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Kerman, and as it appeared that bo had a peculiar intimacy with moat of tbe
principal charaotcrs of Baluchistan and was in tho habit of travelling about
from ono to another, not as a mendicant but with horse and rifle, and was
well-qualified to bo a political agent, it was considered advisable to make him
move on further afield. Ho was deported to Basrah in November.
Apparently a bastard Persian Balucli, though for the purposes of bcgr>in®
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man in October. From enquiries it appeared that ho had once served in tho
Anglo-Persian Oil Company, that lie had be;n for a short time, in 1915, in
the employment of Wassmuss at Bohbehan and that he had thence made his wav
here vid Yezd. As ho was a Persian subject and there was nothing definite
against him and he seemed too stupid to bo dangerous, steps were taken to r see
that ho carried out liis professed intention of proceeding on pilgrimage
to Meshed.
It has been found impossible to make headway with tho case. It is
universally stated here that tho actual
Marderen of Farukbabtb, eout>ia of the Agb*
Khan. murderers were Hasbim, son of Ghulam
Hussain, and Saiyid Maahalla, son of Saiyid Hassan. Beyond that, there aro
varying tales as to the connection of other persons with crime It may be that
the Iftikliar-us-Sadat lent himself to forwarding tho plot as believed by Colonel
Ducat, but if this is a fact, it would bo absolutely impossible to prove it. He was
already a persona grata with the South Persia Rifles when His Majesty’s Consul
arrived, and ho has made himself useful in various ways.* He is not a man
to place faith in, but he is at present strongly and usefully pro-British and
will probably remain so as long as the British are dominant. The late Hono­
rary Vice-Consul was, it is believed, inimical to him and to various others with
whom the relations of the Consulate in past years might otherwise perhaps
have been better.
Information has lately been received that the accused Hashiin is in impri­
sonment in Ispahan.
The following men who played an active part in the disturbances in
Kerman are imprisoned in Shiraz, where
Noted Democrat! concerned In tbe disturbance*
at Kerman in 1016. their cases are being investigated under
the supervision of His Majesty’s Consul:—
1. Mirza Hussain Khan, Rais-i-Tahdid.
2. Mirza Ghulam Hussain, Mudarris, and Editor of the “ Kerman,”
3. Abdul Qusim Shimr,
4. Nazim-ut-Tujjar.
6. Agba Mehdi, son of the last,
0. Amin-ui-Islan*.
7- Muhammad, Parrash of the Germans.
8. Mirza Agha Ahmad, Editor of the “ Dehqan,”
9. Mirza Muhammad Abul Path.
10. Mirza Muhammad Hussain, Baluch.
11. Sultan Muhammad Khan, of the late Gendarmerie.
12. Mustafa Khan.
The most important of the above is No. 11 and after him probably Nos.
4 and 6. 1
Some stir was caused in the town, in October, by tbe announce­
rs Mnjd.oi.Wna. ment that this man was being sent
down from Tehran to occupy the
post of the Rais-i-Muarif, He has had a long, distinguished, turbulent career
of bis own, and is brother of the Amin-ul-Islam mentioned in the last para­
graph. According to the Persian practice, the one brother joined the German
Democrat Cause in 1916 while the other sat on the fence in Tehran It is also
peculiarly Persian that the above qualifications, to which should be added an
indiscreet taste for the bottle, should be held to point him out as the one man to
jvhom tho upbringing pf the rising generation could be safely entrusted. On
tke other hand, a serious disqualification from the local Persian point of view*