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PERSIA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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December 27, 1928.
Sir R. Clive to Sir Austen Chamberlain.—{Received December 27.)
HIS Maiesty’s representative presents his compliments to His Majesty s
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and has the honour to transmit
herewith copy of a despatch from His Majesty’s High Commissioner for Iraq,
Bagdad dated the 13th November, 1928, and of a note to the Persian Government,
dated the 1st December, 1928, on the subject of an incident which took place in
September on the Shatt-al-Arab.
Tehran, December 1, 1928.
Enclosure 1 in No. 1.
Sir H. Dobbs to Mr. Parr.
Bagdad, November 13, 1928.
k 1F j HAVE the honour to inform you that on the 10th October the Administrative
Inspector. Basra, reported the following incident as being typical of many simi a
incidents that occur on the Shatt-al-Arab .
“On the 21st September (some time has been spent in confirming the
information! an Iraq police patrol launch observed a man crossing from the
Iraq to the Persian side in a Lall ballam, and caHed upon him to stoPt Lpon
this a group of about thirty people on the Persian side fired four shots at tne
police one of whom fired two shots in the air (apparently pa the iope
Sian would thereupon stop). The people on the Persian side “ h ^ts
at the police, and said the Persians were shortly sending
Four days after this incident, the Persians sent a patrol of three or four reg
soldiers, who patrol the river in a launch at night,
2. It has been ascertained on further enquiry that this incident occurred in t^e
neighbourhood of Qata, and that the Persian p^ro was came ou Y following
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should therefore be obliged if you wordd ^authorities to
Persian Government, and request them to instruct tne.r in Iraq
discontinue such patrols either on this stretch ol tne river u
waters. j have, &c.
H. DOBBS,
ti : Qclrinr) ar inr JtCIQ.
Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
Sir R. Clive to Pakrevan.
Tehran, December 1,1928.
M. le Gerant, . ^ nn tipp an incident which took
place 1 Th/tauM anS is reported as isung typical of
many similar incidents which occur m tha re 0
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