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PZ 1217/1940 'Persia: Kurdistan tribal situation' [8r] (15/18)
The record is made up of 1 file (7 folios). It was created in 24 Aug 1933-16 Mar 1940. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT
PERSIA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
July 19, 1933.
Section 7.
[E 3928/3928/34] No. 1.
Mr. Mallet to Sir John Simon.—(Received July 19.)
(No. 330.) , . u. tv/ r * f ’
HIS Maiesty’s Charge d’Affaires presents his compliments to His Majesty s
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and has the honour to transmit
herewith copy of a" report by the acting military attache on the subject of tribal
situation in Kurdistan.
Tehran, July 1, 1933.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Tribal Situation in Kurdistan.
IT is reported that on the 6th June a body of Kurds, estimated at some
500 strong and said to be under the leadership of the first of Jafar ^ulta
sons, descended upon the Malieh (Finance) Office at Paveh near Javanrud and
stole the sum of 7,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
, as well as 5,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
which were there
in connexion with the making of a new road. They also killed some fifteen
Amnieh (road guards) and took away a quantity of iood stmns-
On the 7th June one complete regiment left Kermanshah m commandeered
o transport for Pavah, while a further battalion went out on the 9th June. On
representations to Tehran for reinforcements, the Bahadur Regiment of the
1st Infantry Brigade of the Central Garrison was sent to Kermanshah and
arrived there on the 9th June. _ •
2. Later reports stated that there were signs of the unrest spreadi g.
Sufi Beo\ who, after a successful onslaught by 1 ersian troops at the
commencement of May, was separated from his followers to °
Iraq territory, is reported to be contemplating joining the rebel Raids, and part
of the reinforcements from the capital have been sent to Kuh-i-Bamu to loca.e
and immobilise him and to detain the influential men in that district m oidei
to co^opeuig ^ p ersian re gular troops came into contact with the
rebels and in the engagement which followed twenty-five Government troops aie
reported to have been killed; the rebel casualties are not known.
4 A party of British and American travellers, however, proceeded thiough
this district between the 21st and 26th June without seeing signs of undue
military ^aetiv^y^^ j une a re p 0r t was received at Kermanshah that the raiders
had ‘ ak “;^e g e 22 nd I Tu q ne e a ifurther regiment the Fauj-LHamleh, arrived in
1 Kermanshah from Tehran and left the following day tor the Kuh-i-Bamu distnc ,
apparently to relieve the Fauj-i-Bahadur. ^ ^ TROTT,
A cting Military A ttache.
July 1, 1933.
[859 t—7]
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This file contains papers relating to the tribal situation in Kurdistan in 1933, and an alleged increase in Kurdish nationalist feeling in 1940 in Iraq and Iran. The main correspondents are Alan Charles Trott (Military Attaché in Tehran) in 1933, and Reader William Bullard (HM Minister at Tehran) and Basil Cochrane Newton (British Ambassador at Baghdad) in 1940.
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 9; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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