‏"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." [و‎‎١‎٥‎٣] (٣٨٦/٣١٠)

In enal.lo the Ala-ed-Dowleh to escape paying me an official call at the Besi-
and as Sir A. Hardinge was every moment expecting a favourable reply
to his telegrams from Tehran, it was decided that it could not be accepted.
11 These proceedings occupied the entire day of December 2nd, during
which the squadron lay at anchor eight miles from the town. A high sea was
iunnino- and communication with the shore was d.fficult. S,r A Hardinge
was on D ^ne throughout the day trying to arrange matters Late in the
evening he sent a letter to inform me that the reason for winch, the Persian
Government attached so much importance to my visiting the official residence
that they had prepared was lest it should he thought that by not enteiing
it I had disdained the Shah’s hospitality. I at once wrote back to say that !
would "-ladly meet this view by moving into the Charburj or the Karguzar s
house after the exchange of official visits on the morrow was over and by
treatin'- it as my official residence for the remainder of the day 1 further
laid that I left it to the Ala ed-Oowleh to settle whether he would prefer me
to dine on shore with him in the evening, or whether lie would come off to
dine with me at a big dinner to which 1 had invited (50 guests trom the shoie
ami from the fleet to meet him, and before which I had oontempUted invest-
ing him with the K.C.I.E.
1-2 On the morning of the 3rd I received a note from Sir A. Hardinge.
who was still on shore, to say that unfriendly influences had obviously been
at work at Tehran; for the Ala-ed-Dowleh had received explicit orders from
the Shah not to visit meat the Residency, but to insist upon the Persian
visit bein~ paid either at the Charburj or at the Karguzar s house. In these
circumstances there was nothing more to he done, and all hope of a compromise
was at an end.
CURZON,
Viceroy mnd Governor- General oj India-
Dated the 3rd December 1903.
Countersigned.
A. IT. HARDINGE.
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No. 4, (Secret—Tx'ernalt, dated Fort, William, the 7th January 190k
Trom-The Government of fndia in the Foreign Department,
To-TheRtGHT Mon-bos St. John Baonatcx, His Majesty’s Secretary of State tor
India.
whic^purpons 0 *^ give an account of what occurred on the occasion of my
7^^rScolonel KcmhaU the
indicating the explanation of their conduct which the local Feisian
thought fit to advance.
2. The tone of the articles is distinctly impertinent hut^calls fo* no special
noliee, since it appears that a^^ating,
indicating thereby his dissent from the f "/tc reas u or winch l id not
of Pars. The further account promised ot the reasons ioi
land has, therefore, not been publisned.