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No. 363 C., dated Bombay Castle, tbe oth June 191o (Confidential).
From—I j. Robertson, Esq., Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Politica
To—The Foreign Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political
Department.
I am directed to .ddre.. I”"'“Si” •i'"™ »'
'L^manS'.U.i .“t RWlSS* «’ ^ ^SgSi
WS&SSTKS
some to notice in the Cable Censoiship. whnt
2. Before describing the nature of that^ apparently
s known of the parties concerned i . ^ ^ . rr - Lutfeali Ittihadi of
rets for the Gentian Legation, Ittihadi in
rehran, Yezd and Shiraz. Ibis , ^ s beoa the Agent
the later paragraphs of this letter, lias i ? . \ s rji^ e pr i n cipal of
of the Bombay firm of Abdur some y^ars b? e n resident
the latter firm, Abdur Rahman i • > . tb Shiraz firm known as
in Persia, where he is concerned in t^e directorate of ^smra D . rector of ^
the pars Company. Ittihadi, w hi i (' omm i S sion Agents, draws very freely
large firm of General merchants “ d 0o “"y way of business : his bills
upon the Bombay firm of allowed ve ry considerable overdrafts.
Busbfs^o/ th“s 0 'Snd, a on a comparatively small scale, has been continuing,
as before, ever since the war broke out. , P „ On the
w“n a y s
follows:—
“ Don’t sell sugar. Deceived 1,50,000 Ittihadi. ^
a nf +hp Bombay firm, who showed apparent
Inquiries were at once made of ^ ^ lakh a nd-a-lialf of rupees
readiness to give information. account by the Chartered Bank on the
had been paid to them on f^di 8 poou’it oy i ts Bombay Branch
18th May. Inquiries from the Chartered P^ e ™ on the potl, of May
had hut little information on the subject It had rec ^ 15(j 000 tf) „ Abdul
telegrapliic instructions fromits London vi P „bjh called for instructions
Abler Shirazi ”• Not knowing be -P^^rther inSion that the pay-
and after a somewhat unusual d ^ Bombay Branch of the
meet should be made to Abdur Rahman Slurazi in. ^ si ificaut
Chartered Bank had no further know e S e £ (; lette r, is that three
°T'wi-i'«--w».
account was according to Shirazi some As against this, Shirazi held
drawn to the extent of rather o^er Rs. 4 ° OCR As but he kne4T
Ittihadi’s bills for £4,000 on e ^ J sell these without telegraphic
by experience that he won d be unab^^to^e now it wil , t
reference to Ittihadi himscl . ®, Shiraz was at once warned to
of course, be impossible to negotiate them. ^bUiraz^^^^ By
honour no draft of ^^^^ite orders were finally given, bills to the
the evening ot the iltli, wiien utu ittihadi on Shiraz were actually
ffs&tS»S£Si,i8S&... p.1—' “ -r b *
•“" 5 , “ZTlrfi:te'S ~ u prevent the uWisatioi^of »J