"أوراق متعلقة بلجنة بلاد الرافدين من غرفة السير إ. بارو" [و‎‎٣‎٣‎٤] (١٣٨٦/٦٧٥)

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Bote:- Cholera was very bad in Kabdl up to the begin
ning oi Beptr but was then abating to a rate of about
60 a day* ihiri^ the previous '6 weeks 6,000 deaths
were reported as having taken place*
Meshed Heported with rcferenco to the Germane at Herat that
t}n.r j had been vjarneu early in Poptr to b© ready to go
t** RHbul.A few of the party had been allowed to return
to Persia ana another eraall noraber of Germans had reached
Herat, On the other hand a force of about 200 horse
who proiaoseci to be Turks iad been stopped on the Afghan
iront:Lor. ( 5 th 3eptr)
Tha Governor ox Herat had received the Germans in
.Durbar nlxm they iiad produced mrm and a proclamation
of Jehad by the flit an, Hiey pronised arras and officers
to the fdgruuis rnd feaio. that Gen any would insist on the
ocetvicn Turkietan as far ae. Samarkand and of Ind3.a as
f r as Bombay to the Amir, ^heir re^erks do not appear
to Havt made much impression and their corarnents on the
fir'vrtoja.'t;* and troops of Ai>;-.anintan '.ere resented.
fist*an > 0 '.rji !. re port"? fl2th 'eptr) that several German par
ti o- Wi. o approaching Sistan via Kermanshah ?«c
•i i 5 t'iat it hia opinion (sheared iy the British tlin-
i; tor at Tehran) that during the winter the Germans
weul.3 nX o f a dead not’ on 3 is tan. He thinks that in this
Desertions.
event *aany Afghans v.o .ld Join thorn, i i^arty of about 300
with Oer cian oadgos in icrBian caps had gradually
arrival at f or Teashah v.ith 6C loads of German munitions.
Tlio German Consul thoi ‘0 was continuing to enlist men and
ah ’ A- : i to .je t 20, Of f to reinforce the Turks in Baghdad,
Certain Afridi deoerte s from the o.vTaziristan Militia
when passing through 3adran country wore attacked and a
Havildar and Sepoy killed.