مجموعة ١١١/٢٨ "بلاد فارس. كرمانشاه - يوميّات سياسية." [و‎‎١‎٥‎٩] (٧٥١/٣٢٠)

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Atoout th« at th# month mimboro oi Ar»b
trib«»n«a t estimated at about ^»re reported by tha
Oovantor of ILAM to have crosaaa the xrontlar irom ' i&A4
into . eroie in tho area, and alao at a
,>oint in tha Vith Uatan, to & raiie thair TiocRa. i'hay
stated that arran^e^Hta had bean made by the two oovem-
mente mder a oraain^ A^feement to permit t ie but no
moh information ^u reached t.oloael MAJOf nur ; when hie
reports lirat arrived In had tne Ostandar miy
knowledge o£ the A^wmmntm on the 30th 9 F^UM-ud-^jCiA-H
received a despatch from Tehraii \not in reaponae to hie
teX«torikiaat for these hud not had time to elicit a re^ij j §
giving particular a ot the Agreement* From theee it
ap:>eared that the arrangement waa exceptional and eae tor
the present year only; that the trlbee eere not to carry
arms; and grasm* dues, it ia believed, were to be waived.
The Agreement had been negotiated in Bagdad without aify
prior coneultation ©y the Persian oovemment with their
local authorities in the ereae most closely concerned.
Moreover, i'rom the TehrajEi des,^»tch to th^e Uatandar it
appeared that two months or more had elapsed held re the
aUnietry o£ the Interior passed on the iniormation
received frost the pin!etry oi Foreign Affairs. W muSb*
wiri&QWUM. Informed the Head of the aeodarmerle at once
and relayed the Information to Polonel iltlKHI* but as the
letter’s report by telegram had taAen 17 daya to reach
the aovemor-aeneral* e inetructions may also
ta e eoffte time. In the meantime, as the Arab# were
reported to be anueci with British .303 riiles, this
Consulate suggested that a Briti^x ^litical Officer from
iiUT or AMAKKH mi^ht visit the area. The Persian frontier
authorities had instructions from Colonel HfifKift to bt
circumspect, but the presence of a British oiiioer would
have an exoellent effect and reducc^he possibility of an
tmtoward incident.
itfl i?. one of the tribal leaders moved about two months ago
/Mto nw*Mi> tmm-WJtm xnzi ex. jam tPcccaber Biary,
paragraph 13> was allowed to return to his tribe during
the month on the BIi*dAM Bakhshear, K.H Mi KDARI,
guaranteeing his good behaviour.
IB. The A.B.O., Kurdistan reported that at the beginning
of February » good deal of anti«»bHXAF iceling wsa aroueed
in /