ملف ١٩١٦/١٣٢٣ الجزء ١ "بلوشستان: الأوضاع المضطربة على الحدود الأنجلو فارسية. الإدارة المستقبلية لولايات مكران وسرهد وقلات" [و‎‎٢‎٧‎٧] (٨٩٦/٥٥١)

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Meenorsnd’jm No.3142.
Dated Quetta, the 17th September 1923.
Subieot ; _ Aff s i rg ln Mekrer•
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lease refer to your memorandum No 'HQ ff j * , '■ ' +■•
, . irioo •-.Jiy-i., dated the Blth >» J
August 1923, and telegram of fbo o„-
“ " ■ il - s *e nwiber d«t«l the I 2 fh S^tmbsr.
1 "e-W-e **Umt thereto referred „ s , ^
eelled for from the h.siet.at Potittoel Mekraa, hr, „
aware communications with Mekran have to on o ,
1 wve 10 through Gwadur or Paani and
are conseguentl; 7 ver- slow and some time must elapse before the receint i
of . reply free P,,)™. a.eld i, he desired to ^ „ i-rii ,t, r.ol.
to His Majestv's n-ister I Mi
■^-Id suggest that he may be informed that
version of “Hie sff^in o-?Trp-n ■k-pt +•>,/-> • jt
nr given by tbe Persian authorities is wholly at
variance to the facts of the case. The incident in Question was not a raid
hy Baluchis on our side of the border on tbe Persian Baluch caravan but
as reported in my memorandum No.17?4, dated the 3th May 1923, s
collision between the Mekran Levy Corns and a body of some eighty men
from Bampur in Persian Mekran who had entered British territory k armed
n defiance of regulations to the contrary and had refused to halt when
called upon to do so. ^.e incident took place within the limits of the
British and rot in Persian territory*
2. The opportunity mirht be taken to remind tbe Persian Government
of the state of anarchy and hostility to Mekran into which they have
allowed this portion of the border to lanse xid.e..,.,.list of offences
referred to, in Political Igent, Kalat , s memorandum No.1322, dated the
^th Man 19?,3, forwarded to you under my memorandum No.1811, dated the
10th May 1923, and to inform them that these men were members of those
tribes who had been raiding Mekran st intervals for a long time past:
that they came in^o British territory armed in defiance of regulations
to the contrary and resisted the order of the British authorities to
halt and were consequently taken for what the actions of their tribesmen
had given good, reason to suspect them to be and treated drasticallv,
^ould tbe Persian Government manifest its intention to insist on the
observance of the rules of international comity, on this part of the
v border
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