ملف ١٧٤٩\ ١٩٢١ "الخليج الفارسي:- ملخصات إخبارية للمقيمية البريطانية ١٩٢١-١٩٢٥" [ظ‎‎١‎٩‎٨] (٤٩٤/٤١١)

Haji Agha Norullah has telegraphed to the Prime Minister reoiw;
him to have Courts of Justice re-opened at Isfahan as soon as nossihl!
warned him against imitating the established Courts in Europe and ur Jd *1 ?
they should conlorm to Islamic laws and procedure. He has now ro • ia $
a reply that it is not the Mullahs’ business to interfere in these tnnfr
to dictate 10 Tehran what ought to be done. Steps were, however' bein t r i ° r
to open Courts of Justice shortly. ’ ng takeB
A number of peasants came in from Foreidan about the middle nf n,
month to com I .lain to the Govirnor-General of the oppression and
of his son Amir Mansur. The Governor-General has recalled his son W
refused to listen to. the peasants’ complaints and dismissed them on the »rm ]
that they had no right to complain in an irregular manner.
Ardistan reports that Sirdar Soulet arrived from his village and
warmly welcomed by the Governor and people of all classes. In his convT
sation with the people he expressed himself as a well-wisher of the Britwh
and British interests in Persia and I am informed that he has oonsiderahlp
influence m the Ardistan district.. It is satisfactory to note in this resneet
that the language he is now holding in Ardistan is in accord with the promises
he. made His Majesty s Legation before leaving Tehran and with what he
said to His Majesty s Consul-General when he visited him at Tehran.
u T h°- ® ot ° r i ous Seyyid Eusuf was captured near Ardistan and
brought into Isfahan on July 29th by the Gendarmes! Two official announce^
ments of his capture were published simultaneously on July 29th bv the
Governor-Genera and by the Officer Commanding the Gendarmerie, fhe
former stating that Eusuf was captured by the Bakhtiaris and latter that
he was taken by gendarmerie. The Governor-General is very angry at the
aim .° f |^ Suf S v ca F )ture - 11 would appear that both Bakhtiaris
and the gendarmerie did good work. s
This has had a most salutary effect on the security of all the roads and
very few robberies have taken place during the month. In view, however
of the probability of disturbances in Bakhtiari merchants have been warned
not to use the Bakhtiari road till the situation clears. d
o, f;" Iar Zafar and Au ' i , r Jan ? accompanied by Mudabber-ed-Dowleh and
Govemor-Geife’raL reCen y arnVed fr ° m Tehraa and are the of the
Kuli Khan Shushtari, who was imprisoned bv Sheikh Khazal for
a “"I k. -» iSa
noet "itn.'rnH, All i, K:l | an ’ S ° n Sair ‘sam-es SulUineh, arrived recently with the
ri l: 11 . wh .° , has an . ev il reputation and who uses his persuasive tongue
to poison men s minds against the British. Chiragh Ali Khan is said to have
SuUanThTJJeshed. t0 C ° 1IeCt S ° War8 t0 company Samsam-es-
Bakhtiari.
between Shahid S S ° (n l /.° ^, e 9 uarre ^i E g. There was a fierce dispute
Kadhkhu'das w 8 • T, the l3rother of Amir Ja “S at Burburud. Certain
Ilkhanianri THW 0° TlllageS attached to Sird ar Zafar by the
killiS hotbVf ihf Zafar s followers refused to accept them and ended by
of the Ilkhsmi 'o' nv W ° goos were sent by Shahab-es-Sultaneh for the use
Sirdar Zaftrr fn/ / 0 eg '0 and IS J rep0rted that the 8lms °f Sirdar Assad and
I be£ a« slid tff P n and ca P tured them. The tents of the Ilkhani and
iioegi are said to have been destroyed by fire at Chagakhor.
assistant^to ^nphl- 11 proceeded with Mrs. Linton and an European lady
returned ^ iVJaha11 t0 open a branch hospital there has
from the* KniHit-vf 0 ! 8 J 1 ?! f\ e en j coun ^ e red many difficulties and much hostility
the hospital TIip - Wl10 ° n 0ne occa8ion expelled the patients from
down the Brkish ^ adllkhuaa ^formed the Bishop that he had already torn
allow a hosnital ? - 0 v, a P r oy ous occasion and that he was not going to
a hospital which would no doubt be followed by the establishment of a