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Coll 28/8 ‘Persia; Diaries; Sistan & Kain, April 1927 – 1933’ [148v] (307/434)
The record is made up of 1 volume (213 folios). It was created in 25 Jul 1927-25 Oct 1933. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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evidently (as no aeroplane has since been
reported over any part of this district) via
Herat.
17. The Afghan Consul, Mir Mohd.
Ali, returned from his visit to Delhi and
Dahore towards the end of January and
has since kept the Consulate open on
behalf of the Kandahar Government.
The connection between the Afghan and
Soviet Consulates is now closer than ever.
Frequent couriers pass to and fro
between Sistan and Chakansur and the
two Consuls are continually meeting. It
is known that no funds have been received
from Kandahar and it is probable that
the Kussians are financing the Afghan
Consulate. Pro-Amanullah propaganda
is rife, but the feeling in Sistan is general
that the Russian cause (such as it w T as)
has suffered a serious reverse as a result
of recent events in Afghanistan.
their whole capital and credit in
rolet lorries are faced with ruin.
Chev-
Loads
Communications.
31 ails .—
18. Sarkassaintz Motor
Reference paragraph 6 .
One of the Benz mail lorries was
recently overwhelmed in a fiord five
miles on the Meshed side of Qain
town. The driver and mechanic
were saved but twm passengers, a Russian
w r oman and an Armenian, w^ere drowned
and all the mails except one bag for
Birjand w r ere lost.
19. A further heavy drop in motor
transport rates has taken place and nine
out of ten of the misguided persons,
mostly British subjects, w r ho. have sunk
are now being carried from Buzdap to
Birjand at Krans 90 per Kharvar >•, ,d
Krans 15 for the return journey. By
putting twice the proper load on his
lorry, and owner-driver thus receives 5
annas per mile for the journey to Birjand
and back, a sum which barely pays for
the petrol and oil consumed and the food
of the driver and cleaner. Needless to
say, w hat with the inferior quality of the
lorries, the inefficiency w r ith which they
are handled, the badness of the roads and
the staggering loads which are carried,
few r of them complete half a dozen trips to
Meshed before breaking down finally and
utterly. A Persian Official recently took
.22 days to reach Sistan from Meshed,
and changed his lorry five times on the
way. But nothing stops the sale of
Chevrolet lorries, to the exclusion of more
worthy makes. The agent of General
Motors Ltd., Mr. N. A. Mullick, has got
100 more coming and expects.to sell them
as easily as ever.
British Subjects.
P. B.
manag-
Carpet
20 . Lieutenant-Colonel V.
Williams, D.S.O., LA., (retired),
ing director of the Standard
Company in East Persia, died of pneu
monia at Karachi on 27th Pebruary.
Steps have been taken to keep his per
sonal property at Birjand in safe custody
pending the receipt of instructions from
his relatives.
Sisr an ;
The 5th March 1929..
C. P. SKRINE, I.C.S.,
His Majesty’s Consul for Sistan and Kain.
Distribulwtion as Usual-
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Printed copies of monthly reports submitted by the British Consul at Sistan and Kain [Ka’īn] (Clarmont Percival Skrine; Major Clive Kirkpatrick Daly).
The reports provide information on: the region’s trade; locust observations and movements (occasionally appearing as an appendix to the main report); affairs of the Persian Government and Persian military ; the movements of British consular officials; local affairs at the region’s towns, including Sistan, Birjand, Sarhad (in Persian Baluchistan) and Duzdap [Zahedan]; roads and railways; Afghan affairs; the activities of Soviet Russian Government representatives in the region, including the dissemination of Soviet propaganda; and the movements of foreigners, in particular Europeans and Russians.
Minute papers are enclosed with each report, which frequently contain handwritten notes made by India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. staff, making reference to numbered paragraphs from the report.
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- 1 volume (213 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The monthly reports are arranged into subjects and paragraphs, with each new subject given a number. For the years 1928 to 1931 the subjects begin at 1 for the first subject in the first report for January, and run until the end of the December report. From 1932, the subject numbers restart at 1 in each monthly report.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 209; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers; nor does it include the four leading and ending flyleaves.
An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 35-209; these numbers are also written in pencil and circled, but are crossed through.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:88v, 89v:133v, 134v:185v, 187r:203r, 204r:209v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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