"مجلد I مذكرات بخصوص بلاد فارس والمنطقة الحدودية الشمالية الغربية. ١٩٠٥." [و‎‎٤‎٢] (٣١٠/٨٨)

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11. Shiraz .—On the recommendation of
H. M.’s Minister at Tehran and the Political
Resident, Bushire, it has been decided that
the allowance paid to the medical officer
in charge of the Indo-European Telegraph
Staff at Shiraz for attendance on the Resident
in the Persian Gulf and his staff during their
temporary residence at Shiraz shall be in
creased from Rs. 50 to Rs. 100 a month. In
consideration of this increase, the medical
officer will now be required to attend Govern
ment officials and their establishments of every
Department, and to render such professional
services as may be asked for by any Consular
officer in cases other than those of Govern
ment employes.
12. Under orders from Sardar-i-Akram,
two raids have been committed on village
Koushki-Bidak, belonging to Prince Jamal-
ul-Din, a great-grandson of Path Ali Shah,
residing at Shiraz, and crops valued at
Krans 2,00,000 destroyed. This has caused
much popular indignation in Shiraz. The
pretext (apparently fallacious) given for these
raids is said to be that the villagers had killed
a Persian Cossack who was sent to effect an
arrest.
13. In recent private conversations with
Mr. Grahame, His Imperial Highness the
Shoa-es-Sultaneh (Governor-General) men
tioned that he contemplated European travel.
This would include a cure at Berlin for
intestinal troubles to which His Imperial High
ness has been subject for some years past; a
visit to Italy, and return to Persia by sea,
visiting en route Egypt and Ceylon, and dis
embarking at Calcutta, and traversing India
by rail. Private information received by Mr.
Grahame tends to show that up to the 5th
September His Imperial Highness had not
received definite permission to proceed to
Tehran, and that in no case will he be allowed
to meet the Shah at Resht, as he had proposed.
14. Bushire .—In regard to the Bushire
merchants’ agitation against the Custom Tariff
(vide Memorandum for July, paragraph 13),
Sir Arthur Hardinge has shown M. Naus,
confidentially, Major Cox’s report on the
matter, and M. Naus promised to furnish a
written statement setting forth the grounds
on which the Customs Administration had
acted, and the concessions which would now
be made. It appears from M. Naus’s remarks
that the chief grievances of the merchants
at Bushire are due to the fact that the
Customs Tariff was drawn up in ignorance of
the chief items of local trade, e.g., a heavy
Customs rate is levied on dates. M. Naus
was unaware that this fruit was imported
into Southern Persia, which is itself a date
growing country. He has now promised to
reduce this duty to 10^ ad valorem t and will