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File 1323/1916 Pt 1 ‘Baluchistan:- Disturbed conditions on the Anglo-Persian border. Future administration of Mekran, Sarhad & the Kalat States’ [6v] (10/896)
The record is made up of 1 item (446 folios). It was created in 28 Mar 1916-16 Jan 1925. It was written in English. 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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MEMORANDUM.
(173.)
MEMORANDUM.
Memorandum (Serial No. 171) from the Agent to the Governor General
and Chief Commissioner in Baluchistan, No. 3156, dated 28th October 19^4:,
was transmitted to His Majesty’s Minister, Kabul, for information under
cover of the Foreign Secretary’s letter No. 45-K., dated the 7th November
1924.
(174)
Telegram P., to the Secretary of State for India, No. 1690-S., dated
3rd November 1924. (Repeated to Tehran, in continuation of tele
gram No. 1431-S.)
In view of your telegram 2825 (Serial No. 161), proposed photographic
reconnaissance was forbidden. Baluchistan now reports that aeroplane
flights were carried out early in October. These flights were restricted to
areas well within our border. Liaison Officer was asked by Persian Com
mander at Huzdap on 2nd October to fly from Koh Taftan Railway Station
within our border to Khwash and drop letter warning Shah
Sowar
In the East India Company army and later Indian Army, an ordinary native cavalryman or mounted cavalryman.
of Khwash
from raiding into British Baluchistan. Request was complied with.
Papers are being sent to you by this week’s mail. Stringent orders are being
issued prohibiting aeroplanes from crossing the frontier.
(175)
(Received on 26th October 1924, with Political Secretary’s letter No. 41*
dated 9th October 1924.)
E.-6442/115/34.
Foreign Office,
S. W. 1,
2nd October, 1924’.
Sir,
With reference to your letter No. P.-3762 (Serial No. 167) of September
19th, regarding the proposal of the Government of India to arrange for the
aerial photography of the district between Mirjawa and Koh-i-Malik Siah,
I am directed by Mr. Secretary Ramsay MacDonald to state that the flight
of British aeroplanes over Persian territory at the present juncture would
Memorandum (Serial No. 171) from the Agent to the Governor General
and Chief Commissioner in Baluchistan, No. 3156, dated 28th October 19-4,
was transmitted to the Secretary, Political Department, India Offic
London, for the information of His Majesty s Secretary of State for Indla >
under cover of the Foreign Secretary’s letter No. 88-M., dated the 6th
November 1924.
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The part contains reports, correspondence, and printed copies of correspondence, relating to affairs on the frontiers between Persia [Iran] and British Baluchistan [Pakistan], as well as between British Baluchistan and Afghanistan. The part includes: reports of unrest and desertion amongst the Zhob militia in 1916, and losses incurred as a result, as reported by the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Zhob, Major Arthur le Grand Jacob; the granting of financial rewards to officers and men in the Zhob militia who did not desert during the Third Anglo-Afghanistan War in 1919; the continuance of funds towards a number of British border forces in 1921, including the Swat Levies and the Mekran Levy Corps; discussion of the future arrangements for the administration of those parts of Mekran [Makran] under the authority of the Khanate of Kalat, 1922; reports on the Kalat administration; the disposal of the Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] to Duzdap [Zahedan] railway; and the transfer of control over tribes in the Sarhad district of Persian Baluchistan, from the British to the Persian authorities, March 1924.
The part’s principal correspondents are: the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India; the Agent to the Governor-General, Resident and Chief Commissioner, Baluchistan; the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Kalat, Terence Humphrey Keyes; the Foreign Office; and HM Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran.
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- 2r:207r, 208r:293v, 295r:337v, 339r:428v, 428ar:428av, 429r:448v
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