‏"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." [ظ‎‎٨‎٤] (٣٨٦/١٧٣)

shah. Major Burton had drawn attention to the desire expressed by the
Bakhtiari chiefs for the services of an English Doctor. They had been consi
dering the advisability of employing one from the Church Missionary Society
at Ispahan. Politically this step was considered undesirable and on Sir
A. Hardinge proposing that a medical officer should be attached to the
Consulate, with permission to undertake private practice among the Bakhtiari
Khans, the Government of India readily agreed and in July 1901, deputed a
Medical Officer from the Indian establishment as Consular Surgeon for
Arabistan and Kermanshah whose duties would include travelling in Bakhtiari
land.
11. The establishment of additional consulates within the jurisdiction of
Appointment of a 2nd Assistant to Consul-General at Bushire consider-
the Political Resident in the Persian ably augmented the duties of that officer
u ’ and in February 1905, the necessity for
a 2nd Assistant to the Resident was clearly shown. Lieutenant Gabriel’s
retention as a probationer was first sanctioned temporarily pending permanent
arrangements, which were settled in connection with the reorganisation of the
Political Department.
12. On the pretext that plague had appeared at Herat and Kandahar, a
Appointment of a British Consular line of quarantine stations was organised
Officer at Turbat-i-Haidari. in l897 by the ft ussian Government from
Tarshiz on the edge of the desert south-west of Meshed to Karez on the Afghan
frontier. The quarantine was enforced by Russian officers and doctors and
by Russian and Persian Cossacks, the latter paid through their Bussian officers.
The main object of this move was to menace the trade route and harass Afghan
traders so as to compel them to trade direct with Russia instead of with Persia.
Frequent complaints against the presence of this cordon on Persian soil
were made by the Persian Government and when in 1903, the Russian Govern
ment declined to withdraw it, His Majesty’s Government in defence of British
interests decided in August 1903 to post a Consul at Turbat-i-Haidari to be
accompanied by an officer of the Indian Medical Service and an escort of 25
sowars, with a native officer. The British Consul assumed charge in Januarv
1904. ^
13. Continued Russian activity in Khorasan and the expansion of British
Appointment of a Military Attach^ interests in that province disclosed the fact
. , that the Consul-General at Meshed was
t< o fully occupied bv his political and consular avocations to allow of his devotin 0 *
the time necessary for collecting and reporting intelligence—an important part
of his duties—regarding Russian Military movements in Central Asia. The im
portance of Meshed as a centre from which to gain early intelligence of Russian
movements and preparations had always been recognised by the Military authori
ties who were convinced of the growing importance of organising and developing
on sound lines their system of intelligence. A Military Officer had already
been, deputed to Northern Khorasan on a roving commission and it was now
considered desirable to regularise his position. The Government of India
decided in 1904 to supplement the Meshed establishment by his appointment
as Military Attache to the Consulate General at Meshed—a proposal which
was strongly supported by Sir A. Hardinge. 15
14. In March 1905
a Native British Consular Agent was stationed at
Appointment of a British Consular Koh-i-Malik Siah to afford assistance and
Agent at Koh-i-Malik Siah. 4 . i .
., ™ protection to traders using the Nushki
trade route for details vide Chapter XV, paragraph 13, page 97.
15. 1 inally, it uas proposed, in 1905, that an Indian Officer should be
Proposed appointment of an officer deputed to work in the British Legation
?L t T e eh I r n a d nLega 0 t 1 ion. al Departraent to r itself - This proposal .of 1905 was a coun-
„ , » T . , , terpart of one previously made by the
S 5^ -kords Northbrook and Lytton which eventually resulted in
188J in an Indian officer being appointed to be both Military Attach^ and
Oriental Secretary, with an implied understanding that his duties were to bo
semi-poliUc- 1 1. But in 1900 the dual post was broken up into two appointments,
the former filled by an officer from the Indian Army, the latter by His Majesty’s