Page 198 - PERSIAN 8 1912_1920

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and to commend bis purity of motives to His Majesty’s Consul, t*
rIbo, it is believed, made friendly overtures to the gendarme officers. I,?
is much in itself but negatively it is a great improvement on liis attitude i %
1912. It will be interesting to see later what sort of practical r 5i
are established between the Afsbars and the gendarmes. * ^
Sirjan had on 1912 badly by revolting against the Amir-i-MufnU
.... nephew, the Salar Amjad, and
him out of the place after a Govern*1rn[n.8
of only 18 days. They alleged excesses and oppression on liis part wV i ^
had not had the time, whatever his will may have been, to perpetrate, cr .le
appears to have possessed a number of rich families who had acquired!S5?
wealth by methods familiar in Persia but irregular, and were outraged at °i!r
idea of being forced to part with it by the same methods. ° 1
Hussain Khan.—Buchaqchi is a worthy member of that frateruif
robbers. Arrested for his share in the rebellion of 1912, ho had been alio i
to oscape by the Adl-us-Sultan (the Sirdar Nusrat’s brother). He was now
robber, a rebel, and a revenue defaulter. a
Abdul Hussain Khan was an irresponsible youth who had surrounded
himself by a gang of armed “ne’er do weels” by whom he allowed his actioi 8 to
be governed.
Others weTO Kajqf Kuli Khan and the Kashidrvs-Sultan. In sprint at
the instigation of these ruffians, a large number of Sijanis seut in a petition
to the Consulates and chief authorities in Kerman demanding that the Amir-i.
Mufakham should not enter their country. This has, of course, elicited only
a snub and the ringleaders say well to enter into negotiations with the Amir
•while he was in the Afshar country. It was believed that affairs had been prac­
tically settled, but whether the Amir’s domands had been too big as was
alleged or merely from fear that they might become so, as soon as he entered
the district,- the merchants raised all the forces they could muster and took
to the hills. It appears that some skirmishing and more negptiations took
place with the result that the persons Hussain'Khan and the Raslud-us-Sultan
were secured. The former however escaped, leaving the Sirdar Nusrat, who,
for reasons best known to himself, had gone surety for 10,000 tomans for him,
to face the music. The Sirdar had no such sum of money and was much
perturbed to find himself pressed on one hand by the Amir and taken to task
on the other by His Majesty’s Consul for improper conduct in going surety as a
high Government official for a notorious rebel. He spent several agitated weeks
in the country after the Amir had left before he obtained some sort of guarantees
for the payment of the forfeited security. The end of the story is not known,
but the money never found its way into the coffers of the State. Murad Kban
was appointed to the official chieftainship of the Buchaqchi in place of Hussain
Kban, who continues to proclaim his own virtues and demand restoration.
Abdul Hussain Khan's property and estates were forfeited. Subsequently
he was wounded it is said by his own men, and was brought in for medical
treatment to Kerman where he still remains.
The Raskid-us-Sultan was flogged and stripped of his property. H0 *as
then brought in town where he remained in confinement for several months,
no one caring to go surety for him. On release he raised some claim agains
the Revenue Department. His Majesty’s Consul obtained for him an interns
with Mr. Lccoffre who bad declined to see him, but the onlv result was tfl
the Rashid vent away further embittered saying that Mr. Lccoffre had P
tended not to understand Persian. Such are the ruses of Persians and officu
of the Persian Government.
The Governor who replaced the Salar Arajad at the beginning of the ye*J
and has remained in office throughout it, is Muhtasham-ud-Dowleh, br°ta0
8irdar Nusrat, but he appears to have counted for very little in the c
taken of affairs in the district-'
Rafflinjan has not presented any affairs of special political i»P®r . /0i.
«... The Salar Amjad and his Bakhtin ^
* lowers appear to have looked for na®