ملف رقم ١٣٧٧ لسنة ١٩٠٥، جزء ٣، "الحدود الفارسية البلوشستانية: مسألة بيران وكاشا" [و‎‎٢‎٤‎٠] (٢٠٩/١٥٩)

Pir - a ? Ziarat i w 1 1 ^oTit incurring any extra expenditure to Government.
IheChaga! Levy establishment includes a post of “ Jemadar of camels ” at
Lalbandm on Rs. 20 per mensem.^ This appointment was apparently created in
e early days of the route when it was often necessary for travellers to obtain
tresh camels at Dalbandin.
With the introduction of the new camel contract whereby the contractors
are bound to supply camels straight through to Seistan, the necessity for a
Government camel agent at Dalbandin appears to me to have disappeared.
I have, therefore, subject to the Hon’ble the Agent to the Governor-
General’s approval, done away with the appointment and utilized the pay of
the Jemadar (Rs. 20} for two extra Levy footmen (on Rs. 10 per mensem) who
have already taken up their quarters at Piran Ziarat.
3. Eor the second post at Kacha river I propose finding a temporary estab
lishment in the following way:—
It is proposed that six men with a thorough knowledge of the country should
be enlisted locally at Robat as guides for service in the new first class levies.
It will be sometime before the detachment of the new levies, who are now
being enlisted in Mastung, can be equipped and made ready for Robat. The
men whom it is proposed to enlist locally as guides could, however, be enlisted at
once at Robat, and I would suggest sending two or more of them without delay
to reside at the Kacha river post until some better arrangement can be made.
I should be ^lad to know if the above proposals meet with the approval of
the Hon’ble the Agent to the Governor-General.
Extract from the Seistan Consular diary No. 3 for the period 14th to 19th January 1907 .
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Regarding the Piran incident, the Mumtahin said his action was forced on
him by M. Nikrassof. The latter, he
The Piran incident. stated, had brought and exhibited to him
a map, and had pointed out that encroachments were being made on Persian
territory at Piran and Kacha. The Mumtahin went on to say that he had
referred the matter to Lieutenant Daukes, who, in his reply, had admitted
that Piran and Kacha were Persian territory, and had informed him that the
people settled there were Afghans. The Mumtahin had accordingly taken
necessary steps to re-establish Persian rights. On my asking him whether,
now that he had been made acquainted with the true facts, he was prepared
to restore the status quo, he replied, firstly, that the matter was being settled
at Tehran, and, secondly, that he had telegraphed his resignation and could
therefore take no further action.
As regards the alleged admission of Persian rights to Piran and Kacha,
it is only necessary to say, that without specially admitting the Persian
claims in the preamble of his letter of the 5th November, Lieutenant Daukes
referred to “ Piran and Kacha in Persian territory.” As half of Piran at any
rateseems to belong to Persia, the sentence admits of interpretation m two
wavs The admission, such as it was, has been subsequently corrected and
cannot of course be accepted as a reasonable excuse for the Mumtahin s refusal
restore the status quo. , ...
Wednesday, 16th January.—Ite Mumtahin, who arrived here with an
Anglophil reputation, seems lately to have
Mamtahin-us-suitana’s behaviour. \)Qen. doing his best to cause a different
impression.
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TTi. storv about M. Nekrassof having put him up to the Piran business
a 1S S - ^ IvoPIp pcmcoiallv in view of the mutual orders lately sent to
frt fndTu^ian consular Officers in Persia, that I thought, if the matter
the notice of the Russian Consul, it might prove the means of
emoving”some misunderstanding, I therefore spoke to M. Nekrassof on th e