مجموعة ‎٢٨/٩١ "بلاد فارس. حدود إيران-بلوشستان؛ انتهاك الحدود من قبل القوات البريطانية والإيرانيين" [و‎‎٧‎٠] (٥٥١/١٣٩)

Copy of a memorandum No* 509-7/37-PollLical f
dated tne *!3rd March 1&3£ fi*o& Uie Blatant political
i^ent in Mekran to tlie political ^gent y Kalat 9 idaatung*
heferenoe the correspondence resting with your
telegram No* 13^ ralds/36 dated the IDth March 193B t
In particular your imnediately proceeding telegram
No. 127 raids 5/36 dated 9th March forwarding
“Baluchistan's telegram No* 37~9/3 and calling on me
for a report regarding the real extent of Iranian
interests in the Kastag area and the reasons under
lying recent Incidents and activity in that area
insofar as I could Judge them.
2* In accordance w ith the instructions received 9
I proceeded to the spot 9 approaching it from the
south-west via n untsar and Kalmir Sunt. I arrived on
the afternoon of ttfrr 16th March and spent the fbllow-
ii% two days in the vicinity* During trie time I was
there the Iranians left me severely alone and no
patrolling was carried out from their recently
established Post at Kandor Sunt.
3. The Kastag plain la of considerable extent 9 and
the pocket it forms in the hills is the only
cultivable area on this part of the Frontier between
the Mand and Coastal Plains. Granted rain the area
would be quite fertile 9 and evidences of a larger
karez are still to be seen at Kahn-i-dalld s the
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gracing is good 9 and there are several hundred date
palms at Begadag-i-Kunar about 120 of which bear
fruit. Two Important camel roads pass through the
plain and cross the frontier within its limits 9
namely Mand to Bahu-Kalat and Pish in to Gwadur via
Sunt oar. The latter is of particular interest to the
Iranians owing to the quantity of trade which passes
along It.
4. It was in order to establish a customs post
on the Pishln-Gwadur trade route that a party set
out from Pishin early in February 1938 headed by
Mir m Irani