ملف ٣٥١٦\١٩١٤ الجزء ٧ "الحرب الألمانية: بلاد فارس" [و‎‎٢‎٠] (٥١٩/٤٤)

From Major Trevor, 19th November 1915.
(Addressed to Teheran, repeated to Foreign, repeated to Secretary of State
for India, and Cox,)
708 0. My telegram Xo. 705 0. Darya Begi, lias handed me a letter from
the Governor of Kasarun enclosing copy of a telegram from Kawam to him as
follows: ‘ To-day, second Muharram, the gendarmarie occupied and
seized the citadel and government garden, the police department, and all
fortified positions of town, and then warned British Consul, the Bank
Manager, and the Superintendent of Telegraphs that they must leave for
Bushire within an hour. Am hour later they arrested Consul and all foreign
subjects and after taking them to barracks they were sent in the direction of
Bushire. I telephoned gendarmerie asking them for reason and they
answered that it was done by order of Government and that Persia had
entered into war.
“ To-day also they have totally cut wire to Teheran ; I have no informa
tion at all. Also there is no wire by which orders can reach me from my
Government.”
1 hear from native sources that a detachment of about 40 gendarmes
escorted Consul of Shiraz and party to Borazjun ; that there are about five
Englishmen and four ladies there ; that the party had to come by a devious
route to avoid Soulet who tried to intercept them, and that hostile Khans
proposed to send Englishm,en to Ahram for better security.
Darya Begi has also sent me a letter from Shaikh of Jafar acknowledging
the receipt of Darya’s letter giving information contained in your unnumbered
telegrams dated 15th and Kith November. He expresses extreme astonish
ment and states that people at Shiraz firmly believe that a state of war
exists. Now he himself does not know what to believe.
Think that it would be a good thing if Persian Government sent
p detailed telegrams explaining situation and issuing orders for guidance to
kj 'Ibis* Kawam Shaikh of Jafar and Ghazanfar care of Darya Begi, with
instructions to latter to forward them at once to addresses by quickest
possible means.
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