.
Some 200 sowars and infantry looted the district round Bafsinjan about the
middle of January. They subsequently moved off towards Bardsir and Mashig.
Shiraz.
A feud between the Headmen of Konartakhte and Daliki culminated in fighting
on the Bushire road between those two places from the 23rd January to the 27th. On
the 21 st January it was reported that the up post from Bushire had been robbed at
Pul-i-Daliki, and from that date until the middle of February no post got through
to Shiraz. Mr. Grahame made representations to the Governor-General, and His
Majesty’s Charge d’Affaires to the Persian Government.
The Ispahan road also continues disturbed.
A leading Parsee merchant in Shiraz having received threatening letters,
representations were made by His Majesty’s Legation to the Persian Government, with
the result that orders for the protection of Parsees there were telegraphed to the
Foreign Office Agent.
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
Bushire.
The Lingah Agent reports that the news of the capture of the Humaidi pirates
by the British authorities, brought down the Gulf by native craft from Bunder Big,
caused general satisfaction. In Bushire there has been open rejoicing in the coffee-
shops frequented by the seafaring classes.
Bunder Abbas.
the caravan trade, which had been entirely suspended for six weeks, owing to
the disturbed state of the country, was resumed at the end of December. Caravans
arrived from Kerman and Lar. The Kerman caravans came by the Jiruft-Bam route,
the Baft-Dowletabad road being still unsafe.
(Signed) C. B. STOKES, Major,
Military Attachd.
Supplement to Monthly Summary of February 28, 1908.
Attempt on the Shah’s life, February 28, 1908.
The Shah, who had not been out of the Palace since he paid his state visit to the
National Assembly on the 12th November, 1907, was proceeding at 3 p.m. to his
country seat at Dochantapeh when a determined attempt was made on his life.
The procession was formed of a motor-car in front and a carriage behind, with
the usual escort of horsemen and running footmen. A little way past the house of
the Manager of the Imperial Bank, and before reaching that of the Zil-es-Sultan^ a
fusillade was opened on the motor-car, in which it was supposed the Shah rode, by
some persons from the adjoining roofs, who evidently could not see into the vehicles
from their elevated position. Two bombs were then thrown at the motor-car
completely shattering it, and killing two persons and wounding about seven others.
The Shah, who was seated in the carriage behind the motor-car, immediately emerged