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I learn as to general agreement above alluded to that among its chief
points will be cancellation of Persian debt, tariff revision and subsidy of war.
I have intimated that opportunity for big demands which might have been
listened to two months ago has been lost and that I was sure that certainly
in Petrograd suggestion as regards debt would be rejected and very likely in
London also.
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Telegram P., No. 223-D. S., dated the 10th January 1916.
•p rom The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign aud Political
Department, Delhi,
To—His Britannic Majesty's Consul for Sistan and Kain.
(Repeated to Tehran.)
Please see your telegram December Tlth, No. BTO-C. Orders have issued
for despatch by Quetta arsenal of 50 additional M. L. E. rifles with 100 rounds
of ammunition per rifle and equipment.
As regards your telegram of December 10th, No. 311-C.,_ Government of
India find it difficult to judge of defensive measures necessary m Sistan, parti
cularly in view of absence" of news since evacuation of Kerman as to what
is happening further west. Should you now or later consider it desirable to
increase number of Baluchi levies you are authorised to do so at your dis
cretion up to a limit of a further 200 men.
You should keep Government of India fully informed of action taken.
It should however, be distinctly understood that addition sanctioned is for
men to be employed on local purposes only and that for the present recruits
should on no account be enlisted from Persian military or gendarmerie
establishments.
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Telegram ?., No. 11-C., dated (and received) the 10th January 1916.
p r0I n His Britannic Majesty's Consul for Sistan and Kain,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart
ment, Delhi.
It is reported by the telegraph Gholam at Dehaneh Baghi that Germans
have arrived at Bam accompanied by a Jnumber of Sowars. Gholams at
Pahreh have been made prisoners and taken to ? Bam. Between Pahreh and
Bam telegraph line has been cut.
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Telegram P., No. 63, dated (and received) the 10th January 1916.
From—The Deputy Political Resident in the Persian Gulf,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart
ment, Delhi.
(Addressed Tehran, repeated Basrah.)
Please see my immediately preceding telegram. At the same time Soulet
also sent a telegram addressed to His Majesty the Shah, copy of which was sen
to Governor by Deputy Governor, Kazerun. Soulet states in it that he hears tnax
Persian Government is taking hostile action against the Turkish Government.
He says he cannot believe this, but if anyone has advised His Majesty to hght a
Mohametan Government he is a traitor. Neither he nor any of his tribesmen
can serve such a Government if report is true and he will consider mmsei
responsible to it no longer.