‏"ملخص الأحداث والتدابير الرئيسية التي اتخذها سمو نائب الملك اللورد كرزون من كيدلستون، نائب الملك والحاكم العام للهند في إدارة الخارجية. ‏I‏. يناير ١٨٩٩-أبريل ١٩٠٤. ‏II‏. ديسمبر ١٩٠٤-نوفمبر ١٩٠٥. المجلد IV. بلاد فارس والخليج الفارسي." [ظ‎‎٥‎١] (٣٨٦/١٠٧)

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from I ^ i ^^ S ^ at ai ^ e ^Sl with mi°hitre“ e d eye the future of Seistau
awpsyS ju* s -ns i-r
1*. The construction of a -Jg,*- S£„f », tS
few years also illustrated the pol b 0 ftllssian Minister of Finance, in
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of complications with England.
15 In seeking to obtain a footing in Seistan, Bussia was not merely endca,
rourS afpromising avenue of Anglo-Indian trade m^to ac^e.
Towrmg to MOCK a ««w^u.8 on the western flank of
Trahan in 1697 where Russian imports were trilling, and tins indmdua
sfS**»r j^rKsrtar-si tssrs:
SoO tofsOoTand'detactnne'nts of this corps were, for the first tjme t^ken to
the south hv the Governors of Shiraz and Arabistan. In 1S.)7, M. Kiu 0 ai
was sent as Russian Consul to Baghdad with the special object of ^reportm^
upon the acquisition by Russia of »j^S continuously at Koweit
during 1899. In Bushirc and Bunder Abbas the Russians ^developed parked
interest, two doctors making their appearance there in 1 ^ 7 , f( ' 1 ' p tll0 T at f 8 L a
Dlague. By the end of 1893 the number was increased to five. In lb95a
Russian officer visited and surveyed the island of Hormuz, e ° ^p aC0
Abbas, and other Russian emissaries were afterwards heard of at the lattei place,
Further it should not be forgotten that in 1898 Russian opposition bio ec
the loan to the Persian Government from the Imperial Bank of Persia, the
security of which was to he the customs of the southern ports, to be collected by
agents "of the bank. In spite of Count Mouraviett’s recent assurance that Russia
had no intention to acquire a port on the Gulf, the information received from
a Persian official of high rank, known personally to the Viceroy, was^to the
effect that Russia had acquired certain rights in regard to such a port, although
it might not suit her at once to enforce them. Nor were such pledges, even if
given by the sovereign, always regarded as binding by bis officials.
16 It was more than a coincidence that simultaneo ’sly with the increas-
hm Russian interest in Central and Southern Persia there was a notable
revival of activity by Prance, the ally of Russia in those quarters, llus
was evidenced by the appointment • of a Consul at Bushire and a Native
Consular Agent at Lingah, by visits of Prenohmen to Koweit and to the
ICarun to obtain a footing at Mohammerah, Shuster and Bizfuli- and by
the organised State-aided service of merchant steamers to the Gull. Iinally,
there were negotiations for a French loan to the Persian Government upon
the security of the customs of the Gulf ports, and a promise of a railway
monopoly in that country. French interests in these waters were so intm-
itesimai that these proceedings could be interpreted only as an attempt to
cause trouble to a possible rival, and to assist a European ally. r lhis view was
borne out by French action at Maskat, where the French Government m 1899
were attempting to obtain, under the guise of coaling facilities, an independent
pied-a-terre in the neighbourhood of the Persian Gulf and had kept up the
free grant of the French flag to Arab dhows, owning allegiance to the Sultan
of Muskat.
17. Germany too bad in recent years displayed increasing interest m
Persia and the Persian Gulf. She had secured a concession for the construction
of a road from Khanikin to Tehran, prolongations of Turko-German railways to