"تاريخ الحرب الكبرى استنادًا إلى وثائق رسمية: العمليات في بلاد فارس ١٩١٤-١٩١٩" [ظ‎‎٤‎٢] (٥٦٦/٨٩)

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OPERATIONS IN PERSIA
date gave instructions that an attack on the British Residency
at Bushire which Listermann was inciting the Chief of Dilbar*
to make, should synchronise with other anti-Ally hostilities
initiated at Tehran. It had been due to reliable mforroahon
regarding Listermann’s incitement of the Dilbar chief to attack
the Bushire Residency that we had decided on his arrest. At
that time the guard at the Residency and cable station consisted
of about one hundred and eighty rifles of the 102nd Grenadiers.
Bushire and The information regarding Wassmuss rendered it more than
South Persia; ever desirable to arrest him. But though a friendly tribal
March 1915- hief ca pt ur ed one of his companionsf (Dr. Lenders) and the
baggage of the party, Wassmuss himself escaped From docu
ments found in this baggage it was learnt that Wassmuss had
been in Cairo shortly before the war and m Constantinople
when war broke out; and that he had been appointed leader
of a mission to induce Persians, Afghans and Indians to stait
hostilities against the British. This mission composed of
Germans, Turks and Indian revolutionaries and deserters, was
to work in several directions, Wassmuss himself being ongma y
destined for Afghanistan and India. His intentions were
further indicated by a mass of inflammatory pamphlets, m
English and in various Indian dialects, which called on Indian
soldiers to mutiny, the Moslem soldiers among them being
exhorted to join in the Jahad. . . , o -
To cope with possible trouble at Bushire, British warships
were sent there and to Dilbar; arrangements were made to
divert a detachment of Indian infantry, on its way to Basra,
to land at Bushire if necessary ; and the Persian Governor was
informed of the unneutral activities of the German consul.
The result was so satisfactory that it was found unnecessary to
land any troops.
At Shiraz, however, the welcome which Wassmuss met from
the Governor-General, the Swedish officers and the gendarmerie
seemed to show that they were all ready to subserve German
plans : and it soon became evident that the Germans expec
that their efforts, combined with the effect of the /o/wi, wou ^
shortly either force the Persian Government to join the Bentr
Powers or would leave Persian Ministers powerless to PL e ^
the gendarmerie from joining other forces, organised y u
German agency, in anti-Ally hostilities. It was repor e
one of their first acts would be to seize the British consu
consulate at Shiraz.
* About twenty-five miles south of Bushire. o-hdad.
] The other German, Bohnstorff, had already started to return to a©