File 3516/1914 Pt 14 'German War: Persia; general situation' [‎220v] (445/532)

On arrival at Kain the Germans sent out the following spies :-—One man,
named Mirza Ali Khan, to Birjand (our friend the Saiyid we cought) and
another, named Muhammad Husein Bahluli, accompanied by Mirza Agha
Tehran! to Herat. -
The people of the city of Kain who helped the Germans are—
Kerbelai Muhammad.
Kerbelai Abuzar (Merchant).
(Another) (Butcher).
After staying three or four days with the Germans at Kain they sent him
(the Sistani) to Turbat with a letter for Khajeh Ibrahim, an Armenian. He
delivered the letter to the Armenian who gave it to a German, named Jaegar.
The German said he could not understand the letter and that the German
party at Kain had not sent him reports as they should have done. They gave
him a reply for the Germans at Kain. (This letter was found on the Sistani.
I gave the original to M. Samsonoff to whom it is of more importance and
kept a copy, attached herewith.)
On his return from Turbat he heard at Krimanj (11 farsakhs north of
Kain) that the Germans had fled from Kain towards Tun. From Krimanj he
went to Beyhud but failed to find the Germans there and he came on to Kain.
On the way from Turbat he heard that the Bussians had caught a man,
named Haji Agha, son of Haji Mulla Sultan, Gunabadi, and taken him to
Turbat as he was a supporter of the Germans.
The Sistani was seen near the house we occupied (the same the Germans
lived in) and as his actions were rather suspicious we collared him.
Appendix O.
City Kain,
10th August 1915.
STATEMENT OF HAJI HUSEIN, A SYCE (GROOM), EMPLOYED BY THE
GERMAN PARTY, WHO WAS ARRESTED AT KRIMANJ (4G MILES
NORTH OF KAIN).
My name is Haji Husein and I belong to TZazimein. I was at Baghdad
and took service there with a German Consul who was going to Shiraz. I
obtained leave and went to Ispahan. I intended to go on to Tehran, but two
days before leaving two Germans pressed me to take service with them and
go to Kainat. I refused at first, but they pressed me hard and eventually 1
took service with them as chief of the syces (Mir Akhur) on a salary of 21
Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. per mensem. J
The night the Russians arrived at Kain and the Germans fled, two hours
before sunrise, they told me to take the horses to the mosque. I went there
with three other syces and the horses. The Germans mounted there and went
oil.
I remained with some other servants at Kain for two days and then left
tor Beyhud and thence to Krimanj, intending to go to Meshed.
, ^ ^ P^onal kit, including cash, amounting to nearly 500 Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. ,
to Kerbelai Muhammad, son of Kerbelai Ali Juma of Kain, for safe custody.
277
No. Cf. 326, dated Bushire, the 13th September 1915 (Confidential).
From— -Major^Au^P. Trevor, C.LE., Officer on Special Duty (in the absence cf the
To ~The ^Jecret^to the Gove ram ent c£ Mi. in the Foreign and Politied
In contrauaticn of the correspondence ending with my letter No. Cf. 318
No. 100, dated the 17th August 1915. 31st August 1915, I have the bonOUF
e ri i p -r ^ forward herewith, for the information
of the Goyernment of India, a copy of the marginally-noted despatch from His