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File 3443/1914 Pt 5 'Persia: German agents' [159v] (332/395)
The record is made up of 1 volume (188 folios). It was created in 1 Aug 1914-25 May 1920. It was written in English and German. 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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287
No. C.-5, dated Meshed, the 2nd February (received 12th March) 1917 (Confidential).
From Lieutenant-Colonel W. G. Grey, I.A , His Britannic Majesty's Consul-
General and Agent to the Government of India in Khorasan,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart
ment. r
I have the honour to refer to my telegram to your address No. C.-ll,
dated 30th ultimo, and to submit the following documents in original which
were found upon Ahmad Barbari, lately servant of Wagner at Herat, who was
arrested by our Agent at Karez on 24th ultimo :—
( 1 ) An Afghan passport.
(2) A cypher document.
2 . In paragraph 22 of my Diary No. 1 for the week ending 6 th ultimo it
was reported that this man had fallen out with his fellow servants and was
trying to obtain a passport to leave Herat for Persia. In this he ultimately
succeeded, and Wagner apparently seized the opportunity to send a letter to a
German friend at the American Legation in Tehran whom he described to
Ahmad as wearing spectacles and having no beard. Ahmad was given by
the German £1 with which to pay his expenses to Tehran, a sum hardly
sufficient for the purpose in these times, and was told that he would receive
an ample reward upon delivering the letter. He is still under observation
here, but has up to the present made no statement of sufficient interest to
report beyond the above particulars, and it is doubtful whether there is
anything more to be got out of him that we do not know already.
3. Copies of this letter and enclosure 2 are being forwarded to His
Majesty’s Minister in Tehran, and at the request of the Russian Consul-General
and Colonel Scauratt, Staff Officer of the Russian troops in Meshed, I have
also supplied them with copies of the cypher message.
[Hevised translation of enclosure
288
Ao. 1 to Serial No. 151 in Persia
Part IX.]
Series,
Translation of typed copy of letter from von Bethmann Holhveg to His Honour Kumar
Mahendra Pertab.
Berlin;
17th April 1915.
I have the honour to forward enclosed to Your Honour a letter from
His Majesty the Emperor and King to His Majesty the Amir of Afghanistan
as well as letters from the Chancellor to the Amir Habibulla, the Maharaja of
Nepal as well as to the Indian Princes indicated in the accompanying list,
together with translations in court language of the country concerned. I beg
Your Honour to hand the letter for His Majesty the Amir to him personally
and the remainder of the letters to be delivered to their destinations in a
suitable manner.
Your Honour will have convinced yourself during your stay in Germany
of the sympathy which Germany has for the Indian cause. I hope that
Your Honour will picture to the Amir of Afghanistan and the princes and
people of India the impression you have gained here. I leave it confidently
to Your Honour after your arrival in Kabul to take all measures to further
the Indian cause, in which Your Honour may rely on the powerful support
of the Imperial Government.
yon Bethmann Hollweg.
His Honour
The Kumar Mahendra Pertab of Hathras and Mursan.
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The volume contains correspondence regarding the movements and activities of the Central Powers in Persia [Iran] and Afghanistan between December 1916 and May 1920. The correspondence is particularly concerned with German agents captured in Persia and imprisoned in India, and with the retrieval of German papers left behind in Herat, Afghanistan.
The volume includes extracts from the diary of Walter Griesinger detailing the German mission to Afghanistan led by Oskar von Niedermayer in 1914-16. The primary correspondents are: Government of the German Empire; War Office; Directorate of Military Intelligence; British Consulate General, Meshed; Government of India.
The volume contains three items in German: a list of German military personnel active in Persia in February 1916 written by the German Military Attache, Tehran (ff 55-56); and two letters from the German Government relating to Niedermayer’s mission (ff 107 and 123-124).
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 (188 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
The subject 3443 (German War/Persia) consists of six volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/472-477. The volumes are divided into six parts, with each part comprising one volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 192; 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, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
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- File 3443/1914 Pt 5 'Persia: German agents'
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