Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎245r] (492/1237)

willing to sign It*
. iit r aly a * oth in iSastam ana «*@tern ^srbai jsn
tftero nrs reoeatly been « d«creas« of <nreot ©vl*t interference
in local erfairs; and contacts between the Soviet end Persian
authorities have tended to beco e ao^e eanallsed through the
nroper officials with e consequent improvement in the general
^toosphara* In Tabri* the «BSPbesis is at present on cultural
I rather than politic*1 propaganda f the latter having become of
\e wore indirect nature and see ijr based on the sssu^rtlon
r o : bast (Per.) A Persian custom allowing an individual to seek asylum at a designated location. *be sm b| c .,mv t%m$ m ide^ or i
interest and dissipc ting by non-interference with the lit** of
the people the limate isosl^ dietrust of the Soviet system*
It is still Caucasian office s who ere everywhere the most
active propagandists and. In connection with the opening of the
new thisaian school, they have been stressing the advantages of
Turk! as compand with Persian end pointing to the good use
reacle of it in soviet zerbuijan for educational and rrof^ssi nal
purposes*
The ihj sian school is due to open on November 1st* and it
is said that 1,500 entries have been received* The headmaster.
All 4Skarov, has arrived rrora Soviet Aserbaijaa and the other j
teochers are on thalr way* There la a rurtour that the opening
or the school may however be no*tpnnad until agreement la
reached with the Persian authorities* It appears that the
Govejnor-Oenerel has pointed out to the Soviet authorities
that no farsian pupils can be aetapted unless the permission
of the inistry of ducsti n ia first obtained aM the Gov
ernment h®a backed up this view* The Ministry of Education
has now asked for a syllabus, which has b^ en forwarded* K
crucial point is likely to be the amount of Ustructioa in
the Persian language.
The Russia a bookahors mentioned in the last' Diary ha a now
been opened. This is complement**ry to the soviet oublicltv
shop.
Russian siining ongineera have visited Ardobil to examine
the oil-bearing possibilities or the district* They have
since returned to Tehran.
The an bar or soviet troops in i xerbaijan is generally
thought to nov© decreased*
'MS&IMl* H.M.Consul-General toured estern Axerbaijen
from 'Mptm'mr gdth. -DOtft., visiting Khoi, Renal eh and
ahabsd. A separate report on this tour ha® been submitted to
K.M. .■ sibassador*
The Governor-General at aexaieh, sarhsng 1/urakhehani,
passed through Tabriz on route ror Tehran on October 10th.
273. Other 'u.Mlsh ffaira * The Govcrnor-Genersl at Tabriz
ttas been asked to trees the sender of verl us tole&resis sent
rrom Tabriz to Tehran purporting to emanate from Ham** Rashid.
’• Is - proposal on root to nsk the Hii-nlens : or ue^ission
to move the ga rison from Misndusb to llahsbed for the winter
Months on the grounds that there is no proper barrack eeeom-
modution at the former piece* Meanwhile the garrison et
I’lendueb has been re la f creed*
In addition to the Persian troops, to the ziumber of about
300 t sent to Maku to deel with the Jelsli Kurds with hard-wctt
Toy1st consent, the Governor-General »t Rezaiah wished to send
10D gendarmes. The Soviet authorities t ere, however, unable
to agree that this additlonttl reinforce ant was necessary.
>artip Htishstsad*s incursion into Mahabad (see paragraph
; o6, Diary 1^0.16} h#& been strongly disapproved by both
Goveraors-Oeasral in Azerbaijan, who resented the unn« oessary
trouble he created* The Hezeieh , Keivan f has also published a
str:n v from Gael Uchamed and other Hahabcd lairds
ag&inet the tre tMont meted out to then and his threats to
destroy 'Mahsb&d on the pretext that they desire Kurdish Inde-
pendence.
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