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PERSIA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[October 25.]
Section 10 .
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No. 1. S^i- ^
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Sir G. Barclay to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received October 25.)
(No. L ) Tehran, October 1, 1909.
’ WITH reference to your telegram No. 424 of the 18tli ultimo, I have the honour
to state that I have now received a copy of Major Cox’s despatch No. 7, Commercial, of
the 18th July last, and I transmit to you herewith copy of a note which I have addressed
to the Persian Government on the subject of the insecurity of the southern roads
and the levy of illegal exactions by the tribesmen, especially on the Bushire-Shiraz
r ° llte i S poke to Sardar Assad, Minister of the Interior, the other day in the sense of
this note, and he told me he was engaged in preparing a scheme of road guards which
he felt confident would restore order on the roads. He promised to acquaint me m due
course with the details.
1 have, &c.
G. BARCLAY.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Sir G. Barclay to Sardar Assad.
Excellency, 1909.
BY order of His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs I have
the honour to draw the serious attention of the Persian Government to the deplorable
condition of the trade routes in Southern Persia, and more especially to that between
Bushire and Shiraz. This latter route has been lately almost entirely closed to
commerce owing to disturbances, robberies, and illegal exactions. re erence o e
Bushire customs statistics of the first five months of the current year will show what
disastrous results this state of things has had for the Persian treasury, iu am pnnei
pally concerned now with its effect on British interests, and it is my u y o impress on
the Persian Government that the losses incurred by British commerce owing to the
failure of the Persian Government to maintain order on the roads m the south aie a
matter of grave concern to His Majesty’s Government. I am to ur S e J 0 " ^
necessity of taking the necessary steps to render these routes secure, and m particular
I am to insist on the suppression of the iHegal exactions on the roads in accordance
with article 4 of the Anglo-Persian commercial convention oll9UcS.
Apart from the robberies to which goods are subjected P| s ™f ffe*®
Shiraz-Bushire route, the accompanying statement of i ega distance of
Bushire and Kazevim will show your Excellency that t ey amoun , ,
no more than 100 miles, to a sum of 15 krans per mu e load, or over 1 00 faans per
ton. I am to insist on the removal of this heavy and illegal burden from which But .
trade is the chief sufferer, without delay. ^ bave &c
G. BARCLAY.
List of rahdari charges (enclosed in Major Cox's No. 7, Commercial, July 18,1909, to Sir E. Grey).
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