"تقارير إدارية ١٩٠٥-١٩١٠" [و‎‎٢‎٢‎١] (٦١٦/٤٤٦)

POLITICAL RESIDENCY FOR 1909.
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In the same way the participation of the Kash^ai in t?.. •
must be considered unproved, but no one doubts that th E : ussla ' n robbery
they were, at least considered themselves safp frn^ , . wh(X;Ver
Sowlet, if they did not act with his knowMge 7 retallatlon
adherent of Sowlet. He told me of his intended departoe and ^ ^
great laugh : " They call me a representativeTvakXof th
everybody knows I am only the officer (Mamour) of Sowlet-ed-Dowlfh How
in the world could the Kashgai choose a vakil ? " -Uowleh. How
These tribes were as usual under the control of one or other of the Kawami
Khamseh tribes.
brothers throughout the year, except for
Kawam-ul-Mulk resigned all his offices m con^eq^cTof rLleS-Sn 0
erals refusal of responsibility for sending Nasr ed-Dowleh to Lm SardTr
Firuz was appointed to the charge of the Khamseh, and professed to be or
gamzing an expedition to Dehbid, with the object of coercing them But
he did not leave Shirad, and Kawam-ul-Mulk's relations with the tribe seem
to have continued exactly as before quite unafiected by his formal resTgnatbm
The headmen professed entire readiness to come to Shiraz and fight the
K^hgai, and sent several bellicose messages to that effect, but when ft came
ound the KawamTn /if t0 ^ their pr0mises collecting
round the Kawam in a large armed camp near Sivend. This was a most un
fortunate event for the countryside as well as for trade, as it soon became
clear that their mam object was wholesale robbery, and they paid no attention
whatever to Kawajn-ul-Mulk's attempts to restrain them. attention
KprntVtL?^^ 4 u g ust ' they were raiding far and wide in Yezd and
depredations exceeding anything committed by them in pre-
VlUUb jvcirS.
i™ J h tt y ^ ls0 1 ca : used numerous interruptions to the telegraph line by shoot-
g at tne insulators, a nuisance which becomes every year more prevalent.
^nt Ka i!' a omu Mu i k , Was , appointed Governor-General of Kerman about
^ r f k al J tr , were entrusted nominally to his son, Intizam-ul-
K ^ the real control of affairs being in the hands of Nasr-ed-Dowleh,
in f 11 . the latter was precluded for the moment from taking an official part
Km 7 . Potion as Russian Consular Agent. Intizam-ul-Mamalik,
nowever, succeeded m enticing Jani Khan, the principal chief of the Jabbara,
arger ot the two main sub-divisions of the Arabs, into a trap and putting
tin l n .? e dld not however dare to detain him more than a week or
wW ^ 1 ? cldent a g 00( i effect for the moment. It remains to be seen
vJ™ Khan wil1 take during the spring migration of 1910 to re
venge himself for this humiliation.
hist AS f 36 seen froin the above summary, an important feature of the
of j ^ ^ ear bas been ^ le cons pi cu ous contrast between the relations
forTr? "i • 0W ^ e ^ to t ^ e K as hg a i an d the Kawamis to the Khamseh. The
left l 0WeS P osltion t0 heredity and asks nothing from Tehran but to be
sn1pi a + ne ' e l a tter are essentially townspeople, owing their position
thp P + P ow ers conferred from Tehran. Consequently, any weakening in
ae-e nf fhi aut ^ or i t y is to the advantage of the former and to the disadvant-
brnth v . On the other hand, while Sowlet has a serious rival in his
as wf ^ ain ' there is no serious candidate for the headship of the Arabs,
f^lse S Pj 0ve y^ 1611 Mansur-es-Sultaneh, who has a better claim than any one
enm'it 11 f k ^ or ^ the spring and merely succeeded in earning the
Wbes^ 0 Kawamis without obtaining any extensive support from the
The Boir Ahmadi section of this tribe continued their depredations
Kuhgeiu. throughout the year, growing progres-
^inated ' h sively bolder until their operations ter-
At thp 1 in * a ^ ack the Russian Consular caravan already mentioned.
0 ose the year they were holding the Sine Safid Pass near Dastarjin