مجموعة ١٢٠/٢٨(٢) "بلاد فارس. الأهواز - اليوميات القنصلية" [و‎‎٦‎٥] (٢٢٤/١٢٩)

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has yet/
gone to G-atch baran*
Muzaffar Ariya f i 7 Khosraw Alan^dt. Isfcanaar
Jharami an* Malik Mansour ^asht-Bavii Aave all bi.rne* a
ioc'Jinent swearing to consult one ancAirer ahd co-operate
in fill matters? especially in connection with their landss
and also to serve their Government and their country.
There appear to have heen two main ideas hehind this
exemplary document: (i) Malik Mansour thought it woul*
help him in getting hetter terms out of the government
and the oil company; "because hitherto »ne argument against
su;h help has "been that if Malik Manser is given any
thing the same must "be given t© Muzaffar Araya 5 i an*
ot^.er rivals: and (ii) Khosraw hopes to enlist the
support of the other three in his unending dispute with
hU half-hrother Abdullah Zarghampour,
Id, Khosraw ^oir Ahme*.i went to Tehran on the 20th
November on personal business and also to declare his
allegiance to the Government and his love for the
Denocrat nartyc
11; A small rai* "by Quli Khan Lirawi near Khairaha*
anc "Rehbehan early in November is reperteal by Khcsraw,
wh<se tribesmen were the sufferers; the assailants are
sa:d to have numbered about two hundre*.®
12, The Bahmei leader, Muhanma*. Ali Khalili, reports
a rai* by Na*er Quii (cousin of Abul-Qasem ^akhtiar) on
th 3 Berne is of Deshmuk at the en* of beptember last; he
also states that the bakhshdar of Izeh has lately been
cJtange*, the present official being Iskandar ^aba Ahme«.i.
PiKTlKb
15. The opening of the Democrat Party at Khorrarnshahr
ai the l^th November has been reporte* elsewhere. One
-.an hardly say that any important political activity has
^one on: the Governor General says he has been aske* by
'he Prime Minister to take personal charge of the
temocrat party f s affairs in the province, but he has
receive© n® detailed instructions, and in particular no
firm *iate for the commencement of the elections^ Very
livtle local interest in the elections is being taken,
ar* no one knows who the candidates are, or will be,
1-# A branch of the Democrat party was inaugurate* at
D< on the 26th Poverrfber, by a certain Gholam Reza
A?sb.ai n a ichtiyan«
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15* A young man named ^anuchihri has recently been
appointed statiormaster at Doiu*, and has been cleaning up
various undesirable elements in the railv/ay staff there
with the help of the chief of Railway Police, Col*Al-Taha:
eleven ^htdeh sympathisers an* propagandists, mostly of
Caucasian origin, have in this way been sent to Tehran*
1:. The Tudeh party at Burujir* is in eclipse: the
nctorioufi Tabriz! Amir-Khim recently visited vurujir* an*
sent away the Tudeh organiser Burbur; a successor name*
Ahne* Danir, recently expelled from Abadan, is shortly to
arrive. The lengths to which the Tudeh propagandists are
prepare* to go is well shown by the remarkable series of
lies an* absurd fabrications contained in an article ir. the
newspaper f, Rahbar” of the 3rd November, seeking to prove
/that