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File 3443/1914 Pt 2 'German War: German emissaries to Afghanistan' [38r] (82/490)
The record is made up of 1 volume (238 folios). It was created in 1 Jun 1915-21 Nov 1915. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: 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. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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CONFIDENTIAL.
Sistan and Kain Consulate Diary No. 38, for the I8th September 1915.
Personnel.
September 17th.—Mr. F. Hale, Imperial Bank of Persia, reached Birjand from
Sistan.
German Emissaries.
September 13th. The local Acting Bank Manager has heard that the
political situation in Yazd is bad.
September 15th. —Munshi Bahmat Ali has returned to Awaz from Yazdan.
He found an Afghan party of 11 sowars under Duffedar Yasin Khan at Yazdan on
the 9th September 1915. They told him they were there because they could not
get supplies on their own side of the border ! They had been there about 12 days.
They left quietly on the arrival of 18 Persian sarhazes. On the 12th September
Munshi
A term used in the Middle East, Persia and South Asia to refer to a secretary, assistant or amanuensis. Munshis were employed in the British administration in the Gulf.
Rahmat Ali crossed Herr Paschen and 5 sowars near Karez-i-Malki
returning to Afghanistan. There was about a mile between them, fortunately for
the Indian
Munshi
A term used in the Middle East, Persia and South Asia to refer to a secretary, assistant or amanuensis. Munshis were employed in the British administration in the Gulf.
! The
Munshi
A term used in the Middle East, Persia and South Asia to refer to a secretary, assistant or amanuensis. Munshis were employed in the British administration in the Gulf.
was told next day that the German had been
persuaded by Ali Akbar, Tehvildar, not to continue his journey to Ispahan as the
whole road was blocked by Russians and British and even the Governor would help
to arrest him. Paschen has been buying stocks of grain and leaving them in the
villages. From two other news-reporters I learn that about a dozen Afghans have
been similarly purchasing. A few villagers in Sunni Khana have refused to sell out
of fear of Shaukat-ul-Mulk. The Persian Sunnis are notoriously anxious that the
Germans and Afghans should not pass through their district, as they fear that the
Shiahs will seize the excuse afterwards to punish them.
September 16th. —I hear that Captain Thorbum, I. M. S.,
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
Surgeon,
Meshed, has started with 1 Hazara officer and 79 rank and file for Birjand. A
second detachment with 19 more men will follow, it is hoped, about the middle of
October.
The Sistan Column.
September 16th. —News is received from Khusp that a sentry of a small post
at Dastgird shot dead about midnight a local levy placed at the disposal of the
Military by the Consulate. The unfortunate man, according to the sentry’s and
a Hazara sepoy’s statements, gave no reply to challenges. He was sent forward
from another post by a non-commissioned officer who could not have instructed
him how to act. The Karguzar has written to me alleging that the sentry was
awakened at his post by the messenger !
The Situation in Sistan.
September 27^.—Sardar Taj Muhammad, Reki, has passed through Lutak
on his return journey to Sarhad without interviewing either the Deputy Governor
or His Majesty’s Vice-Consul.
At Deh Khalikdad near Lutak, he carried off three men of a tent-dwelling tribe
alleging that they were runaway slaves.
F. B. PRIDEAUX, Major,
His Britannic Majesty's Consul for Sistan and Kain,
I K w jsivcd on 10 L 0 v * ~ i J w 1L1
INDIA FOREIGN SECRETARY’S
T cttor. Ko. - ■’ ^
Dated
0011915
G. M. Press, Simla.—No, C. 409 F.Hi—#.10*15.—28—-M.D.
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The volume contains correspondence regarding the Persian Campaign of the First World War and the movements and activities of the Central Powers in Persia [Iran] between June and November 1915. The correspondence is particularly concerned with German and Ottoman attempts to infiltrate Afghanistan from Persia, and of ensuring the continued neutrality of both Afghanistan and Persia.
The primary correspondents are the British Legation, Tehran; the British Embassy, Petrograd [Saint Petersburg]; the Government of India; and the Foreign Office.
The volume contains a single folio in French (f 184), a communication from the Russian Ambassador in London.
The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (238 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 238; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
A previous foliation sequence between ff 121-127, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:41v, 42ar, 42r:42v, 43ar, 43r:48v, 50r:96v, 100r:122v, 123ar, 123r:145v, 148r:183v, 185r:212v, 213ar, 213r:219v, 220ar, 220r:222v, 223ar, 223r:238v, back-i
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