'SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS AND MEASURES OF THE VICEROYALTY OF HIS EXCELLENCY LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON, VICEROY AND GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA IN THE FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. I. JANUARY 1899-APRIL 1904. II. DECEMBER 1904-NOVEMBER 1905. VOLUME IV. PERSIA AND THE PERSIAN GULF.' [‎105r] (214/386)

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indefinitely postponed, and when this demand was firmly refused, the Russian
Legation prevailed upon them to request that a Russian official should
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35. The Mission which left
• Colonol A. H. McMahon, C.S.I., C.I E., Bri
tish Commissioner.
Captain V. I). O. Ramsay, Personal Assistant.
Major T. W. Irvine, I.M.S., Medical Officer.
Ma : or H. F. Walters, Commandinff Escort.
Ma]or C. U’anliss, Intelligence Orticcr.
Mr. T. R- J Ward, Irrigation
ti W. A. Johns, Railway »
’’ G. P. Tate, Survey.
Captain F. C. Webb Ware, C.I.E., Political Om-
eCI Captafn U. C. Bell, Commandant, B8th Camel
C Lieutenant C. R. H. P. Landon, Commanding
CR Miijor I J 8 . C A. t Donglas, Military Attache, Tehran
Legation, accompanied the Mission to Seistan en
route to Tehran.
and fh^Russian T.e^ation had to content themselves with Dr. Miller, the
Russian Consul’s brother, remaining with the Persian Commissioners lor a
short time, on the pretext that he was medically attending tVe lamin-i-
Nizam. .; • . ;
Quetta on the 10th January 1903, com
prised eleven* Rritish officers, 1,452
Native officers and men, 156 horses, 2,200
baggage and 49 riding camels. The
military escort consisted of 200 in
fantry (124th Baluchistan Regiment),
and 60 cavalry (35th Sind Horse). A
large staff of surveyors, levellers, and
draughtsmen was taken for Topographi
cal, Irrigation and Railway Surveys and
Military Intelligence work. The skilled
artisan staff included masons, carpenters,
blacksmiths, modus shopkeepers, trackers,
a taxidermist and 6 Punjabi boatmen.
Che services of the last were found especially valuable.
30 The route followed was rio Zangi Nawar to Kani, the first place in
Afghan territory where there were no representatives of the Afghans and
id vantage was taken of their absence to survey thoroughly and expire all the
various routes leading to the Hclmand with the result of ascertaining that as far
ss water difficulties were concerned there was nothing in the country between
w 11 - ni l iL TTelmand to prevent the passage of large bodies of men and
Nus, ‘V ‘'mh^i^on arrived at Khwaja Alien the Helmand on 4th February,
“ere " Afgh- "fficth sen?, to receive them The Afghan Com-
misslonor duly ioined at Rudbar on 12th February. Fp to the 19th
ruarv°the Persian officials in Seistan professed to have received no information
fmnf Tehran of their Government having consented to the arbitration of a
British officer, and said that nothing had been heard of tlie appointment of a
VersTan Commissioner, notwithstanding that the Persian Government had no i-
n w AV. A Harding their intention of having their representative on the
frontieifto mert the British arbitrator on 3 5th February. Major Bonn was even
among the masses. . . r
37 On the 20th Februarv the Karguzar and the Yamm-i Nizam formally
informed Mo jor Benn that they had been appointed join t Persian Commissioners,
that their instructions were insufficient to justify ins recognising them as Per-
an Commissioners empowered conjointly with Afghanistan to deal with him
as His Sy’s arbitrator in the Hclmand boundary dispute, and that pending
U,e I-Eecipt bv them of fresh instructions, he proposed to examine the river
downwards, and he asked for their assistance to his survey pm tics.