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eventually to leave in fear of his life and go to Lingah, where he combined to
the Residency Agent.
506. The Residency Agent made enquiries and reported that the robbers were
of the Beni Malik tribe, and that the leaders were Abdulla bin Muhammad Rajab
and Abdulla bin Haji Juma, the local Chiefs or Governors of Izbar and Asfieh
respectively, subordinate directly to Rustam Khan and ultimately to Fath Ali
Khan. Maghu also mentioned Shaikh Sagar of Thainini and Shaikh Ahmed
Khan of Asalu as amongst the leaders.
507. On the 18th October 1892 the Resident (Colonel Talbot) telegraphed
about this case to Her Britannic Majesty’s Minister at Tehran, and suggested
that a competent official should be sent from Shiraz to proceed to Naband in
the Persian man-of-war Persopolis and obtain redress. Detailed accounts of
the outrage were forwarded to Her Britannic Majesty’s Minister with Colonel
Talbot's letters of the 21st and 29th October 1892. On the 27th October Her
Britannic Majesty’s Minister telegraphed to the Resident that the case had been
referred by telegraph to the Government of Fars “ for a report with a view to
further action” The Governor-General of Fars (His Royal Highness the
Rukn-ud-Daula) replied that he had sent his “ Pishkhidmat ” to Laristan to
investigate the case and recover the property, and that he would again urge the
" Pishkhidmat ” to recover the property from Rustam Khan, son of Fath Ali
Khan. On the 21st January 1893 Colonel Talbot forwarded to Her Britannic
Majesty’s Minister another petition for redress from Maghu, and brought to
notice that delay of more than three months had occurred in the settlement of the
case. Ou the 13th February 1893 Her Britannic Majesty’s Minister telegraphed
that telegraphic orders had been sent to the Governor-General of Fars to " restore
at once the property of Maghu.” The British Agent at Shiraz reported that such
orders were received by His Royal Highness the Rukn-ud-Daula, who there­
upon issued strict orders to his “ Pishkhidmat ” and to Fath Ali Khan of Laristan,
directing that either the property or compensation should be at once produced.
Soon afterwards Colonel Talbot had occasion to address Her Britannic Majesty’s
Minister about the case of another British Indian subject named Kishindass
Marwarid, whose goods had been plundered by the Baharlus near Bandar Abbas,
and suggested that, in order to avoid further delay, the Government of Fars
should pay compensation at once and proceed to recover it afterwards from the
guilty parties. His Excellency the Minister replied on the 25th March 1893
that he had been in communication with the present Governor-General of Fars,
the Nizam-es-Sultaneh, about the cases of Kishendass Marwarid and Maghu,
and had been assured that they should be settled as soon as the Nizam-es-
Sultaneh arrived at Shiraz.
508. On the 17th May and 13th July 1893 the British Agent at Shiraz was
directed by telegram to report what had been done in these cases. He replied
on the 16th July that Fath Ali Khan, Begler Begi of Laristan, was then in Shiraz
and would soon go to Lar, and that he had been instructed to recover the pro­
perty or pay compensation.
509. On the 9th September the British Agent forwarded a note from
the Nizam-es-Sultaneh, saying that Fath Ali Khan had received strict orders
in the matter, but that it would necessarily take him some time to get down to
the sea coast and deal with the case of Maghu.

Complaint agaifist Baharlus and ARABS in the neighbourhood of Bandar
Abbas.
Case of Kishendass Marwarid.
^5*°* At the end of November 1892 the Resident received complaints from
British subjects at Bandar Abbas to the effect that a number of Arabs, under
the leadership of Hussain Khan Baharlu and Reza Khan, had come to within
35 miles of Bandar Abbas and put a stop to all traffic. One British Indian
subject, named Kishendass Marwarid, complained that the Baharlus and Arabs
had robbed a caravan of his at Tang-i-Zindan on the way to Kerman, and carried
off six loads .of sugar and 2^ loads of candles.