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Telegram No. 24 ; dated (and received) the 7th January 1916,
From— Major A_P. Trevor, C.I.E., Deputy Political Resident in Persian Gulf,
To-The Se^tarytofte Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart-
1 , British Consul at Kernaan telegraphed that party consists of
E v^ rS p nS mcluair1 ^ about 20 Armenians. Besides this there are Bussian
Kerman.^ CoilSU ar escort - Hiudu community preferred to remain at
to Cox^ reSSe ^ I ' 0rei ° n Seoretar y to the Government of India and repeated
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Telegram No. 35-W., dated the 8th January 1916.
From—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political
Department, Delhi,
To—The Hon'ble Lieutenant-Colonel Sm P Cox, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E., Political
Resident in the Persian Gulf, Basrah.
(Repeated to Major Trevor, Bnshire.)
Your telegram dated 6th January, Kerman party. Please arrange accord
ingly. A report by telegram should be sent to us stating number, condition and
composition of party, and whether any of them wish to proceed elsewhere from
Bombay,
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Telegram P., No. 2-F., dated the 7th via Robat 8th (received 9th) January 1916.
From—His Britannic Majesty’s Consul for Sistan and Kain,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart
ment, Delhi.
(Addressed Tehran.)
The chief holders of grain in Sistan are Hisam-ud-Daula, his cousin Haidar
Ali Khan and Sardar Purdil Khan. On December 4th, and again on Decem
ber 27th, I appealed to Hisam through Consul-General, Meshed, to sell us grain.
He telegraphed twice to Haidar Ali who has been obdurately declaring that he
had no surplus at all.
I heard on January 4th that Haidar Ali and another agent of Hisam had
been sending quantities of grain into the town by night from their villages
and that they were emptying granaries and distributing contents among houses
in their villages : also that Haidar Ali was on the point of leaving for Meshed-
Purdil Khan has for several months been displaying latent hostility. He
refused to give us any Levy sowars. He dissuaded Khudadad Khan for several
weeks from doing so and he even repudiated contracts made with Indian supplier.
When summoned bv Karguzar he refused to come to Sistan. Eventual(ly?) his
son Air Khan came in and on January 5th visited me. I demanded 800 khar-
wars Tabrizi of barley from his promising three times the price for it. After
much discussion he promised to give 200. This amount is totally inadequate
for our needs.