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1903 and arrived on the Sistan border in the following month, having
been joined on the w’ay by the Afghan commissioner; and in March
Colonel McMahon entered Persian Sistan and came into direct com
munication with the Persian commissioners. Meanwhile the survey of
the whole disputed area was being pushed on, and in November Colonel
McMahon formally delivered his boundary award to the Persian and
Afghan commissioners. Some delay ensued; but eventually the award
was accepted by the Afghan and Persian Governments, and the line
from Enh-i-Malik Siah to the Siah Koh was demarcated by pillars along
its entire length at the end of December 1904. In February 1905
Colonel McMahon formally delivered to the Persian and Afghan com
missioners the final maps and arbitral statements (No. XX) relating to
the Sistan boundary, as also the detailed list of the boundary pillars
showing the position and nature of each pillar.
In November 1904 Mr. L. W. Dane, Foreign Secretary to the Gov
ernment of India, was sent on a mission to Kabul. Mr. Dane reached
Kabul on the 12th December, and on the 21st March 1905 concluded,
on behalf of the British Government, a Treaty (No. XXI) with the Amir
Habibulla Khan, continuing the agreements which had existed between
the British Government and Abdur Rahman Khan.
In December 1904 Amir Habibulla Khan deputed his eldest
son, Sardar Inayatulla Khan, to India to pay a visit to the Viceroy.
Lord Curzon received the Sardar at Calcutta, and he returned to Kabul
in January 1905.
The full investigations which had been made during his long stay in
Sistan had enabled Colonel McMahon to mature his views regarding the
irrigation rights of both Persia and Afghanistan: and, the boundary
question having been settled, he called upon the Persian and Afghan
commissioners to submit statements of their cases in respect of these
rights and, after consideration of their respective representations, he
delivered his water award in April 1905 (No. XXII). The Amir
accepted the arbitral decision with one reservation; but, up to the end of
1930, the Persian Government had still not notified its acceptance.
From the 2nd January to the 7th March 1907, the Amir visited India.
On his arrival, with a suite of 1,100 men, he was accorded a salute of
31 guns, and in a telegram of welcome from King Edward he was for
the first time addressed as “His Majesty ”.
An Anglo-Russian Convention, relating to Persia, Afghanistan and
Tibet, was signed at St. Petersburg in August 1907, and ratified in the
following month [see Part I, Persia, No. XXI). As regards Afghanis
tan, His Majesty’s Government disclaimed any intention of altering the
political status or (subject to the observance of the Treaty of 1905) of
interfering in the administration, or annexing any territory, of Afgha
nistan, and engaged to use her influence in Afghanistan in no manner