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Coll 28/18 ‘Persia; Diaries; Meshed intelligence Summaries 1931–’ [69r] (137/299)
The record is made up of 1 file (148 folios). It was created in 16 Mar 1931-12 Oct 1934. 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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Meshed Intelligence Summary No. 6 for the period
ending 9th June 1932.
I. Khorasan.
1. Soviet Activities. —D wring the month
there have been a series of small incidents
which have somewhat aggravated the rela
tions between the Soviet representatives
and the local authorities.-
(а) At the end of April, one, Ghanioff,
a Soviet commercial representative at
Kuchan, was summoned to Meshed by order
of the Persian Government and was order
ed, on account of his subversive propaganda
activities, to leave Persia within four days.
He proceeded to Tehran to protest.
(б) The Soviet Consul General held a
reception on May 1st to which, in addition
to local Bolsheviks, he had invited a certain
number of Persian merchants. 1 he Chief
of Police posted a posse of his men at the
Consulate gates with orders to prevent all
Persian subjects from entering.
The Consul General telephoned to the
Chief of Police and complained that the
latter had no right to interfere with friends
visiting the Soviet Consulate on an official
occasion ; to which the Chief of Police
replied that the day was not recognised by
the Persian Government as an official oc
casion, that no Persian Officials had either
been invited or had called, and that the
Persian subjects in question, having no
official status, had no business to do so.
Subsequently the Soviet Consul General
called a meeting of local Bolsheviks at the
offices of the TORGPRED, at which it was
decided to address a protest to the Persian
Government regarding the anti-Soviet
attitude of the Chief of Police.
The Soviet Consul General’s opinion
regarding the views of the Chief of Police
is a correct one ; there is reason to believe,
however, that his protest has met with
scant sympathy. The Chief of Police is
loyal and efficient and is held in considerable
esteem by the Persian Government and by
the Governor General.
(c) In the middle of the month a promi
nent member of the Russian emigre society
died and the Soviet Consul General objected
to his being buried in the Christian Cemetry.
He was, however, informed officially that his
intervention in the matter was unwarrant
able.
The Soviet Consul General proceeded to
Russia on a visit, as a result of discussions
of a nature undisclosed between himself
and j,he GoYernor General^ in which their
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| Received 18JUL .j32
respective views had proved irreconcilable.
He returned after a stay of a few days in
Askhabad.
{d) There are indications that the G. P. P •
are trying to establish communication be
tween Soviet Russia and India via Meshed-
Zahidan through the medium of apparent
ly privately owned commercial lorries.
The following men, residents of Bajgiran,
received financial assistance from the Soviet
to purchase lorries in Tehran : Mulla Kam-
bar, Hassan-Qurbanov, Ghulam Hussain
Haji Rahim. These gentlemen run a
profitable smuggling business, and operate
chiefly between the Soviet border and
Tehran. Their lorries, however, have done
one or two trips to Zahidan and they are
said to intend setting up a permanent
service between Meshed and Zahidan.
The Central Bureau of the G. P. U. has
called upon its agents along the frontier to
furnish detailed up-to-date intelligence re
ports regarding local resources, grain dumps,
road, telegraph and phone communication,
frontier posts etc. These reports are to be
submitted by June 1st. The Persian au
thorities became aware of the receipt of
these instructions early in May and have
been actively engaged in the matter.
II. Central Asian Soviet Republics.
2. Baisun. —An individual who had serv
ed 2 years in the Militia and who arrived
in Meshed at the beginning of May, gives
the following information :—
(a) Garrison. —
11th Tnrkistan Regiment.
2 Squadrons, 79th Cavalry Regiment.
1 Field Artillery Division.
(Note.—E arly in April the 11th Regiment and the
Artillery were given a warning order for a move to Ter-
mez.
G. P. U. .. 150.
Governor .. Mirza Salim Beg of
Bokhara.
O. C. Troops .. Babkin.
G. P. U. .. Budnoff.
(b) Aerodrome.—An extensive aero
drome with barracks and wireless is situated
North-East* of the town. There is inter
mittent aerial communication with Du-
shambe.
Baisun is an air post of call on the re
cently opened Tashkent-Baisun-Dushambe-
Baljuan-Kulab air mail service, which has
two planes a week in each direction.
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Printed and typewritten fortnightly intelligence reports, submitted by staff at the British Consulate at Meshed [Mashhad]. Reports dated up to June 1931 were submitted by the British Military Attaché at Meshed (Major Leo Steveni). Reports after June 1931 were submitted by the Secretary to the British Consul at Meshed (Major Lancelot George Werge Hamber; Major Richard Henry Stevens).
The reports are organised into three geographic regions: 1) Khorasan province in Persia [Iran] (including Meshed); 2) Herat province in Afghanistan; and 3) the ‘Central Asian Republics’ (corresponding to present-day Turkmenistan, as well as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan). Each report is further arranged under miscellaneous subject headings that include:
- military affairs, including conscription
- administrative and civil affairs
- economic affairs
- trade and customs
- roads and communications
- specific to Khorasan: Persian officials, refugees from Russia, and Soviet activities in Persia
- specific to the Central Asian Republics, the activities of the Basmachi movement
Minute papers are enclosed in front of many reports, containing notes made by 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. staff commenting on items of note in the report.
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. The subject headings and subheadings in each report are numbered with Roman numerals. Reports dated to September 1931 have indexes at the front, which refer to these headings and subheadings.
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