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38 PEJtSIAN QTJLV ADMINISTRATION REPORT
tho part of himself and Hussain Khan, son of Said Khan, to accept a Persian
Governor appointed from Kerman. General Sykes, with the concurrence of
the Persian authorities in Kerman, recommended that the Akram-us-Saltunah,
a Bam notable, should he appointed Governor and proceed with a 6iuall body
of Persian sowars to Bnmpur, whore ho should set about collecting revenue
on a reduced scale. This proposal was, however, negatived by the Government
of India and the Akrain-us-Saltanah was informed that his services would
not be required. Major Keyes, in Scptombor, complained that Bahrain Khan
had been renewing his invitation to the Governor-Goncral of Kerman to
appoint a Persian Governor and that correspondence had been passins between
Bahrain Khan and the Sardar Nusrat and tho Akram-us-Saltauah. The matter
was followed up and His Majesty’s Consul judged it advisable to summon the
Akram-us-Saltanah to Kerman in order to keep him. out of evil or the suspicion
of evil. It appeared later that at least the correspondence complained of had
taken place while General Sykes’ proposal was still on the tapis. Tho Akram-
us-Saltanah was detained for moic than a month in Kerman in a friondly way,
and was then given permission, on 29th November, to return to Bam.
There is no reason to believo that the Persians would now' be the least more
capable of governing Baluchistan unaided than they have been during the
last ten years.
A number of matters connected with British interests have remained as
a legacy fiom the German-cum*Democrat
RKtiiti Interest*.
occupation, to some of which brief refer.
encc may be made.
Soon after they quitted Kerman, in December 1915, claims were submitted
British subjects* cists ob ftctsuut or iM* of by the follow ing parties for the property
property. which they had been forced to abandon
and which they then saw no prospect of seeing again :—
Lieutenant-Colonel Ducat, His Britannic Majesty’s Consul.
The officials of the Indo-European Telegraph Department
Some of the members of the Church Missionary Society.
These have since been received in this Consulate.
The claim of the Imperial Bank of Persia was entered in Tehran ; and
no claim has yet been submitted by the Oriental Carpet Manufacturers, Limit­
ed, there being some doubt as to whether tho transfer of the Company’s goods
to an American Company before they were seized was or was not valid, and
whether the claim should be made through the American or the British
authorities.
A large amount of the property for w'hich the claims were made has
been recovered, but the owners arc not here and it is at present impossible
to state exactly how the account stands. Pinal approved claims will be even­
tually dealt with through the office of the Controller of Hostile Trading Con­
cerns in Basrah and met from the sale-proceeds of Enemy property seized in
Basrah, the Gulf and Kerman. The latter comprises some 209 carpets and
office and other furniture lately the property of che German Company and
Al. Bruggmann.
When possible the carpets will be sent to Basrah to he disposed of under
the orders of the Controller, Hostile Trading Concerns, to whom the local sale-
proceeds of the other properly will also be remitted.
A number of claims for loss sustained by Persian sub jcots were submitted
to General Sykes, and these it will probably be possible to meet from the funds
realised locally from political fines exacted from, persons found guilty of
offences during the enemy occupation.
A few merchants connected with Kerman had been placed on the Statu-
Th«MBiiok LUt." toy list of persons with whom British and
Indian subjects are forbidden to trade.
Some had been removed beforo His Majesty’s Consul's arrival, ono proved
to be a mythical individual, and tho removal of the names of “ Surushian
ft Kayanian” has already been referred to. There now remains only one iudi*
yidual Meshedi Ismail, SalmasjL