ملف ٣٤٤٣/١٩١٤ الجزء ٢ "الحرب الألمانية: المبعوثون الألمان إلى أفغانستان" [و‎‎٢‎١‎٥] (٤٩٠/٤٤٠)

rrom \ iceroij, 8th Jahj 1915.
{Repealed to Tehran.)
Foreign Secret. Your “ clear the line ” teWran, of Tit, , i. „ .
Instructions were issuetl on litli inst-mt i I ^ i' i / 1 ‘ " ^ ■ I ersia.
sense and will l, e repeated U the^^s oup^ jttcal authorities in the same
entirely misunderstwd our view of siu.ation in Af'hanistar^'u'hiJ'"^
liave good reason to believe the Amir’s sincere desire m ? '' lllle 1 ."'e
we have every reason to distrust popular att/tud?,I, A S
pro- urkish, fanatical and inflammable to a degree l>n.‘e c ,’f
agents with armed parties won],I almost certainly provoke shuatior S
whicli would make it doubtful whether \mir would -iKi • *• f ] . e
present attitude and we might be confronted with poski^ whichwould tax
our resources to utmost, reacting as it certainly would n the vv le of
/our ront.er mcludmg Baluchistan. I, was in' order to obviate su I
possibihty that we proposed to use troops to intercept German Dirties
n uch P smne ^■•?o-Haluch border or Seishm in
....u , , • f - v have been llse ' 1 nt the past to intercept arms
terh, 1 are 'Z WT ^ T ^ if '’-ian XS
inteuoi are able to deal with German parties so much the better
ui ms i m tioiih to ( onsul at Kerman gave them every opportunity of doing;
* , am we proposed no action in interior of Persia not consonant with rules
Of Persia f ul t ’f ft . hlt " erto ohs ®g ed - . h is onl.v if local authorities in interior
sia fad that we proposed drastic action to prevent Germans entering
also foded^we' hdf r. * te,T f0,y ,f "V™ 1 - ltil i-thorities lu^
n • e amll be too late to stop German parties entering Afghanistan
1 ersian authorities at Ispahan, Vezd, and Kermin have as vet shown ne ther
mclma ion nor ability to deal with German parties. \Ve a," therefore
action e ' i'^l'i’ 1 1 1 ’''‘"‘f 0 '' 1 ' 6 '! 16 '! 1 of Kofiat detachment, and trust that if militarv
.tion should become necessary instructions may be telegraphed promptly
considerable. *° ° 0Ver " <l f<,r ^ of intercepting £
^ e arc unable to express an opinion upon the possible effect of Marling’s
uianmal proposals, but our consular ollicials at Bushire, Shiraz, and Kerman
aieai j icon instructed to spend secret service money freely to
counteract German activity, and are. we believe, doing so.
p . " s far as ' ve . k n °w there is no question of our consular officers recruiting
oit ei,, or of their employing their “scorts against German parties, but they
ill be cautioned against doing so.