File 1093/1915 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf:- H.M. Consul at Mohammerah’ [‎43r] (79/142)

Political,
No. 42.
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. , London,
30th April 1915.
To His Excellency the Right Honourable the Hover nor
General of India in Council.
My Loud,
With reference to correspondence ending with me telegram of the
6th March 1915, as to the appointment of
Urant oj free passage to ’ _ .
Lieutenant-Colonel U. L. Reunion, Lieutenant-Colonel U. L. Kennion as His
appointed His Majesty's Consul at Majesty’s Consul at Mohammerah, I
Mohammerah. forward for the information of Your
Excellency ’s Government < opy of correspondence' 1 ' with Colonel Kennion
* To Colonel Kennion, No. P. 819, respecting his claims to a free passage to
dated 11th March 1915. India under the rules governing the
From ditto, dated 15th March 1915 . , n r .v , i .
compulsory recall ol othcers to duty.
2. 1 understand that, had Colonel Kennion taken up his appointment at
Kashgar, which was cancelled in August last in consequence ol the outbreak
of war, the travelling allowance which he would have been entitled to receive
in respect of the journey from the Malakand to Kashgar would have more than
covered the expenses of his actual journey from England to Kashgar via the
Russian railway ; and that, had it not been for the expectation of receiving
travelling allowance on this basis, he would not have taken the short period of
privilege leave in England which expired on the 2Uth July 1914.
3. If these are the facts, Colonel Kennion would seem to have suffered
financially from rearrangements which were due to causes over which he had
no control; and in the circumstances I am prepared, with the concurrence
of Your Excellency’s Government, to waive the objections raised in Sir A.
Hirtzel’s letter No. P. 819 of the 11th March 1915, and to allow Colonel
Kennion, as a special case, a passage to India at the public expense.
4. If you concur in this view, 1 request that Colonel Kennion may be
informed that no recovery will be made from him in respect of the passage to
Mohammerah which was taken for him by this Office.
1 have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship’s most obedient humble Servant,
(Signed) Crewe.