"مجلد I مذكرات بخصوص بلاد فارس والمنطقة الحدودية الشمالية الغربية. ١٩٠٥." [و‎‎٤‎١] (٣١٠/٨٦)

Memorandum of information received during
the month of September 1905, regarding
external affairs relating to Persia.
[Note. —This memorandum is based upon reports, the accuracy of
which it is not always possible to guarantee.]
PERSIA.
1. Tehran. —Sir A. Hardinge left
Tehran on the 28th August for Meshed, whence
he proceeded to England after a stay of about
a fortnight.
2. The Shah of Persia has conferred
the title of Atabeg-i-Azam on the Grand
Vizier. This title is the highest a Persian
subject can hold.
3. On the 8th September, Sir C.
Hardinge reported that the Shah was expected
to arrive at Peterhof on the 2nd September
{vide paragraph 1 of the Memorandum for
August 1905).
4. His Imperial Highness the Zil-es-
Sultan has been asked if he would join others
in Tehran to propose to the Shah to stay
permanently in Europe, receiving the same
allowances there as he gets now, abdicating
practically in favour of the Valiahd. His
Imperial Highness laughed at the idea, saying
he was not so stupid. This appears to be,
according to the Prince, a move against the
Ain-ed-I)owleh.
5. Tabriz. —On the 12th September, Mr.
Grant Duff repeated a telegram from H. M.'s
Consul-General at Tabriz, stating that
uneasiness was increasing in that town, and
the Governor-General did not seem as con
fident as he was last June (paragraph 6 of
Memorandum for June) of maintaining order,
though he might be relied on to do all he could.
He added that at present all was quiet at
Tabriz.
6. TJrumia. —With reference to the
situation in Urumia (paragraph 6 of Memo
randum for July), Mr. Grant Duff telegraphed
on the 29th September that the Persian
Commissioner, to investigate the Urumia
murders and attack on Captain Gough, had
arrived at Tabriz, and would shortly proceed
to Urumia. He stated that the United States
Minister was on terms of open enmity with the
missionaries, and was considered by them to
have mismanaged the Urumia case ; he took
little trouble to support the European represent
atives at Tehran, and showed a tendency
to expect H. M.’s Consul-General at
Tabriz to deal, without his co-operation,
with a matter which was mainly the concern
of the United States Government, Mr.