"مجلد I مذكرات بخصوص بلاد فارس والمنطقة الحدودية الشمالية الغربية. ١٩٠٥." [و‎‎٧‎٠] (٣١٠/١٤٤)

return from India on the 25th February. The
Shaghasi Abdul Kudus Khan has been created
Motamid-i-Daulat, and is to be chief member
of the Consultative Council. His former duties
will be carried on by Muhammad Suleiman
Khan, son of Sardar Muhammad Ashraf Khan
and brother-in-law of the Amir, who will
he in charge of Durbar and military matters.
The Kotwal of Kabul, Muhammad Hussan
Khan, has been put in charge of all the offices
at Kabul, and Fateh Muhammad Khan, a
nephew of Abdul Kudus Khan, has been made
Kotwal.
Three Afridi Maliks—Alam Khan, Zarin
Khan, and Hayat Khan—have been summoned
to Kabul and are being entertained by Khwas
Khan at the expense of the State.
KASHGAR.
Mr. Macartney has reported that there is
a general feeling among the Chinese officials
there that the safety of the New Dominion
from Russian aggression lies in an understand
ing with the Indian Government. This attitude
is due to rumours of a Russian offer to
surrender Manchuria to China in return for
the New Dominion. The Chinese officials in
Kashgar, who form a sort of special service
for the province, are naturally apprehensive
of the results of such an arrangement, and
are thus inclined to favour British interests.
On the 2nd January, Mons. Lavrov, Secre
tary to the Russian Consulate, left for a tour
in Yarkand and Khotan. Mr. Macartney
regards the tour as an effort to revive Russian
prestige, which does not stand so high as it did
before the outbreak of the war with Japan.
On the 14th January, Mr. Macartney
called on Mons. Kolokolov. The Cossacks at
the gate w r ere so casual in announcing him
and kept him so long standing outside^ that he
left his card and went away. Mons. Kolokolov
afterwards, on meeting Mr. Macartney, apolo
gised for the rudeness of the Cossacks, and
promised that the offence should not be
repeated.
The Taotai at Kashgar has received
certain instructions, from which it is suspected
that it is intended to revise the Commercial
Treaty with Russia of 1881. The existing
Customs regulations under this treaty place
foreign subjects on a better footing than the
Chinese themselves.
GILGIT AGENCY.
Major Gurdon, who has recently been on
tour in Chilas, reports that the demeanour
of the people is much improved, and that there
is an entire absence of fanaticism. One Mulla
even assists in explaining the Assistant
Surgeon’s advice to patients at the dispensary,