Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎248r] (498/1237)

with ualiMited Lend-Lease trueke j.jk! «i«rea eT&ilrble,
obt«iain* ea in«r«eslag «h«re or aU/trafne. of nfhieh it may
s?on bare a virtual monopoly. The ;*B.R. fleet leeLwoet
eatirely utilised la the treasaort of Oeverasseat good# sueh
«» sheet ’ittd tobacco, while Ireaeavtrmns is developing Ito
aerylce ror comerciel goods to all parts of Iran on through
bills or ledlag with faeiUtlee for iasur^aee* IreasoTtrwns
Is gaiaiag control of so incre^sia^ auitber of priv /-owned
trucks as It em provide the tyres or which K*8,P* is
or&otioaliy t>ut ot stock# r .'h© seise consider tion i^y shortly
enable it to take over ell bus services. The 8.9.B. fleet is
moreover insufficient to move &11 Ooveraaeat g ods sad Iran-
sovtrnas has been able to Impose onerous conditions for trans
porting grain frois Bostanabed to lianeh fend on other routes.
■ 7 • _L^h^is Io 1 iit/. The lauaicipal budget h^s not yet
• •* approved; end there Is ao eoaey avsilebl© to melatala
essential services* "aployee# hove received ao pay for the
two months and the Oovemor—General has repuerted the
Fiaeaee Leoert^cat to edveaee funds for this purpose oa his
responsibility* Ho reply has yet be‘n received* One possible
feifiloulty in obtaining budget eecepteaee is the feet that it
is unduly wieghed do^rii by the ^agee of people who wore tfeicea
on the >4enicipeUty pay-roll at the time of the Bussiaa oc
cupation to prevent disorder am who wortly erfor^ no nmetlem?
0x <i^d. Their discharge, the euthorities think, would
create trouble* Leo awhile a stole of coftplet e anarchy exists
in municipal affairs; and there is a wide-sprea ' belief that it
is being very nrofitubly exploited by a srall gang of officii Is.
. , Moncsy hfe« now be^n found {it was the last the &uniaiw?l~
isy anAj to pay arrears of wages to the employees of the
Government hospital who ware on strike. They fenve since
renamed work.
£79.
o vist
General
p ment# et c. T frois
the Soviet
m t anged the % the former Gonaular oar pork in
iabria should be handed ovwr to the hmeric ns for their person
nel spa vehicles while ec&pleyed on this service. One h rge
convoy has ulrendy left for the Couth and another will follow
shortly. Heaawhlle Tubriss Has been eonslderbbly enlivened by
the exuberance of . merlcan »<*.ldiers in seisreb of amusement*
Their conduct has given rise to jsany complaints and the town
as now been ol^oed out of bounds follow ing a coiaplfeint mfede
to the Hasslcas by the Govemor-aenerf*!, who could have i^ore
courteously adoressed himself in the first place to the
American Consul. The PussIans do not eppe? - disoleesed with
th® opportunity or pointing out to the local inhabitants that
after seoiag the mcrican troops, they must reallae now how *
well the Hussieas have always behavad. The conduct or the
Hjserleans has also bm- n unfavourably corspertid with that of the
British Indian troops rrevi usly in Tebrin.
Soviet vogvierclal Affa irs* The • ovist Cemmercisl Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
is holding consider ble stocks of sugar, piece-goods and
mntchee, which it is unable to dispose of owing 1 : to the fail in
wholeeele priors and the lack of demand.
There is some doubt as to the correctness of the report
th&t the Russians have been importing oats from the Soviet
niou for military needs. Their stocks of wheat and barley in
Iran - estimated at 4,000 tons, plus the £,500 tons of barley
to be acquired from the Iranian Government this year - are
miff latent for ttaasdifete raqul regents.
4 local spinning factory An East India Company trading post. recently irportfed 60 tons of
cotton from India with the usual oertiriente of freedom from
disease. 'hen it reached Tabriz t i« ussians contended that
some of the bales were diseased cud that ivme of the oonsi^n-
sent could be used. The owner app t led to the <3k>vernor-Oener 1,
who gfeve him the comfortlog assurance that if the Russians say
tkfet black Is white, or white black, It is so. Subsequently
the Loviet Consuls te infor^ea the Far-andar th^ t the objections