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(VIII).—Arrest of several Baluchi chiefs, 1801.
123. In tlio year 1891 Princo Farman Farma of Kerman and Baluchistan
took the swooping measure of arresting
Extl. A., July 1891, Noa. 133-1-15.
and executing several Baluchi chiefs and
others at Bam pur. We shall quote the account given by Farman Farma himself
and a report of a special messenger doputed by Mr. Ffinch to collect the real
facts connected with the affair.

Telegram from—Farman of Farma, Kerman and Baluchistan,
To—Amin-es-Sui.tan, Grand Vazir.
Your telegram regarding the complaint of oppression of Hussain Khan, Baluchi, has been
received. Ah none of the complainants state the real circumstances of the case as to who
the person imprisoned is, and for what crime he is imprisoned, I am obliged to report fully
on the affair, for your information.
This is the well-known Snrdar Hussaiu Khan, who the year before last was the cause of
sedition in Baluchistan. Had not the constant good fortune of the Shah and your own great
prosperity been with mo, not only my life, property, aud reputation, but even the services of
my father and grandfather would have been lost. You too would have been so troubled that
you could not have protected my life and honour. This ungrateful Sardar Hussain Khan is the
same person who claimed Barnpur together with the crown-laud situate therein, as bis in­
heritance, and wauted to take possession of Government forts. Ilis brother Mehrab Khan
who with his sous have sent the telegram, are the persons who set fire to the crown corn ricks.
The crimes and treasons committed by Sardar Hussain Khan, are each so great as to merit
death. But a6 I had pledged myself for the safety of his life, 1 refrained from putting him to
death. After two years of troubles, on my recent visit to Baluchistan I captured Sardar Hussain
Khan, Dilawar Khau, and Shall Dost Khan, the promoters of sedition and revolt, and brought
them in chains to Kerman, where they now are in custody. No othor relative of Sardar I
Hussain Khan has been imprisoned. Melirab Khan and Muhammad Hussain Khau, the
brother and son of Sardar Hussain Khan, who have sent the telegram, have misrepresented
matters regarding imprisonment.
There is another brother of Sardar Hussain Khan, Chakir Khan, who did not take part
in the revolt and is now one of the officials in Baluchistan j he declined to associate himself
with the signatories of the telegram of complaint when they- asked him to make common
pause with them iu the representation. So they alone sent the telegram. Dilawar Khan and
Shah Dost Khan, who are also imprisoned, are not dependants of Sardar Hussain Khan. Each
pf them surpasses him in creating disturbance and seeking for predominance in Baluchistan.
Should any of their relatives too complain about their imprisonment, you will be forwarned
about their offience and treachery.
If I had not preferred the maintenance of order, the good of the. Government, and the
peace of the people to my personal interests, I could have obtained immense presents by the
release of the prisoners. Though legally («c.) I did not regard my own interests but impri­
soned the men and brought them iu chains to Kerman. If you order, I will now sot them
free, but from that moment the Shah must relinquish Baluchistan, for if they set up revolt it
would bo impossible to bring the country to its present state, even if the Shall should spend two
hundred thousand tomans and the lives of many soldiers. You can reply to the telegram in
whatever manner you think proper.
If I had not kept my word, I would have walled up the three prisoners in the towers of
the forts of Fehrooj, Bampur, etc., so as to render the event a matter for history epoch and an
example to others, but although Sardar Hussain Khan has not becu put to death, his relatives
are complaining in this way. The reply to them depends on you.

Report by Bishaw-bin-Ramazan, Postman of the Gwadur Post Office, taken down by MuNsni
Abdur Rahim, Native Assistant, Gwadur, from verbal statements of Bisham about
Bampur affairs.
"When His Royal Highness Naser-ud-Dowlah, Governor-General. of Kerman, was at
Kerman, he and Abul Fath Khan, the late Sartip of Bampur, 6ent an invitation to Sardar
Hussain Khan and Surhang Murad Khan-bin-Mir Shah-Dost Khan to come to Kerman, and
promised that they should be appointed Governors of Baluchistan with possession of Bampur.
The invitation was duly accepted and they came to Kerman bringing with them Kongi Sultan,
Mir Kandil Khan, and Mir Kamran Khan. An interview was granted ihem by the Prince
Governor, who received them with all outward marks of respect, although in reality he
entertained feelings of animosity towards them. His Royal Highness then s*t out for Bampur
taking them with him. Having arrived at Pharag, the party took up their abode in the " fort
and the Princo sent out invitations to Sardar Dilawar Khan and other Sardars of the district
to come and seo him. Having done this the Princo aud Abul Fath Khan called Sardar
Hussain Khan and Murad Khau aud other threo to a privato interview aud told them that
Sardar Dilawar Khan was now before them, and that they must fulfil the promise they made