File 3360/1916 Pt 1 'Persian correspondence (1916-17)' [‎122v] (249/804)

Enclosure 'No. 3.
No. 7166, dated the 2lst Jamadi I 1365 [15th March (received 17th April) 1917].
From His Royal Highness Prince Farman Farma, Governor-General of Ears
and the Gulf Ports, Shiraz,
To— His Excellency Darya Begi, Governor of the Gulf Ports and Dashti and
Dashtistan, Bushire.
According to a report received, Your Excellency has called upon
Ghazanfar-us-Sultaneh to send in the revenue, and he has replied that the
Swedes had fixed a salary for him and that, as the salary was not paid in
full, he had appropriated for himself the State revenue in payment of the
salary fixed by the Swedes. You should send this letter of mine in original,
or a copy thereof, to him, so that he may know that he can have a salary, or
live at Burazjun, only when he is servant of the Persian Government. He is
a subject of 'Wassmuss and should ask him to pay him his salary.
You can only tell him that the life of their refusal to pay revenue, and of
the other doings of the Dashtistanis and Tangistanis, will not last another four
or five months.
Parman Parma.
Enclosure No. 4.
No. 7168, dated the 21st Jamadi I 1335 [15th March (received 17th April) 1917].
From—His Royal Highness Prince Farman Farm a, Governor-General of Ears
and the Gulf Ports, Shiraz,
To —His Excellency Darya Begi, Governor of the Gulf Ports aiid Dashti and
Dashtistani, Bushire.
I have written and am sending herewith the order you wished to he issued
to Ghazanfar-us-Sultaneh in connection with the revenue of Burazjun. I
have also written a long separate letter. If you deem it advisable you can#
after consulting the Deputy of the Consul-General, take a copy of it and send
it to Ghazanfar-us-Sultaneh through any one, who is in relations with him.
Enclosure No. 5.
No. 7169, dated the 21st Jamadi I 1335 [15th March (received 17th April) 1917].
From— His Royal Highness Prince Farman Farma, Governor-General of Pars
and the Gulf Ports, Shiraz,
To—His Excellency Darya Begi, Governor of the Gulf Ports, Dashti and Dash
tistani, Bushire.
Among the reports on the situation in those parts, you had sent me a
report stating that Ghazanfar-us-Sultaneh corresponds with you, and manifests
his desire to serve the Government and the Governor-General. This favour
able report has not been justified by any action on his part up to now, and it
appears to me contrary to the facts. While we were in Tehran, we made
enquiries, in the course of conversation, from the persons who were well
informed of affairs in and possessed knowledge of the districts of Dashti and
Dashtistan, and they communicated their information to us. Among others
they said that Ghazanfar-us-Sultaneh was a competent person, and in particular
a good letter- writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. . In view of our former acquaintance with his late father,
Mirza Husain Khan, we were sure that he was by birth an intelligent and
sensible person, and accordingly I sent a telegram to him from Tehran.
Shortly after our arrival also, we sent every recommendation to you in his
favour. The letters which we received from him all contained assurances that
he would restore order in Borazjun, etc., and carry out our orders. We on our
part in view of our past relations with his father intended to make an arrange
ment, and try to include him in the persons v ho have been forgiven, so that
the British authorities might overlook his actions in the past and he might
po-operate and conform to the exigencies of the present regime.