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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’ [101v] (200/896)
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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obtain possession of the Mirjawa-Dnzdap section, it will clearly be to their
interest to encourage trade, even if, owing to oriental dilatormess, they fail
to extend the existing line from Duzdap to some recognised trade centre m
Persia If, on the other hand, the Nushki-Mirjaua section of the line is r\
dismantled, this would obviously render the Persian section valueless, and the
Persian Government would have every reason to reproach the Government
of India for the action they had taken.
3 In these circumstances the Secretary of State sees no advantage in
approaching any British group in the manner suggested in the eighth para
graph of your letter and he hopes that Viscount Peel will concur m tlm view
that, if, with the authority of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s
Treasury, the Mirjawa-Duzdap section of the line is to be handed over free of
cost to the Persian Government it may be possible to induce the Government
of India to abandon all idea of eventually dismantling the Indian section of
the line, the maintenance of which is obviously essential not only in the inter
ests of the Persian section of the line, but in those of Indian trade with
Persia generally.
4. A copy of this letter is being sent to His Majesty’s Treasury.
I am, i
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
(Sd) LANCELOT OLIPHANT.
The Under Secretary of State,
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.
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(Received on 24th February 1924, with Political Secretary's letter No. 6, dated
the 7th February 1^24.)
E. 140-1-34.
Eoreign Office,
S. W. 1 ,
10 th January 1924.
Sir,
With reference to my letter* of the 31st ultimo, relative to the disposal
of the Mirjawa-Duzdap railway and the restoration of order in the Sarhad
and Persian Baluchistan, I am directed by the Secretary of State for Eoreign
Affairs to transmit to you, to be laid before Viscount Peel, a copy of a
telegram from His Majesty’s Minister at Tehran, stating that Persian military
operations in that region are about to take place and will be followed by the
withdrawal of the British garrisons at Khwash and Duzdap, thereby leaving
the Persian section of the railway under Persian control.
2. Sir P. Loraine points out with great force that in these circumstances
a decision is urgently necessary as to the disposal of the Persian section of the
railway, and I am therefore to express the Secretary of State’s hope that
Lord Peel will enable him to issue instructions to Sir P. Loraine on the
subject as early as may be possible.
3. A similar letter is being sent to His Majesty’s Treasury.
I am,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
(Sd.) LANCELOT OLIPHANT.
The Under Secretary of State,
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.
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No, 302.
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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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