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File 3276/1912 Pt 2 ‘Persia - Zil-es-Sultan’ [289r] (261/278)
The record is made up of 138 folios. It was created in 6 May 1916-3 Jun 1919. 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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18 MAY 1916
MEMOimTOl BY MR. QLIPHAiNT .
Prince Ismael (the elder of the sons of the
Zil es Sultan) asked to see me to-day. He
expressed on his father’s hehalf the greatest
appreciation of his reception hy Sir Edward Grey
yesterday hut added that it was an occasion which had
furnished no opportunity for a '’business conversa-
tion" and the Zil therefore desired him to discuss
the situation with me for submission to Sir E. Grey.
Prince Ismael stated that the Zil was most
grateful for the Prs.200,000 advanced by His Majesty’s
Government for his journey expenses and desired that
the question of the one million francs loss which he
had incurred at Ispahan might be settled.
On my remarking that as yet Sir E. Grey had
been furnished with no detailed statement on the
subject, Prince Ismael replied that the situation
was as follows
His eldest brother, Prince Akbar (the present
Minister for Foreign Affairs), when compelled to
leave Ispahan at the beginning of the German rising
there, had raised a loan of Frs.400,000 from the
Hussian Bank at Ispahan to enable him to transact
various family matters and to escape. The remaining
Frs.600,000 were on account of jewellery and gold and
silver plundered from the strong boxes etc. left in
the
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The second part of the volume (folios 159 to 297) contains correspondence and notes about Prince [Masud Mirza] Zil-es-Sultan, following his return to Persia from political exile in France with the assistance of the British and Russian Governments. The correspondents are ministers and officials at the 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. and Foreign Office in London, the British Minister at Tehran and the British Ambassador to Russia. They discuss the exile’s financial situation, arrangements for his return to Persia and the recovery of his property from the Persian Government, his visit to Petrograd [St Petersburg] and his arrival in Tehran.
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