File 3516/1914 Pt 5 'German War: Persia; situation in Arabistan 1915' [‎13v] (31/404)

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t, thlS cheqUe Sot thTOa Z h with the ot,i er 9 , and I received Kran.
11,918-80 Government money (about £200) in cash. This sum in silrerS
(notes were no longer current) was too heavy to take with me on a W
journey, so I asked Mr. O. Brandly of the Oriental Carpet Manufacturer
a suiss subject, to take it over together with my surplus private cash ami to
give me drafts op Bombay in exchange. Ue a greed and^t once took “tav
the coin, which it would hare been very unwise to have kept in mv Hn ^
overnight. Later, Mr. Brandly told me that he had given the
“ Consul ’’ an undertaking that he would not take over any British Govern 11
ment cash or property. But I persuaded him to accede to my request and
gave him a letter to cover him in which I referred to the cash as my private
funds. He then gave me drafts on London and on Bombav On Tnesrli,,
night the whole of the British Colony slept at the Consulate andalllhe
l l, gS a ge was assembled there, the Governor-General supplying a laro-e Bikh
tiari guard. Mirza Ahmed Khan, the Superintendent oT perlian Teleg^nh '
had been seized and imprisoned by the “ Millet ” two or three days before U.is’
I sent 0 the Governor-General and asked him to do what be could for him
and before leaving Kerman had the satisfaction of knowing that he wss
released and was then in the Governor’s palace. Mirza Ahmed Khan had
been very true to us and gave us much useful information. He consistentlv
efused to pei mit the German to send messages in cypher, as only properly
accredited Consuls are permitted to do, although he was cornnelh^ hv tl7
Minister of Telegraphs, Tehran, to accept messages in cypher fo? the German
f! • C °i nt fr r ^ re e ulatlon s of the Persian Telegraph Administration I
think Mirza Ahmed Khan’s services worthy of some recognition at i ' i
of the British Government. He already holds a British Medal for ffoo^ work
on construction of the Central Persian Line. g d 0 k
On Wednesday morning, the 15th instant, the Consul formally forhndp mo
.tempt to go to Sistan. savino* flint tu^ i* „ .,. me
to attempt to go’to Sistan, sayi^-tKaV“i,m^^7‘^Xl
v He 8 ^ 'nto certain disaster i?
Baluchis and
The Governor-General also sent to me savino> thqt ™ x
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and again his men, not having camels, could no? proceed beyond B^m 1191 tbem ’
he would 1 ' proceed' tmS ^ Wh ° had
travelling together in that direeUon ’ Bu^ i found ^^7 ^reed to onr
to arrange to go by that route and was comneUedtot, f n K u aTk
the English Colony. ^ lta t0 &0 to ^ uri der Abbas with
It amounted to this that the Govern nr -11 . v
escort, and that all of us had to travel in the same direction. pr ° Vlde 0nIy one
sent to me for the keys of mystoief&« t 7" 'Tf the 1Vle " ra P h Office
would give me a receipt for them. This they refused 6 Thf^ Up if they
the Governor-General asking him what was^to he ,1,7 Tl “ ere “P on 1 "’rote to
responsible for the property at the Telegraph Offie e d ^^1^1 W t ? 1° P held
sorry he could not help me, but that the “ Millet»» e P lle . t | that he was
we must all do as they requested, therefore it was advlsabl^ ? ' P ° Werful > and
over the keys. I did so, telling the committee wh ,717 w f e t0 hatld
forcibly took possession of other people’s property without 757 ° f pe ° pl , e wh °
ledgment. P ^ tit giving an acknow-
Mr. O. Brandly, the Swiss subject mentioned above Wi i,
mumcation with Herr Zugmayer, I understand at the reon. J J ' 1 7 COm '
with reference to our departure and Zugmayer had nromk^i 7 7 Ur Co " sul >
his best to prevent any attack on “ the women and oUldren ” inheh^t'e 1 ' 1 ^
About midnight on Wednesday niirlit Mr Brnnrllvr . S00n *
nephew, came to the Consulate to say that he had received hy his
Zugmayer to the effect that he could not understand why the British 0 C
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