'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [‎38v] (81/610)

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and secured on the Southern Customs revenues, and all other
Customs receipts in so far as these are, or shall be, at disposal
of the Persian Government—the loan to be available to the
Persian Government as required, after the British Financial
Adviser shall have taken up his duties at Tehran.
On the same date assurance was given, by letter, of the will
ingness of the British Government to co-operate with the Persian
Government for realization, when practicable, of —
1. Revision of treaties actually in force.
2. Persia’s claims for compensation for material damage
suffered at the hands of other belligerants.
3. Justifiable rectifications of Persian frontiers.
The second of these desiderata was rendered more explicit by
a further letter establishing that Britain will not claim from
Persia the cost of maintenance of the British troops which had
been sent to Persia, nor will the Persian Government claim any
idemnity for damage caused by these troops—but these stipula
tions do not affect claims of individuals and private institutions.
Within a few days of the conclusion of these important ne
gotiations, the Shah hastened his departure for a visit to Europe,
on which he had long been bent, in order to be able to pass
through the Caucasus before the British evacuation of Baku.
All arrangements had been made for the journey, and the Valiahd
had been called from Tabriz to represent His Majesty in the
interval. The Shah, who was attended by his uncle, Nusrat-
us-Sultaneh, and by his cousin, Nusrat-ud-Dauleh (then Minister
for Foreign Affairs), and by a small retinue, left Enzali on
August 15th, and proceeded via Baku and Batum to Constanti
nople ; where he met his father, the ex-Shah Muhammad Ali,
who had retired to that city, in July, when Odessa was
threatened by the Bolsheviks.
His Majesty then proceeded to France, where he spent the
greater part of his leisure. He spent a few days in England,
after an official visit to the King, in October.
Meantime the Anglo-Persian agreement of August 9th had
been published, and had met with much criticism* abroad, but
with a fair reception in Persia. The Ministry, however, received
information, early in September, of a plot to agitate against it,
and promptly seized the leaders of the movement—Muhtashim-
us-Sultaneh, Mustashar-ud-Dauleh, Munltaz-ud-Dauleh, Mumtaz-
ul-Mulk, and Mu’in-ut-Tujjar—and incarcerated them at _
Kashan. There was no further overt opposition in the country
to the agreement.
* in America and France. The French Minister in Tehran did not hesitate
to intrigue against it.