"مجلد I مذكرات بخصوص بلاد فارس والمنطقة الحدودية الشمالية الغربية. ١٩٠٥." [و‎‎٣‎٤] (٣١٠/٧٢)

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Jittaok on Colonel Douglas and Lieutenant.
Lorimer, had been captured, presumably by
treachery.
10. Bushire .—A Frenchman, named
Alexandre, connected with the Sugar
Refineries of St. Louis, who visited the Gulf
two years ago as Secretary to M.
Jouannin, Secretary to the “ Comite de 1’Asie
Francaise ”, arrived at Bushire in the
“Persepolis” on the 21th June from Moham-
merah, to which place he had come from
Basrah. It is reported that he intends to
import from St. Louis, and store in Bushire,
large quantities of sugar in the hope of mono
polising the trade.
11. Petty robberies are again prevalent
in the outskirts of Bushire and are announced
by the local authorities to be the work of
Tangistanis, but incidents which occurred
during the Darya Begi’s last Governorship
give rise to the report that these robberies are
instigated by the Governor himself when ho
is in straits for money.
12. The Darya Begi left Bush ire on the
8th instant in the Persian gun-boat “ Perse
polis ” for Dilam to instal Morad Khan, uncle
of Hyder Khan of Bunder Rig, as the Deputy
Governor, but the present incumbent and his
supporters objected to have Morad Khan. The
Darya Begi consequently returned to Bushire
on the 10th, and is now collecting levies before
returning to Dilam with Morad Khan.
13. The merchants of Bushire have
presented a memorandum to the Director-
General of Customs, setting forth their com
plaints against certain articles of the R6gle-
ment Douanier (vide Memorandum for June,
paragraph 16). Briefly, the objection is that
the R&glement Douanier has been framed on
the model of some European Customs Tariff,
but without any regard to local conditions;
and that, for this reason, several of the condi
tions laid down in the Persian Tariff are im
practicable at Bushire.
14. Sir Arthur Ilardinge, in a despatch
of the 24th June, states that the Mushir-
ed-Dowleh has addressed a note to the Russian
Minister, making representations as to the
disturbed state of the province of Erivan, and
Trans-Caucasia generally, and pointing out
that it constitutes a danger to the lives and
security of Persian subjects.
The Erivan Mussulmans have, in fact,
informed their co-religionists at Tabriz that
many of them have been killed by Armenians,
and have urged reprisals on the Armenians of
Tabriz. The Nizam-es-Sultaneh and the chief
ecclesiastics of both religions, seconded by the
influence of the Consulates-General, have so
far succeeded in preserving peace.