ملف رقم ٩٤٨ لسنة ١٩٠٩ "بلاد فارس: الوضع في الجنوب؛ حالة الطرق. الهجوم على السيد بيل. برنامج حرس الطرق". [و‎‎٣‎٥‎٩] (٧٤٤/٧٢٢)

India Office, London,
8th January 1909.
Secret,
No. 1.
To His Excellency the Right Honourable the Governor-
General of India in Council.
My Lord,
With reference to Your Excellency’s telegram of the 9th October
Proposals of the Political last > containing your views on the
Resident at Bushire as to the proposals of the Political Resident
situation in the Persian Gulf. Bushire as to the situation in
the Persian Gulf, I enclose, for the information of Your Excellency’s
Government, copy of correspon
dence* with the Foreign Office
showing the decision arrived at on
the several points raised in Major
Cox’s letter.|
2. (i.) Visit of Major Cox to
Tehran. —Authority shoidd be given
to Major Cox, as soon as a suitable
opportunity occurs for leaving the
Gulf, to proceed to Tehran for
purposes of consultation with His
Majesty’s Minister.
3. (ii.) British and Russian
Consular Establishments.—It is thought desirable to postpone considera
tion of this subject.
4. (iii.) Creation of a British Vice-Consulate at Lincgah. —The need
for the appointment is recognised, and the sanction of the Lords Com
missioners of His Majesty’s Treasury to its creation will be sought, on
the understanding that the cost will be equally divided between the
British and Indian Exchequers.
5. (iv.) Policing the Trade Routes.—Your view is approved that m
the present condition of Persia it is undesirable to take any action.
6. (v.) Customs Administration. —No action is at present called for.
7. (vi.) Inadequacy of the present naval arrangements in the Gulf.—
It is proposed to await the results of the Arms Traffic Conference at
Brussels and of negotiations with France as to Muscat.
* Letter from Foreign Office to India
Office, dated 26th August 1908, with
enclosures.
Despatch from Foreign Office to His
Majesty’s Ambassador at St. Petersburg,
dated 26th August 1908.
Despatch from His Majesty’s Ambassa
dor at St. Petersburg to Foreign Office,
dated 7th September 1908.
Letter from Foreign Office to India
Office, dated 12th October 1908, with
enclosures.
Letter from India Office to Foreign
Office, dated 11th 'November 1908, with
enclosure.
Letter from Foreign Office to India
Office, dated 1st December 1908.
Letter from India Office to Foreign
Office, dated 8th January 1909.
.t Dated the 6th June 1908. (Printed
as Annex to Enclosure No. 1.)