Coll 34/12 'Slavery and Slave Trading: Measures to prevent slavery on the Trucial Coast' [‎52r] (103/473)

mwmniAL.
Mo. 16.
British ConaulstOf
Kerman.
16th February* 1940 .
Sir*
I htye the honour to refer to your despatch No.16
of the 20th December* 1939* on the subject of the intro
duction of alares into Saudi Arabia from Ir*ni«n Baluchistan*
2. In so far as the subject matter relates to ray
Consular districts* the enquiries I hare made rereal that
the traffic in slares from Iranian Baluchistan still exlsta*
though to s much less extent than formerly.
3. My information is that occasional shipments of
hurarin cargo* chiefly young girls and boys* ere made from
sheltered creeks along the Biysban coast between Kurgan
(Khargun'; ) end Bahtoadl* subordinate customs posts to Mlnab
end Jask respectively.
4. The ocrscais responsible for this truffle are
Beshakardls* inhabitants of the district of the seme florae
to the east of the Biyaban coast* end the Tehlrsels* s tribe
which ranges between the district of Bsshakerd and the coast.
6. The Tahlrsals are undoubtedly aided in their
nefarious trade by the feet that the Biyaban Aranieh guards
arc recruited solely from this tribe. It is feirly certain
that some of these guards must be aware of this business and
it is unlikely that ell the government officers at Mlnab
end Jask ere entirely ignorant of it. But the traffic is
sufficiently remunerative to enable the traders to psy for
oonnlvaije.
6. Vthlle the traflckers of Iranian Baluchistan end the
officers who connive at it are to be condemned for the pert
they play* it has to be admitted that these unwholesome
practices would cease if Saudi Arabia did not create the demand.
X am* etc.*
(Sg< . ) 0. A. Falconer.
Majesty's Sbyo/ Extraordinary and Minister Flenlpotentlsrr
at the Court of Iran,
Tehran.