ملف ١٩١٦/١٣٢٣ الجزء ١ "بلوشستان: الأوضاع المضطربة على الحدود الأنجلو فارسية. الإدارة المستقبلية لولايات مكران وسرهد وقلات" [و‎‎٢‎٥‎٦] (٨٩٦/٥٠٩)

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In any further communication on
this subject, please quote
1X190/207/34.
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26th November 1923.
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in reply to your letter No. E 4278 of tte 20th instant,
relative to the disposal of the Mirjmva-Duzdap section of the
Ilushki extension railway, I am directed by the Marquess Curzon
of Medieston to transmit to you, to be laid before Viscount Peel,
the accompanying copy of a letter which is being addressed to
the Treasury.
2. I am to explain, with reference to paragraph 5 of your
letter, tnat the last sentence of paragraph 2 of Foreign Office
letter of October 24th was not intended to imply that there was
no relation between the two questions of the disposal of the
railway and the restoration of order in the Sarhad and Persian
Baluchistan, but merely to deprecate any attempt to make the
disposal oi the railway conditional upon the prior restoration
of order in these provinces, which, even if undertaken immediately,
must inevitably entail a considerable delay. Ihe importance
attached by the Secretary of State to the suppression of disorder
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in*the provinces 01 south-eastern Persia will be realised from the
| f^fruetions conveyed to Sir P. loraine in Foreign Office despatch
Ko > 466 of October 2Srd, a copy of which was enclosed in Foreign
I am,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
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' Under Secretary of state,
J> India office.