"ملف رقم II/١٢ مذكرات معلومات من إدارة الخارجية بخصوص شؤون بلاد فارس والساحل العربي من الخليج الفارسي. يناير "٠٩ --" [ظ‎‎١‎٦] (١٧٨/٣٢)

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up of the Directors of the British and Russian
banks, with Persian Delegates—this Commis
sion to control expenditure and to see that the
expenditure is devoted exclusively to the wants
of Persia—to superintend various Budgets
of the Administration, and to assist the
Minister of Finance in the revision and regu-
larisation of the maliat laws.
(4) The two Governments would be pre
pared, in order to prove their amicable feelings,
to place at the Persian Government’s disposal
an advance of £200,000, on the conditions
arranged in 1906 {vide paragraph 9 of Memo-
randum for October 1906), in order to meet
the immediate expenses necessitated by the
reforms being introduced.
The British reply to the Russian Memo
randum is under consideration.
The Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs
is displaying considerable anxiety as to the
situation, and in an interview with Sir G.
Barclay on the 16th February urged on him
the immediate necessity for further joint
representations.
The Nationalists arc reported to have-
acti '- e in
Mazanderan towards
the end of January, and there was apparently
a possibility of the Turkomans joining them.
The Governor is said to have sounded the
Russian Consul at Astcrabad as to how the
Russian Government would view a coalition
of the Caspian provinces.
{Fide paragraph 2 of Memorandum
Disturbances in Ispahan, /‘f 1909.)
There has been no
change during the past month in the situation
at Ispahan. On the 12th February, the
Bakhtiari Chiefs from Tehran were at Kum
parleying with the Samsam.
During the same period there has been no
situation in Azerbaijan. material alteration in
the situation at Tabriz.
Early in January the village of Sardarud which
had been captured by the National party was L
evacuated by them. The Royalists captured
a few prisoners, who were released after they
had been stripped. The incident was magni
fied at Tehran into a great victory by ^the
Royalist party.
On the 13th January, it was reported that
communications were being interrupted by
the Royalist troops on the road in the vicinity
of Julfa. The last Europe post had been
captured and carried off by them. Their
plan apparently was to surround Tabriz with a
force and starve it into surrender. It was
almost impossible to get fuel in Tabriz and
prices were going up. There was fighting
at Khoi and Salmas. 6