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Telegram P., No. S. 946, dated the 14th September 1915.
From—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political
Department, Simla,
To—His Britannic Majesty's Consul, Sistan (repeated to Tehran).
Please see telegram sent by Officer Commanding, Nasratabad, to Chief of
the General Staff, Simla, dated 13th September. The Government of India do
not consider it desirable that, in pursuit of German parties, you should re
quisition Officer Commanding to send small detachments of troops. Such
detachments might be annihilated before support could come to their aid and
at all costs any such reverse to our troops is to be avoided.
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Telegram P., No. 127, dated (and received) the 14th September 1915.
From—His Britannic Majesty's Consul at Kerman, Kerman,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart
ment, Simla.
Germans. Without reference to me Governor-General has given an
assurance of safety to Nazim and each day the latter goes home and returns
to the Germans for the night. In regard to the German who is returning to
Ispahan, local report persists that he is the individual who came from Kain.
Repeated to Tehran and Birjand.
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Telegram P., No. 1940, dated (and received) the 14th September 1915.
From—The Hon'ble Lieutenant-Colonel Sie P. Z. Cox, K.C.I.E. C.S.I.
Political Kesident in the Persian Gulf, Basrah,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart
ment, Simla.
I have received the following from Consul, Hamadan, dated 13th Septem
ber :— Begins,
It is reported from Kermanshah that about thirty loads German muni
tions of war have arrived, including iron for fortification and land mines. By
degrees some three hundred Turkish troops wearing Persian caps with German
badges have been smuggled into Kermanshah, and also about seventy Baghdad
German have arrived. German Consul wants to raise twenty thousand. 0 men
to reinforce Turkish troops at Baghdad and continues to enlist men. Addressed
to His Britannic Majesty's Minister, Tehran, repeated to Cox. Ends.
Repeated to General Staff and to General Officer Commanding, Porce iC D M »
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Telegram P., No. 217 C., dated (and received) the 14th September 1915.
Irom Major F. B. Prideaux, C.I.E., His Britannic Majesty's Consul for Sistan
and Kain, J
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart
ment, Simla.
Please refer to your telegram No. 936 S. of the 11th September. In the
(opinion?) of the Medical Officer (Vice-Consul), Sistan Consulate, unless huts
are constructed without delay they will not dry and the men will be safer if
they remain in tents, mud walls being thrown up round each tent to shelter
the occupants from the wind. Huts would dry, our chief mason says, if they
were built of old bricks which had been sun dried, but not if new bricks are
made. 1 do not think that a sufficient quantity of old bricks can be purchased
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