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I am strongly impressed with importance ol settling hinterland question
in such a way as will ensure tranquillity amongst tribes now actively hostile
against Bushire and such a favourable opportunity as that which is now
afforded is unlikely to recur. t
Addressed Foreign; repeated Minister, Tehran, and Chief of General
Staff and Bushire.
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No. Cf. 822, dated Bushire, the 6th (received 13th) September 1915 (Confidential).
From— Major A. P. Trevor, C.I.E., Officer on Special Duty (in the absence of the
Resident),
To—The Foreign Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political
Department, Simla.
In amplification of my telegram No. 503 C,, dated 28th August, I have
the honour to forward herewith, for the information of the Government of
India, a copy of the marginally-noted
No. cf. 321 , dated 6 th September 1915 . despatch w M c h I have addressed to His
Majesty’s Minister on the subject of the pressure now being brought to bear
by the pro-German party on the Khans friendly to us in the Bushire hinterland,
with a view to inducing them to throw in their lot with the pro-Germans.
Enclosure No. 1.
No. Cf. 321, dated Bushire, the 6th September 1915 (Confidential).
y r om —Major A. P. Trevor, C f I.E., Acting Consul-General, Bushire,
To His Excellency Sir C. Marling, K.C.M.G., C.B., His Britannic Majesty's
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at the Court of Persia,
Tehran.
With reference to my telegram No. 503 C., dated the 28th August 1915,
regarding the violent pressure which is being brought by Mukhbir-us-Sultaneh,
his instruments, the local Gendarmerie officers and others on Haidar Khan of
Hayat Baud and Ismail Khan of Shabankareh, who have identified them
selves with British interests and opposed by armed force for several months the
avowedly anti-British aims of the Khan of Borasjun and his confederates, I
have now the honour to forward, for Your Excellency’s information, transla
tions of the documents in question, which were forwarded to us by Haidar
Khan and Ismail Khan.
At the same time I venture to enclose the original telegrams of Mukhbiiv
us-Sultaneh and letters of Abu Talib Khan, Gendarmerie Officer at Borasjun,
and of the Khan of Borasjun himself in the hope that they may be of use to
Your Excellency as documentary evidence for the purpose of convincing the
Persian Government of the good reasons which we have for demanding the
expulsion of all these individuals from the positions which they now hold.
At the same time I take the opportunity of forwarding, {or Your Excel
lency’s information, a copy of a note on the services rendered by Haidar Khan
of Havat Daoud and Kharg Island to the British Government, which has been
forwarded by Sir Percy Cox to the Government of India, for the information
of His Excellency the Viceroy.
I am sure that it will enable you to realise the whole-hearted co-operation
and devotion to British interests of this influential chieftain of the littoral
between Arabistan and Bushire, his belief in British success m the European
war (contrary to almost all Persians in the south and m defiance of them
svmpathies) and his reliance on British support for himself, when I mention
that since the arrest of the Germans in March last he has writ en more than
fifty long letters to the Consulate-General, in connection with the situation m
the hinterland.