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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’ [33r] (63/896)
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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to retarn to Meshed at onee and tLTatter Z ^" 61 Mi Shah
present strained between above Prince and Q.yi. lr o n ,i i i e ^ a ^ 1011s are at
Telegraph Office in a pertarbed state of mind to inform Ami^L^hkarad
that has happened, Mahomed Husain wired to Meshed that At qm A ? 1
imprisoned .and returned if he was sent hacrhert troS Z "aH
Second telegram dated ( ?June 27th). Begins. Reference my telegram of June
f fith - Co, f 1 ‘‘ 1 Mahomed Husain fled towards Duzdap last night Salar has
been arrested and leaves tomorrow for Meshed AddrO^itl m 7 ?
to Tehran, Hoskins and Haworth. Ends Messed to Gould; repeated
it is stated in telegram No. 413, dated 28th June, from Vice-Consul Duzdar.
', Mahomed Husain Mirza was arrested on June 27th at Duzdan and
shot mm self dead middav on 28th June There armonr* ^ m f ^ llcl
as to dates. Minister has been informed. PP be S ° me Confuslon
(129)
Telegram P., from His Majesty’s Consul General. Meshed, No 42 dated
(and received) 2nd July 1924.
(Addressed Tehran, No. 42.)
Colonel Muhammad Hussain Mirza’s conduct and suicide were as I antici
pated duetto plot to rebel against present Persian Government made with Salar
Amjad. It is probable that plot was instigated by Salar who had already been
V'h-J ai rest with Mahmud Mirza at Tehran for suggesting arrest of Minister
Mar together with all Amir Lashkars and who had no desire to hand over u,
1 i 8 ti\ fthS ^ 1 an exam i aa tion of his accounts. Salar and Muham-
mad Hussain both belonged to Swedish Gendarmerie and were against present
^ Q? r v as been brau 8 ' ht to Meshed for court-martial together with
.one f aulat Shahi an accomplice of Hussain Khan. It is stated that matter was
iought to a head as tar as Muhammad Hussain is concerned by abuse of Slnh
by Colonel Air Shah Khan, a former member of Cossack Brigade and the newly
appointed C ommandant, Birjand and Duzdap Forces. y
Ar . . () / bcors f/ former Swedish Gendarmerie cannot be relied on by Prime
Minister as they are all very much against present state of affairs The
Kaisiammeh complained openly a few days ago to me of want of education of
lormer omcers o± Cossack Brigade and treatment received by them.
Keierence is to my telegram No. 40* addressed to Birjand.
(130)
(Received with Army Department endorsement No, 27, dated 4th July 1924).
Telegram P., from the British Military Attache, Meshed, to the Chief of
the General Staff, Simla, No. 311, dated the 30th June 1924.
. 1- With reference to the recent events in Birjand. Last night Salar Amiad
arrived in Meshed and is now in custody in the barracks outside the citv. The
body oi the Chief of Staff is en route from Duzdap to Meshed by car. The
Birjand affair is.attributed by Amir-i-Lasbkar to plot of Salar Amjad.
Amanuilah Mirza is due to arrive in Meshed to-day by aeroplane from Tehran
\ Not ? h V Af.<9.-3.—Salar Amjad was deprived of command of 2nd Brigade, Had (Meshed)
Division m May last for threatening when drunk, to use his men to arrest the Commander-in-Chief
ami the Divisional Commanders. No previous information about recent events in Birjand has
been received, but it would appear from the above that the Chief of Staff, Meshed Division has been
murdered as result of a plot attributed to Salar Amjad. Further reports are expected from
Meshed].
*Not received.
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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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