Coll 29/60 'Kermanshah: claim of Reuben Lalezar against British consul in respect of fines imposed in 1919' [‎131r] (264/316)

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British Legation
G u 1 h e k
July H6th # 1931.
Sir
From Kermanahah
loTi’a' 1 ,ruiy i m
From Kermanshah
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With reference to your despatch Ho* 148 (E1858/1868/34)
of March 31st, 1925, and previous correspondence regarding
the claim of a Persian subject named Reuben Lalehsar, I have
the honour to inform you that a new phase has now been reach
ed in this troublesome case by the endeavour of the claimant
to sue Eie iiajesty*s Consul. A copy of iir.Hoyland 1 s
despatch on this subject is enclosed herewith.
2. It will be recalled that in your despatch Ko. 41
(E8401/b815/34) of February 2nd, 1925, you instructed Sir
Percy Loraine to cause all the available evidence existing
in the archives at Kermanshah to be collected for eventual
production before a claims commission. Mr* consul Cowan
was la due course inatiucted to carry out the necessary
search, but for some reason which is not clear from the
files on the subject he appears not to have been able to
reply until October 1928. A copy of his despatch Ho. 58,
dated October 5th of that year, is enclosed herewith. From
the tenour of this despatch it would appear that Mr*Cowan
had been unsuccessful in his iearoh for evidence, since he
confines hi self to gen railties. Major Greenhouse, who
was Major heir’s successor at Kerm&nshah in 1928 occupied
a post on the Tehran ! taff of the -^nglo-Pereian oil Company,
was next approached on the subject, and gave it as his
opinion that the ease must have been sumEiarily dealt ?/ith
and
The Eight Honourable
Arthur Henderson M*P*,
The Foreign Office.