مجموعة ‎٢٨/٩١ "بلاد فارس. حدود إيران-بلوشستان؛ انتهاك الحدود من قبل القوات البريطانية والإيرانيين" [و‎‎٩‎٣] (٥٥١/١٨٥)

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Copy of memo. No. 8/36/RD-7284-P, dated the ^ '
11th December 1937, from the Hon'ble the Agent to the^-fe*
Governor General, Kfesident and Chief Commissioner in
Baluchistan, Quetta, to the Secretary to the Government'*'
of India, External Affairs Department, New Delhi. jH
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Alleged looting of a shop at pilani Sulit in .Kalat
State (Mekran) territory by Iranian Cub toms- ^ r
employees from Pishin. n \
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enclosure in
<r,!/\ FOREIGN SECRETARY’
Reference paragraph 4 of Baluchistan Agency“
Confidential Diary No. 22 of 1937.
2. It is reported that on or about the 1st November
1937 five sepoys and one camel-man, Iranian Customs
employees from Pishin (Map 31.F/D.4), raided the newly-
opened shop of an Iranian named juma son of Musa in
Pilani Sunt, locally known as Kastag (Map 31-G.D.I) in
Kalat state (Mekran) territory about 3 miles from the
frontier on the British side. Goods valued at Rs.150/-
to 200/- were looted from the shop. The owner Juma has
been living in Mekran for the last 12 years.
3. The position regarding the frontier in this
section is that a line was determined by General
GrOldsmid f s party in 1871 vide map of Western Baluchistan
forwarded with late Foreign and political Department
memorandum No. F.214-N/31,dated the 27th March 1933 but,
although there was an exchange of notes between His
Britannic Majesty's Minister,Tehran and the Persian
Minister for Foreign Affairs, dated September 1871, no
actual demarcation was ever carried out vide dossier of
important documents in connection with the Perso-Baluch
Frontier forwarded with late Foreign and political
Department memorandum No. F.214-N/3 1, dated the 27th
rch 1934.
Letter No. t
Dated 6 J A:;
Received 24 JaN
The looted shop is well within the Kalat
bbrder and it appears that this is a case of an
incursion into British territory warranting a protest to,
Wid explanation by, the Iranian Government.
4. A copy of this communication is being forwarded
to His Majesty's Minister Tehran.