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File 3516/1914 Pt 14 'German War: Persia; general situation' [95r] (194/532)
The record is made up of 1 volume (261 folios). It was created in 8 Aug 1915-30 Nov 1915. 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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remain in these parts. It has been agreed to. Kindly ask the Vice-Consul
about this news, and let me know.
It is very necessary for us to hear and have such news.
If the last matter be true, the affair is being settled according to the
desire of the hostile Khans.
Enclosure No. 8.
Extract from a letter from Haidar Khan Hayat Daudi, Bandar Rig, to Mr. H. G. Chick,
C.I.E., Vice-Consul, Bushire.
A telegram which had been sent to Borasjun from Tehran, under the
signature of a certain Hassan, w as brought to Ismail Khan on the 13th. They
had asked for a receipt and answer. Ismail Khan said that the telegram was
not for him, and that he did not know r who Hassan was. He sent the telegram
back. I now enclose a copy of it. I think Hassan is Mustaufi-ul-Mamalik,
Prime Minister.
**** ****
The Darya Begi, Shaikh Jaffar and Ali Akbar Deb Buzurgi are still at
Borasiun, and"are misleading people and are inciting them to make disturb
ances They are writing everywhere. The day that they telegraphed tha
the Darya Begi and others should return, the Darya Begi wanted to leave
Mirza Muhammad Khan and Shaikh Jafrar went to the British telegraph
office at Borasjun, and consulted with the head of the Gendarmes, who was
also present at that meeting. They also sent for Darya Begi, and af e
consultation they prevented the Darya Begi from going to Shiraz, and sent
telegrams to Shiraz and Tehran. They have made tne British telegraph office
the place for their consnltalions : and meet there every day, and bring about
mischief, and at the instigation of Mirza Ali Kazerum telegraph to Shiraz and
Tehran. The Darya Begi up till the 13th was at Borasjun: alter that I have
no news of him.
Enclosure No. 9.
Extract from a letter from Haidar Kban Hayat Daudi, Zabit of Hayat Daud and Kharg,
Bandar Rig, to H. «. Chick, Esq., C.I.E., &c., &e., dated morning, the 24th Zi
Qa'adek 1333 (4th October 1915) (received 7th October).
Shaikh Jaffar got angry at my not answering the letter which he had
written to me from Boiasjnn, and has given an order giving license to every
one o take the lives and property of the people in our territory, and our sub
lets Now he has not written to Muhammad Khan, but he has written to
Ismail Khan, copv of which is enclosed. Ismail Khan replied as previously
to Darva Bek and Shaikh Jaffar saying that the Borasjums should be expelled
from his territory and leave it, and then he would dismiss his iorees, and see.
The Darya Begi has gone to the
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
, and taken up his abode theie.
Enclosure No. 9 (a).
Enclosures to Haidar Khan’s letter, dated the 24th Zi Qa’adeh 1333 (4th October 191b).
Telegram, dated the 22nd Zi Ga'adek 1333 (3rd October 1915).
From—The Kawam-ul-Mulk, Shiraz,
To—The Darya Begi, Borasjun.
You will receive the telegram sent you by His Excellency the Prime
Minister and the Minister for the Interior. You will of course act in com-
oliance with the telegraphic instructions and not allow any delaj in y ur
departure to Bushire and in carrying out the steps requued by your position.
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- Content
The volume concerns the situation in south-western Persia during the First World War. The main focus is the British occupation of Bushire.
The volume covers:
- Attack on British Consulate at Ispahan, which resulted in the wounding of the Consul and the death of one of the Sowars employed as escorts at the Consulate.
- German activity in Persia; movements of German agents.
- Turkish officers in Persia.
- Possible Russian occupation of north-western Persia.
- Attitude of Persian Government and situation at Tehran and in the rest of Persia.
- Information suggesting that maps of Persia, Afghanistan and Mesopotamia were made available by the Germans to the Turks.
- Rumoured arrest of British Consul at Shiraz.
- Appointment of Darya Begi as Governor of Gulf Ports.
- Alarm caused by advance of Russian troops.
- Evacuation of British Consul from Kermanshah.
- Arrest of British subjects from Shiraz.
- Demands of Khans in return for the release of Shiraz prisoners.
The volume’s principal correspondents are: Charles Marling, British Minister at Tehran; British Consuls at Kerman (C T Ducat), Sistan and Kain (Francis Beville Pridaux), Isfahan (G Grahame), Khorasan, Yazd, Lingeh [Bandar Lengeh] (W R Howson); Percy Cox, Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; Arthur Prescott Trevor, Deputy Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; Foreign Secretary to the Government of India; Thomas William Holderness and Arthur Hirtzel, 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. ; War Office; Charles Hardinge, Viceroy of India; Walter Langley and Maurice de Bunsen, Foreign Office; War Office; George Buchanan, British Ambassador in Russia; Darya Begi; the American Embassy in London; the Adjutant General in India.
There is a letter in French, from the French Embassy in London; there is a translation of a newspaper article, from Jam-i-Jam.
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- 1 volume (261 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 263; 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.
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- Title
- File 3516/1914 Pt 14 'German War: Persia; general situation'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:48v, 54r:89r, 95r:143v, 145r:263v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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