"مجلد I مذكرات بخصوص بلاد فارس والمنطقة الحدودية الشمالية الغربية. ١٩٠٥." [و‎‎٣‎٦] (٣١٠/٧٦)

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informant’s signed statement as to what took
place at the Customs Director’s visit (para
graph 27 above), and also a statement attested
by all persons who were present at the con
versation, and that they were to the same effect
as the original report.
31. Bassidore .—On the 25th June, Major
Cox reported that the Moin-ut-Tujjar had
asked permission to store red ochre in our
station on Bassidore. He had addressed Tehran
on the subject, and deprecated compliance
with the Moin-ut-Tujjar’s request. In view
of the fact that Sir Arthur Hardinge had
stigmatised the Moin as a person who con
sistently opposed British interests and at the
present time is endeavouring to lay claim to
the ground which the Indian Government
desire to rent for the Ahwaz Consulate, the
Government of India agreed with the views
held by Major Cox.
32. Shiraz .—The Governor-General of
Shiraz has arrested and proposes to execute
several of the road-guards of the Bushire-
Shiraz road for their misdeeds which have be
come intolerable.
33. Constant and daring robberies north
and south of Dehbid on the Shiraz-Ispahan
road have been reported.
31. About 2nd June, a fanatical move
ment directed by Mirza Ibrahim, a leading
Mulla, against the Jews was started in the
Moslem quarters, and their felt kolahs (caps)
were torn to pieces, the Moslems demanding that
the Jews should wear a distinctive head dress.
His Majesty’s Consul has addressed a note to
the Governor-General, and paid a visit to the
Jewish quarter. The Jew baiting continued
throughout the month.
An order has now been issued by the Salar-
ul-Sultan, ordering all Jews to wear felt skull
caps, and those wearing high kolahs to wear
a piece of yellow stuff on the collars of their
coat.
MM. Schocher and Venugiani, Profes
sors of the Jewish school, were summoned
before the Prince and Sardar-i-Akram, and
were warned to confine themselves to their
school work.
35. Quarantine .—In furtherance of the
scheme for providing a superior class of Euro
pean Military Assistant Surgeons for quarantine
work in the Persian Gulf {vide Memorandum
for April, paragraph 29), Military Assistant
Surgeon Stewart has been directed to proceed
to Jask to relieve Assistant Surgeon McMillan
at present in charge of quarantine and the
Indo-European Telegraph dispensary there.
Simla ; c. SOMERS COCKS.
The Ut August 1905 .)