ملف ٢٢٩٧/ ١٩١٩ "تقارير شهرية للمقيمية البريطانية في الخليج الفارسي. ١٩١٢-١٩٢٠." [ظ‎‎٤‎٩‎٧] (١٠٤٤/٩٩٩)

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of foreigners should be boycotted and refused entrance to mosques, baths, etc.
This however was negatived by the Anjuman on the suggestion of Saiyid Mehdi
Doulatabadi. It was further proposed that the Anjuman should meet daily till
further notice. This suggestion was adopted and has been carried out.
58 Zayandeh-Roud and the Boycott.—In the afternoon of 4th December
a special number of the “/ayandh-Roud ” in the form of a feuilleton was ft
published, giving in one column the telegram of the democrats from Tehran
announcing Russian unwarranted interference in internal affairs of Persia*,
and in the other calling on all to abstain from purchasing or using Russian or
English goods. To unite in brotherhood and avoid all dissensions. To warn
all other inhabitants of towns and villages and also tribesmen to join in defend
ing faith and fatherland, etc., etc. J
The only practical result of these impassioned appeals to public patriotism
would appear to be that soft sugar has gone up from 12^ to 13| Krans per Shah
Man. Enquiries made by Mr. Grahame from British merchants and others tend
to show that in no case has there yet been any disinclination to purchase British
goods or to deal with British houses. Considerable quantities of British
piece goods which came in from Shiraz on the 4th December with the increased
escort on whose protection they had forced themselves, were eagerly snapped
up, as was a small quantity of Russian goods received by one of the leading
bunukdars which changed hands five times in one day at high prices. Messrs.
informe . (1 Mr - ^ahame on 13th December that they had considerable
difficulty m delivering goods sold - the caravanserais being closed—hut this did
not at all prevent buyers from coming to do bus'ness at Messrs. Ziegler’s
premises. Banking business, which for sometime past has been somewhat
slack, has remained unaffected by conditions prevailing.
59. Anti-Foreign Feeling .—There is of course a strong feeling against
Russia but this does not appear to have found vent otherwise than in vague talk.
The nearest approach to a concrete instance of misbehaviour towards a'Russian,
subject occurred on 3rd or 4th December when, as stated by Monsieur
Dolgopolow to .Mr. Grahame, the chief of police (or one of his subordinates)
insulted a Persian servant in the employ of the Persian Munshi of the Russian
•? S Pr 6 which Mo^s^ieur Dolgopolow sought a remedy by sending the
said Munshi with a large escort of Cossacks to the police office and subsequent
ly to the local Anjuman, then in sitting, to demand of the chief of police an
immediate apology at the Russian Consulate.
60. On the morning of 16th December a printed notice was extensively
posted up throughout the town purporting to be a copy of a telegram from
e of Bushire, conveying orders from Saiyid Muhammad Kazim Yezdi
Mujtahid of Aajaf, calling on all moslems in Arabia and Persia to prepare to
e end Islam from the attacks now being made on it both in the Ottoman
dominions and m Persia by Christian powers.
^ on ^i on of town and environs .—The environs of the town are
repoi e to be subject to petty raids by bands of 20 to 40 men who generally
gure m bazaar talk as kuhgeluis but who are more probably villagers. In
some is nets this reported insecurity has tended to check the transport of
grain o e own. As the Sardar-i-Ashjaa is bringing in his own produce and
se mg i at the highest possible figure, it would not be to his interest to check
sucli bands.
62. («) Coq/* ProtHwce.—The condition of the province appears to
e ra pi y getting worse. On 19th November the signaller at Ardistan
i & Carav ?„ °J camels bringing wheat from Veramin for Ardistan
i~\ ^ 6 a f 01 . 116 T ^ 1 f ?irsa khs north-east of that place by a band of 110 robbers
(le ie\e o be Kuhgeluis), who emptied the wheat out in the desert and carried
away the camels.
off same date a caravan of about 120 animals from Kuhpa was
ac e near Gulnahad (about 16 miles east of Ispahan) and almost the whole
o le oac s carried away. The robbers, who were at first reported to be Basiri
n esmen, are now said to be local parties (Isfendiaranis and Nafaris).
Tri December 62 of Naib Husain’s followers appeared suddenly at
ia i a aci, took possession of the telephone house and threatened to smash the