مجموعة ‎٢٨/٩١ "بلاد فارس. حدود إيران-بلوشستان؛ انتهاك الحدود من قبل القوات البريطانية والإيرانيين" [و‎‎٦‎٧] (٥٥١/١٣٣)

Copy of a memorandum No* 1369-(Haid8-5/36) * f dated
the 9th March 1938 from the Political Agent f Kalat,
to the Secretary to the Agent to the Governor -
General in Baluchistan 9 Quetta*
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Subject !• (1) Alleged looting of a shop at Pilani # ~
Sunt in Kalat State (Mekran) territory by
Iranian Cub toms Employee© from Plehin*
Alleged visit of a party of British
Indian Soldiers to a village named
K&stak near Pishin*
Kindly refer to your memorandum No* 8/36-KD-
1047/P of the 26th January 1938 and find herewith
Major St* John*a map of 1874*
Further enquiry from the a©© letant Political
Agent, Mekran shows that the looting of Juma Khan’s
goods occurred in the Kastag area (which is bisected
by the indo-Iranian boundary line) in the neighbour
hood of Pilani Sunt (31.G/D1) and about six miles
from the International Boundary as shown in map
31.G of 1915 (reprinted 1916)* Juma Khan’s statement
is that he sent cloth and leather goods worth
&• 200/- by camel from his shop in Hand to Buntsar
via the Kaatag area (British) with the Idea of
peddling the articles enroute and that on the 3rd
November 1937, whilst well within British territory,
the Iranian Sepoys from Pishin (31 F/D*4) accompanied
by Our Mohd son of Ghulam Qatiir and lAirad Mohd son
of Gianchah (also of Pishin) apprehended syod seized
his property* There is no reason to suppose that
there was an attempt at smuggling nor that the
seizure took place in Iranian territory, though this
can only be definitely proved by examination on the
spot*
Enquiry Into the counter charge of an alleged
visit by a party of British soldiers into Iranian
territory vide British Legation Despatch No. 229(665/
2/37) of the 15th December 3937 elicits the fact
at
that^ the beginning of November and in order to
enquire into the above mentioned seizure of