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Endoksement from His Britannic Majesty’s Consul, Sistan and Kain,
No. 415/2/5, DATED THE 2ND OCTOBER 1931.
His Britannic Majesty’s Consul for Sistan and Kain presents Ihis compliments to
the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign and Political Department,
New Delhi, and has the honour to transmit the undermentioned document:
Sistan Consulate Diary for the month of September 1931.
Diary of His Majesty’s Consul, Sistan and Kain for September 1931.
85. His Majesty’s Consular Officers .—
Bis Majesty’s Consul was for a few days
the guest of His Excellency Shaukat-ul-
Mulk at the latter’s house at Ab-i-Tursh,
some 40 miles from Birjand.
86 . Persian Baluchistan and the
Sarhad .—Abdul Hussain, of Bemishk
looted another caravan during the first
week of September, carrying off 60
camels. It is rumoured that on the
return of the General Officer Command
ing from Tehran, operations will com
mence against him, in which both the
Kwash and Kerman troops will be em
ployed.
During the absence of the General
Officer Commanding and Military
Governor, who has proceeded on two
months’ leave to Tehran, Yawar Aziz
Dllah Khan of the Khusravi Fauj
(Camelry) will be acting Governor.
Umar Khan, son of the late Dost
Mohammad Khan is living at Shasto.
He has taken possession of all his
late father’s land and is said to be
popular with the tribesmen.
The newly-raised Amnieh in the
Sarhad have been given uniforms. The
men previously dismissed have received
six months pay of the yea v s salary due
to them.
A report has been received to the
effect that Habib Ullah Khan, Nawab of
Kharan, has put forth a claim to the
greater part of Eastern Persian Baluehis-
(I tan based on documentary evidence that
bb his Grandfather Azad Khan ruled there
fifty years ago. The General Officer
Commanding is said to have received
urgent instructions from Tehran to send
a reliable messenger to the Nawab offer
ing a substantial sum if he will with
draw his claim.
87. Afghan Affairs.—Bciorc leaving
for a trip to^Mesbed the Afghan Consul
at Sistan summoned all Afghans to the
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Consulate and made them sign, some
document to the effect that they recog
nised Nadir Shah as King.
88 . Soviet Affairs .—A telegram is
said to have been received at Zabul
stating that a Russian Consul would
very shortly arrive there and that two
Russians Trading concerns would open
branches at the same time. A Zabul
trader who works for the Russians and
is in Meshed also wrote to his son in
Zabul that he would return in the com
pany of the Russian Consul shortly.
89. Military Affairs .—-ISO men of the
Zabuli Fauj were sent from Zahidan to
Kwash on 8 th September.
A compounder in the Military hospital
at Mirjawa and two soldiers from
Kwash deserted to British territory
between 15th and 18th S eptember.
The Conscription Committee com
menced operations at Birjand on 28th
September. It is reported that the
regulation; are being more strictly en
forced than last year when large num
bers evaded service on inadequate
grounds.
On September 5th a Persian soldier at
Zahidan in charge of a prisoner demand
ed to be carried in a lorry belonging to
an Indian, going to Kundi. The lorry
was full and the owner suggested he
might travel in another lorry of his
which was being loaded and would follow
later. The lorry then started and the
soldier fired his rifle—apparently in the
air—although some witnesses believed
the bullet hit the lorry. His Majesty’s
Vice-Consul protested immediately and
the Cantonment Commandant assured
him that the man had been severely
reprimanded and that there would be no
further incidents of the nature.
90. Communications .—The Persians
are said to be anxious to push on the
Letter No 3,5.8
Dated 5 NOV 1931
Receivea 23NOV. 1931