"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الجزء II. ج. ج. لوريمر. ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٧‎٦‎١] (١٢٦٢/٢٧٨)

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^ Baehdad, telegraphed to the Foreign OflSee in London and to Lord
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Curzon that the Muhammareh question again seemed likely to become
acute at the same time mentioning the complaints which the Shaikh
made at this time about breaches by the Persian Government of their
understanding with him. The Shaikh wanted to know definitely
'tain tk whether the British Government would support him in resisting
Mok encroachment, if necessary, by forbidding the Persian Government to
itaa^, employ force against him, should he on his part repudiate the under-
0WI1 in standing because the Persians had not observed it. Sir A. Hardinge
inlyb 1 ;, was in favour of some assurance being given, especially as Russia was
M gtin bidding for the Shaikh's good graces. Eventually, after receiving
faisaJt! the instructions of His Majesty's Government, Sir A. Hardinge wrote
to the Shaikh from Baghdad on the 24th December 1903 :
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Lord Lansdowne says that if, as he presumes is the case from my account of your
troulileiE Excellency's statement to me, the Persian Government is really attempting to repu
diate the arrangement made with you last year, I am authorised to say that you
tfl ; are in his opinion justified in opposing such attempt. He instructs me to remind yow
of the message which he sent you last year, and to add that you may rest assured
of the support of the British Government so long as you on your side observed
the conditions of the arrangement made between the Persian Government and
yourself.
witli regit He has authorised me to point out to that Government the necessity for respecting
ulterior si the conditions of the arrangement on their side, but I do not propose to do so until I
ii political! tear further from you, as I think it will be better in the interests of good relations
iver totj b 0 ^ 6611 the Persian authorities and yourself that our intervention should not be invoked
ch His I 0 ^ er 11168,118 adjusting matters between them and you have been exhausted.
reciprocal
In the next year Russian activity in 'Arabistan rather increased 1904.
ru( j]) al | than diminished. In January 1904 a party of three Russian travellers,
j_ er who gave themselves out to be entomologists and one of whom was a
well-known Russian emissary, M. Zaroudni, arrived at Nasiri from
^, Isfahan ; and in February they voyaged down the Bahmanshir, which
iththeJ ^ surve yed and sounded visiting Qubban and exploring 'Abbadan
ad I wo# I^nd, and eventually returning northwards by way of Dizful. In
langedfe March M. Passek, the Russian Consul-General at Bushehr, paid a
bveforvisit to Muhammareh and invested the Shaikh with the Order of St.
, and tkt Stanislaus of the first class. A document which accompanied this
wysM decoration recited, as reasons for its being granted, the Shaikhs enlightened
policy and his wisdom in consenting to the establishment of the Imperial
Persian Customs in his jurisdiction. M. Passek also made a tour to
entlj F Ahwaz and Shushtar. About the same time the Muhammareh A gency
[ndia; 1 of the Russian steamer line in the Persian Gulf was transferred from
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