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WDIA FOREIGN SECREIi
Letter. No, 57 M
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UL 1915
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(Received with Army Department memorandum No. H. 6301, dated the 11th July 1916.)
Telegram P., No. 1212-P. N„ dated the 9th July 1916.
Irom—The General Officer Commanding, Kacha,
To—The Chief of the General Staff, Simla.
- 14 reported yesterday that 60 strangers on 30 camels arrived at
Ivawai Chah, date not certain but probably July 8th. Have warned General
Dyer, posts, and Ismailzais. Have tried to divert Captain Pemberton and his
infantry to intercept vm Balucbab. They are probably now at Hurmuk
D 1 visln! r Qltta Chief Ge “ eral Staff ’ re l ,eatcd General Staff, 4th (Quetta)
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No. 429 C., dated Sietan, the 17th June (received 1st July) 1916 (Confidential).
From-LiTOTENiNT-ConoNEL F B. Peideauk, C.I.E., His Britannic Majesty’s
Consul tor Sistan and Kain, J J
To—The Foreign Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political
Department.
, r I b ave th e honour to forward two German letters which were taken to
Mr. Vice-Consul New at Birjand by an Ismaili arrival from Kerman lasc
month, mde entry in my diary No. 20 for the week ending 13th May 1916.
2. The letters reached Sistan during my absence at Kobat, and the
necessity for sending them to the Government of India was accidentally over
looked tor some time. ^
3. Captain Bennett, 19th Punjabis, has kindly translated as much of the
letters as is ex clair. I will be glad if the meaning of the cyphered portion
can be sent to me after it has been scrutinized in Simla.
Enclosure No. 1.
Copy of a translation of a letter from Mr. Seiler to Mr. Niedermeyer^ dated Kerman the
6th February 1916.
[Thepassages in square brackets were written in cipher."]
[“ Unfortunately it has been impossible up to now to get a message
across the frontier.] Your two reports from Herat were received in Tehran,
Askersadeh would unfortunately not enter further into our service, but for
the present was for taking rest.
“ In Persia affairs have progressed vastly since you left. All the English
and Russians with many Armenians had to leave Ispahan in the beginning of
September. The same kind of thing occurred in Yezd during our march
through and in Kerman at the news of our approach Wustrow had the
English driven out of Shiraz in December they were ‘deported* by the
democrats. Wassmuss is carrying on his work successfully. The head of the
group Z has already reached Bampur. Zugmeyer and Greisinger are following
lo-day. 5
“ Affairs in general stand as follows, i.e., the whole of the South and Middle
Persia are on our side, the Russians have still only got Azerbaijan, Tehran and
Khorasan, the English have Sistan and a few places on the coast.
Tne administration of the State has come to a complete end, the orders of
the bribed Persian Government (once again Ain-ed-Daulah and Firman A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’).
Firma) are ignored, the Governors and to a certain extent the Gendarmerie
have gone over to the Mujahidds. Swed. Fdvall a. from this date d. (?)
chef is in Tehran. Prince R. is again in Tehran after wandering about.
Kardorff who has taken up a very hostile attitude towards us is in Tehran •
your brother will let you know about his activities. Von Der Goltz is in
Kermanshah, where Turkish troops are collecting; large quantities of money,
rifles and machine guns have at last reached Kermanshah. Pighting has
already begun at Hamadan with, as we hear, success.