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Telegram P., No. 158, dated the 14-th (received 15th) December 1915.
From—His Britannic Majesty's Minister, Tehran,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart
ment, Delhi.
Please refer to my telegram No. 156. There is a Russian force at Laleken
but it has not been attacked.
Persian reports of fighting near Saveh are without foundation.
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Telegram P., No. 528-F., dated the 14-th (received 16th) December 1915.
From—His Britannic Majesty's Minister, Tehran,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political
Department, Delhi.
(Addressed Foreign Office ; repeated India, Petrograd.)
In spite of assurances of Prime Minister that mutinous gendarmerie and
Swedish officers had been dismissed nothing of the kind has taken place and
I have informed Prime Minister privately, with assent of Russian Minister,
that so long as Central Government maintains in its service a force which has
pillaged branches of Imperial Bank of Persia I cannot consent to December
instalment of Moratorium being paid over without instructions from His
Majesty’s Government.
Cabinet is on eve of dissolution.
Reports that Mujahids have made a successful attack on Saveh are false.
They have been circulated in the hope of effacing impression of defeat inflicted
at Sultan Bulak upon rebels.
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Telegram B,., No. 755-C,, dated the 15th (received 16th) December 1915,
From—The Deputy Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political
Department, Delhi.
My telegram No. 751-C.
I have received this afternoon letter from Doctor Azzoparty ? that Major
O’Connor is seriously ill and that “ his condition is most grave, so much so that
if arrangements cannot be made for his removal to Bushire I cannot hold
myself responsible for consequences. A change is essential and should be
immediate or consequences are not unlikely to be fatal. ”
I am writing by return messenger to Zair Khadar asking him to agree to
O’Connor being sent here for treatment on a written guarantee that if by
time he is well no arrangement has been arrived at for his release he will be
handed over again.
I added that consequences will be very serious if detention at Shiraz
should permanently injure health of, or prove fatal to Major.
Sent to Tehran; repeated to India, Basrah.
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Telegram R., No. 157, dated the 14th (received 16th) December 1915.
From—His Britannic Majesty's Minister, Tehran,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart*
ment, Delhi.
Your telegram No. 150-D. S., to Kerman.