"تقرير الإدارة عن المقيمية السياسية في الخليج الفارسي للأعوام ١٩١٥-١٩١٩" [ظ‎‎٥‎٨] (٣٩٦/١٢٣)

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PERSIAN GULF ADMINISTKATIOlS BEPOET
the part of himself and Hussain Khan, son of Said Khan, to accept a Persian
Governor appointed from Kerman. General Sykes, with the concurrence of
the Persian authorities in Kerman, recommended that thj Alu^am-us-Saltanah,
a Bam notable, should be appointed Governor and proceed with a small body
of Persian sowars to Bampur, where he should set about collecting revenue
on a reduced scale. This proposal was, however, negatived by the Government
of India and the Akram-us-Saltanah was informed that his services would
not be required. Major Keyes, in September, complained that Bahrain Khan
had been renewing his invitation to the Governor-General of Kerman to
appoint a Persian Governor and that correspondence had been passins between
Bahrain Khan and the Sardar Nusrat and the Akram-us-Saltanah, The matter
was followed up and His Majesty's Consul judged it advisable to summon the
Akram-us-Saltanah to Kerman in order to keep him out of evil or the suspicion
of evil. It appeared later that at least the correspondence complained of had
taken place while General Sykes' proposal was still on the tapis. The Akram-
us-Saltanah was detained for more than a month in Kerman in a friendly way,
and was then given permission, on 29th November, to return to Bam.
There is no reason to believe that the Persians would now be the least more
capable of governing Baluchistan unaided than they have been during the
last ten years.
A number of matters connected with British interests have remained as
a legacy from the German-cum-Democrat
.British Interests. , • , n i • i i • /. „
occupation, to some or which brief refer
ence may be made.
Soon alter they quitted Kirman, in December 1915, claims were submitted
British subjects' ciaLn on accumt of loss of by the following parties for the property
property - ^ which they had been forced to abandon
and which they then saw no prospect of seeing again ;—
Lieutenant-Colonel Ducat, His Britannic Majesty's Consul.
The officials of the Indo-European Telegraph Department.
Some of the members of the Church Missionary Society.
These have since been received in this Consulate.
Ibe claim cf the Imperial Bank of Persia was entered in Tehran; and
no claim has yet been submitted by the Oriental Carpet Manufacturers, Limit,
ed, there being some doubt as to whether the transfer of the Company's goods
to an American Company before they were seized was or was not valid, and
whether the claim should be made through the American or the British
authorities.
A laige amount of the property for which the claims were made has
been recovered, but the owners are not here and it is at present impossible
to state exactly how the account stands. Pinal approved claims will be even
tually dealt with through the office of the Controller of Hostile Trading Con-
cerns in asra and met from the sale-proceeds of Enemy property seized in
1 asrah, the Gull and Kerman. The latter comprises some 200 carpets and
office and other furniture lately the property of clie German Company and
xVl. Bruo-gmann. r J
+l,p t i le 11 car P« ts be ?ent to Basrah to be disposed of under
. i f 16 ,, 011 ' ' Hostile Trading Concerns, to whom the local sale-
proceeds ot the other property will also be remitted.
to Genera^Svk^ !^ ss by Persian subjects were submitted
realised focI\W %rn the ,% lt ^ P^ably be possible to meet from the funds
A few merchants connected with Kerman had been placed on the Statn-
ihe "Black List." j r P eis0ris ^ 7 ith whom British and
Some had been removed before His MaSty^^Consur! a forbid 1 den t0 trade i
to be a mvthical irirlixiVlrmi ^ a J tbi y s Vjonsul s arrival, one proved
" Kayanian"ah^dyIbera referred't^ Thp^p 6 11311168 0f " - d
yidual Me&hedi Ismail, Salmasi. ' I10W remains od1 . v one