"تقرير الإدارة عن المقيمية السياسية في الخليج الفارسي للأعوام ١٩١٥-١٩١٩" [ظ‎‎٥‎٥] (٣٩٦/١١٧)

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PERSIAN GULF ADMINISTRATION EEPOET
Kerman, and as it appeared that he had a peculiar intimacy with most of the
principal characters of Baluchistan and was in the habit of travelling about
from one to another, not as a mendicant but with horse and rifle, and was
well-qualified to be a political agent, it was considered advisable to make him
move on further afield. He was deported to Basrah in Isovember.
Apparently a bastard Persian Baluch, though for the purposes of begging
he gave himself out as a British iLdian
Ahmad Dashtyan. subject; made his appearance in Ker
man in October. Prom enquiries it appeared that he had once served in the
Anglo-Persian Oil Company, that he iiad bem for a short time, in 1915, in
the employment of Wassmuss at Behbehan and that he had thence made his way
here via Yezd. As he was a Persian subject and there was nothirg definifc'e
against him and he seemed too stupid to be dangerous, steps w r ere taken to see
that he carried out his professed intention of proceeding on pilgrimage
to Meshed.
It has been found impossible to make headway with the case. It is
. . , universally stated here that the actual
Murderers of Farukhsnan, cousin of the Agna t tt u • p ■,
murderers were Uasnim, son of Ghulam
Hussain, and Saiyid Masballa, son of Saiyid Hassan. Beyond that, there are
varying tales as to the connection of other persons with crime It may he that
the Iftikbar-us-Sadat lent himself to forwarding the plot as believed by Colonel
Ducat, but if this is a fact, it would be absolately impossible to prove it. He was
already a persona grata with the South Persia Rifles when His Majesty's Consul
arrived, and he has made himself useful in various ways. He is not a man
to place faith in, but he is at present strongly and usefully pro-British and
will probably remain so as long as the British are dominant. The late Hono
rary Vice-Consul was, it is believed, inimical to him and to various others with
whom the relations of the Consulate in past years might otherwise perhaps
have been better.
Information has lately been received that the accused Hashim is in impri
sonment in Ispahan.
The following men who played an active part in the disturbances in
Noted Democrafs concerned in the di.tnrb.nce, German are imprisoned in SUraz, where
»t Kerman in 1915, their cases are being investigated under
the supervision of His Majesty's Consul :—
1. Mirza Hussain Khan, Rais-i-Tahdid.
2. Mirza Ghulam Hussain, Mudarris, and Editor of the " Kerman."
3. Abdul Qasim Shimr.
4. Nazim-ut-Tujjar.
5. Agha Mehdi, son of the last,
6. Amin-ul-Islam.
7 Muhammad, Farrash of the Germans.
8. Mirza Agha Ahmad, Editor of the " Dehqan."
9. Mirza JVluhammad Abul Eath.
10. Mirza Muhammad Hussain, Baluch.
11. bultan Muhammad Khan, of the late Gendarmerie.
12. Mustafa Khan.
I andT* imi>0I ' tant 0f lhe ab0Te is No - 11 and after probably Nos. 1,
Some stir was caused in the town, in October, by tbe announce-
The Majd-ui-isiam. ment that this man was being sent
tW rvf t> Q i' 0 i- iv/r '4? tt i i ^ own fi'om Tehran to occupy the
of his own and i 1 f S ^ ^ distinguished, turbulent career
0W "' a :i 13 b f ro ^ er ° f the ■^ mm "ul-Islam mentioned in the last para-
Democratcamp^ q -' 6 P ractlce ' t,le one brother joined the Germaa
Deculiarlt Tw^nn twV f oth er sa t on the fence in Tehran It is also
indiscreet taste for tlu- a i? 6 to '"''"cb should be added an
whom the u^brWW .f ^ ' Sh0uld be held to P oiut out as the one man to
tiT ^ upbringing of the rising generation could be safclv pnfrn«fpd On
the other hand, a serious disquaU&ation Iron, the l^alSan pS of-yie^