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pany ” and several British Indian deserters who are still wearing their uniforms.
Refused to forward a letter from Biach to Khalifah Khair Muhammad.
Islam A7«m.—Approached Biach by letter and opened up negotiations with
him. Said he was unable to cut the telegraph line himself but would get Khalifab
Khair Muhammad to do it, and it was done.
Nusrat-ul-MM. —German agent at Bam. Acted as forwarding agent for
telegrams and letters.
Nawab Khan Bahmari. —Showed friendship towards Biach but offered little
assistance.
Persian Balueh Sardars. —Islam Khan was the only Chief who would enter into
; any negotiations with Biach.
Machine guns, rifles and ammunition.
Machine guns. —None with the Southern Persian parties. Biach’s instru
ments were taken by the Persians as machine guns and bombs. All machine guns *
destined for these parties were seized by the Turks at Kermanshah.
Rifles and ammunition. —Mostly German. Ammunition very poor. Wass-
muss took a very large share of ammunition, about a million and a half rounds.
The Baluchis have come to an end of all their ammunition and it was noticed that
Bahrain Khan’s men were armed with Lee-Metfords.
Money and Miscellaneous .—Germans have probably spent a million and a
half sterling including that brought in by Marshal von der Goltz in Persia.
Wireless .—The whole installation is believed to be in Kerman. * Biach only
knew of one set which was intended for Afghanistan. Received daily war news,
heard our wireless working, but did not attempt to decipher it. Wireless has not
been working for the last two or more months.
Cost of attacks on Bushire. —Each attack cost about £6,000.
Expected result of Afghanistan expedition. —It was confidently hoped that the
Germans would be able to buy the Amir with gifts of large sums of money and a
huge display of various kinds of presents. Afghanistan was to declare war on the
Allies, with the hoped-for result that India would rise and the Afghans would
occupy Turkistan while we were quelling the trouble in India.
Our troops in Eastern Persia .—Very little was known of our dispositions
and numbers, in fact Biach remarked that they could never trust their information
and were working in the dark.
Karachi, ^ E. C. WITHERS, Lieutenant,
7th May 1916. ) Intelligence Officer, Persian Gulf.
Analysis of Letter No. 64, dated May 6th, 1916.
From Intelligence Officer, Persian Gulf.
Letter under consideration.
Comment.
Reference
of
Comment.
Has not served in the Austrian Army
Stated by Winckelmann to be liable to
40624.
Military Service.
Came in contact with Dr. Pugin at Ispahan.
Pugin is a notorious German agent. At
Ispahan in Febiuary 1915.
Who’s Who, Persia.
From Ispahan proceeded to Yazd and Ker-
Our information was that he was at
Who’s Who, Persia.
man.
Shiraz in July 1915, but he perhaps
proceeded to Yazd via Shiraz.
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