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that at least on one occasion negotiations for the cession to Russia of a Persian
port at the eastern extremity of the Gulf have taken place between the
Russian and the Persian Governments ; and, if such negotiations have hitherto
either proved abortive, or have been nominally xepudiated by one or other of
the parties concerned, it is yet, we think, in oui powei to show that they are
not only not inconsistent with, but are definitely coiroboiatcd by, the evidences
of Russian activity in Central and Southern Persia to which we now turn.
37. In 1897, a Russian Consul was appointed for the first time to Ispahan,
where Russian imports had not hitherto greatly exceeded a total of 300 bales
per annum. He was given a salary and title in excess of those enjoyed by the
British representative. During the present year this official, Prince Dabiya,
has been heard of at Shiraz and Bushire as the guest of the Prench Vice-
Consul, and subsequently at Mohammerah and Shushter on the Karun, where
he freely denounced British methods and ambitions. Sir M. Durand has
recently informed us by telegraph that the corps of so-called Persian Cossacks
at Tehran (i.c., Persian soldiers trained and commanded by Russian officers)
has been raised from 1,000 to 1,500 men, and that detachments of this corps
have for the first time been taken with them to the south by the Governors of
Shiraz and Arabistam Por the present the Russian officers have stayed behind;
but it is not difficult to imagine the circumstances in which they might claim
to rejoin their regiments. In 1897, M. Krugelow was sent from Jerusalem as
Russian Consul to Baghdad, with the special object of reporting upon the
acquisition by Russia of a coaling station in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . This gentleman
has taken much interest in Koweit, where Russian emissaries from Baghdad
have been residing continuously during the present year. In this context it
will not be forgotten that the concession recently sought for with the aid of
the Russian Embassy at Constantinople by Count Kapnist, a Russian of high
rank, for a railway from Tripoli in Syria to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. contemplated 3 a
terminus at Koweit.
38. . In Bushire and Bunder Abbas the Russians have lately developed a
marked interest. Two Russian doctors (Drs. Marc and Oust) arrived at
Bushire in 1897 for the now familiar purpose of studying the plague, which,
however, did not make its appearance until two years later,"in 1899. Dr. Marc
in 1897 occupied his waiting hours in visiting Bunder Abbas, from whence he
was in the habit of despatching official reports to his Government, and where
he magnanimously treated all patients free of charge. His medical pursuits
at this place were assisted by a third Russian, named Adamoff, who appears to
have been an artillery officer, and who subsequently visited Bushire and Basrah.
In 1898 two other Russian doctors, named Rodzewitz and Kornaievski,
appeared upon the scene, and visited Basrah, Bushire and Bunder Abbas. In
ecem ei a " ti Russian doctor, named Paschkowski, arrived in the
no ^ ai to P a y fhe regulation visit to Bunder Abbas; while he
nWiW b G l Jr 1 ofesslonal activity during the recent outbreak of
to EmsD > ; W16re he , has announced that, upon his approaching return
IdlaTmonaândn it ^ two T com Pîots. In connection with this
first mmouiV'a m , Yo 1 ur lordship’s recollection that when the
Russian Legation , n? 1 } a e ^ plague at Bushire in the past summer, the
ductors 11 withôsîoV T 7° aimounced their intention of sending
a plague cordon for tlumn % ° ? US 41 J e as we H as Shiraz, in order to establish
and that Russian doeW ^ cctloaof th ° Se P laces from the Indian pestilence,
a/e S e;LaX„ s SrbXuXt toTn^ a f rS ^ at S1 “ raz a “ d Kerman.’
every conceivable ^channel crfentrvînti? 11 ?? P“ wth y t° close
were they not, as has alrenrlv ^ i Asiatic Russia against the plague,
of system, that is at the same d time observed botfon'tf % ntrast p with the laxit J
the Russo-Afghan frontiers ooro^ wv i 1 0n t ! le p erso-Russian and on
the Russian dominions In contirmn/f 1 al< ? le Gan pla ° ue suc ceed in entering
that in 1895 a Russian offi-, , i f ° f 1 ° Ur st °^ ma ^ be mentioned
opposite to Bunder Abbas and thaf an f surve y ccl the island of Hormuz
Abbas, and that other and non-medical Russian emissaries

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