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There is nothing to report to-day.
The English Consul and. English Colony at Shiraz have been made
prisoners by the Gendarmerie and taken to Borasjun where they are now held
in confinement. According to a telegram from Aghai Kawam-ul-Mulk
received from Kazerun the Gendarmerie on the 2nd Muharram seized all the
Government buildings at Shiraz and the British under the pretext that orders
had been received from the exalted Government and war had been declared.
I request Your Highness will take immediate steps to dispel these false state
ments and to secure the liberation of the English Consul and Colony and the
punishment of the guilty parties. I will telegraph further details when avail
able. It is very necessary that the Prime Minister should declare through me
that Shaikh Hussain Chahkutah, Zair Khidhar Tangistani and Ghazanfar-es-
Sultaneh of Borasjun are rebels and outlaws in the eyes of Government and
the Nation, and that orders should be sent from His Imperial Majesty the
Shah to Sardar Ashair to effect their arrest and removal to Tehran, the release
of the English prisoners and also the deportation of Wassmuss.
153
Telegram P. ; No. 286, dated (and received) the 2nd December 1915.
Prom—His Britannic Majesty ; s Consul, Kerman,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart
ment, Delhi.
There is nothing to report to-day.
154
Telegram dated (and received) the 2nd December 1915.
Prom—His Britannic Majesty’s Vice-Consul, Yezd, Yezd,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart
ment, Delhi.
One German officer, ten Persian subjects left here for Kerman December
1st, destination said to be Khabis.
Addressed Kerman; repeated Tehran, Sistan. Meshed, Simla (Delhi ?).
158
Telegram P., No. 29/, dated (and received) the 3rd December 1915.
From—His Britannic Majesty's Consul, Kerman,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India 4 in the Foreign and Political Depart
ment, Delhi.
A serious riot was nearly caused here by the Germans and democrats. A
Persian soldier went to the Guard Boom of the telegraph office and picked a
quarrel with one of the guard and in the scuffle was slightly stunned and not
seriously injured. He pretended to be nearly killed and a well-known demo
crat officer went to the telegraph office and in spite of the doctor’s protests,
carried him off through the bazar spreading the report that he had been beaten
by order of Superintendent in the telegraph office.
The regiment turned out and threatened ? telegraph office and were stopped
only just in time by Sardar Nusrat. The democrats and Germans were quite
prepared to carry it on into a big riot.
Bepeated to Bushire and Eoreign; addressed to Tehran.
159
Telegram P., No. 291, dated the 4th (received 5th) December 1915.
From—His Britannic Majesty's Consul, Kerman,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart
ment, Delhi.