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File 3360/1916 Pt 1 'Persian correspondence (1916-17)' [‎246r] (496/804)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (398 folios). It was created in 1916-1917. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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He has also writteu a reply to you, and sent it; I have handed it oyer
separately to Meshedi Hussain.
W As regards my deposit, which they (the British) have attached in the
Bank at Bushire, contrary to the laws of the whole world, you
wrote that they will give me back my money. I was much
obliged for your efforts in this matter.
! lad writte ^ Aliat 1 should give a guarantee that I would not molest
juntisn subjects, so that they might send a signaller and repair the line.
I have never molested the signaller, and will not do so, and especially I
was unwilling that Mr. Simon, who was on very friendly terms with me should
leaie Borasjun, and the Government telegraph house and line get out of order
with U H , a 1 b&eD f 1 e - * said f durin £ the cours e of my discussions last year
witn toe British authorities, and assured them.
As regards protection of merchandise, it is clear to foreign and Persian
merchants that I do not do so, in order to please anyone. Bather, my honour
does not permit that I should not protect merchandise, which is like a deposit
m trust, m my district, or that I should betray my trust.
Whenever they (the British) agree to release my deposit from attachment
so that 1 may be reassured, the arrangement should be effected as follows •
^ lth interest should be handed over to Haji Muhammad Beqir
Behbeham, fur him to acknowledge its receipt to Haji Ghulam Ali Behbehani
and the latter to inform me by post of its receipt so that I may send the
remainder of the documents, which I have received from the Bank, to Shiraz to
Haji Ghulam Ali, and obtain my money from the latter.
Further they (the British) should hand me written assurances, signed by
H. B. H. (Farman Farma) and His Excellency Darya Begi, and Major Trevor,
the Deputy Political Besident, and the Bussian Consul, that they will on no
account cherish any evil intentions against, or inflict any punishment or loss
on myself, my friends, my dependants.
You also should give every kind of assurance, in view of that insight into
my affairs that you possess, and the trust that I repose in you that <c Inshallah,”
I shall not act contrary to that agreement. I agree to any arrangement you
make according to this above representation of mine.
But as to your suggestion that I should send Major Trevor a short friendly
letter, my neighbours (i.e., H. K. and Shabankareh) have spread certain
rumours which preclude my writing and in view of their adherence to the British
Government it is impossible to construe these rumours as being spread without
the knowledge of the British.
If these rumours are proved false, and a favourable reply is received from
you, and a friendly arrangement is reached, of course communications must take
place constantly (i e., betw een Ghazanfar and the British authorities) at first
through you, and later as circumstances permit.
You will hear what else I have to say from Meshedi Hussain, since
Meshedi Hussain is intelligent.
34
Telegram P., No. 3-C., dated the 6th (received 7th) January 1917.
From—His Britannic Majesty's Consul for Sistan and Kain,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political
Department, Delhi.
(Addressed to Tehran.)
Telegram has been received from Persian Minister that Shaukat-ul-Mulk
is re-appointed Governor of Sistan and Kain and Sartip Muhammad Baza
Khan, Deputy Governor of Sistan. I most strongly urge reversion of present
Deputy Governor, Sistan, to Karguzar here and removal of Motasam-us-Sultana
at once. Latter told me on January 1st that he had applied for transfer and

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Content

The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, and memoranda, comprising miscellaneous correspondence on British involvement in Persia in the period 1916-17.

Topics discussed include:

  • the activities of the German Vice-Consul, Bushire, Wilhelm Wassmuss, including reports of an attack on him (folio 312)
  • an account of the escape of German and Austrian prisoners (folio 281)
  • translations of letters from German prisoners transferred from Shiraz to Russia (ff 43-48) including a translation of Dr Zugmeyer's diary
  • discussion of German and Russian activities in Persia
  • tables, statistics and reports on troop numbers and weaponry, deployments, military engagements and casualties
  • British relations with local chiefs and their dealings with the Germans and Russians
  • transcripts of local newspaper articles on various topics including the Russian Revolution (folio 136v)
  • discussion of money required to pay to tribes
  • miscellaneous Army Department memoranda
  • general reports on the political and military situation in Persia including the 'Bakhtiari country' (ff 320-321)

The file is mainly divided into sections on events by weekly date period. Correspondents include: the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Department; HBM Minister, Tehran (Sir Charles Marling); HBM Consul, Bundar Abbas [Bandar Abbas]; HBM Consul, Shiraz; HM Consul-General, Meshed; HM Consul for Kerman and Persian Baluchistan, (David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer); HBM Vice-Consul, Ahwaz (Captain Edward Noel); HM Consul-General, Isfahan; General Officer Commanding, Sistan Field Force; The General Staff, South Persia Rifles, Shiraz; the Inspector-General, South Persia Rifles (Brigadier-General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes); Chief of the General Staff, Simla; Chief of the Imperial General Staff, London; the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Bushire; and the Deputy Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , Bushire.

Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

Extent and format
1 volume (398 folios)
Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file. The subject 3360 (Persian Correspondence) consists of three volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/612-614. The volumes are divided into three parts, with each part comprising 1 volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 400; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out

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