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Chief of Police, NSGAHBAN, in order to cope with the situation.
The ^udeh have the active support of If0 VLAVIzjADEH, former Governor
of Eorujird end a notoriously cori'upt administrator and virulent
intriguer; T'ovlavizadeh, at present without a job, has taken up
residence in Talayer end is encouraging the Tudeh to stage open
demonstrations more frequently. The party received a further
stimulus recently from the visit of RAHL.I NAIvIVaR, editor of the
m ehran newspaper “Shahhaz". Namvar came to Hamadan on March 29th.
LJf’TudilAh, a prominent landowner and enemy of IfALEK IIajuANI, Majles
f deputy for lalayer, is also one of the leading lights in the Tudeh
t arty there. The ^Ilihan’* party is making a show of opposition,
and both sides hold meetings around the main square.
12. Ja^ILI, former Governor of Assadabad, now holds a similar
r ost in I.eh&vand. ISMAIL zAI’FAhl (LnllAri-db-SOLT^u^j , the other
I'ajles deputy for Malayer, is at present in hehsvand, where he
holds large properties.
13. In Lalayer too the bazaar is very slack. Little business
is being done in Malayer 1 s chief exports - almonds, raisins, walnuts
and opium. There are, however, expectations of good crops of the
latter, especially round Nehevand.
Economic.
14. Between March 5th-7th the Acting Vice-Consul distributed
2,300 yds. of A.I.R.F. cloth among poor schoolchildren in the
Government and National schools. 350 boys and 250 girls received
lengths of khaki or poplin material respectively.
15. The present state of the bazaar is, in the opinion of
many people, the worst since the entry of Allied troops into
Persia in 1941. Prices generally remain at a phenomally high level,
although the drop in the price of ’roghan’ from 400 Rials per
kilos to 250 Rials is a welcome relief. Merchants are going
bankrupt almost daily, and the withdrawal of the bulk of their
credit by the Imperial Bank and the Bank-i-MeHi at the end of the
current financial year has further aggravated an already unstable
situation. Recently several trucks loaded with sugar left Tehran
bound for Ramadan, but later turned up in Meshed or Tabriz. This
serious loss has been hushed by the merchants involved.
16. The Governor, Salahi, the Mayor, An. JAILuNbrihlil, and
the Chief of Police, A~Aik.AL, recently launched a drive to prohibit
the sale of liquor on unlicensed premises.. They now claim that the *
practice of shopkeepers and tea-house proprietors of selling by
pegs any bottles of liquor they happen to have in stock has been
stamped out.
T-ritish Interests*
17. Mr. A.W. Davis, H.M. Consul, Kermanshah, visited
Ramadan on March 26th, returning to Kermanshah the following day.
American Interests .
12. Captain Roosevelt, American Military Attache, Tehran,
visited Hamadan on March 30th. /
Acting Vice-Consul,
Hamadan.
2nd April 1946.
Distribution :- Foreign Office.*/
H.M. anbassy, Tehran.
H.M. Consulate-General, Tabriz.
H.M. Consulate-General, Ahwaz.
H.M. Consulate, Kermanshah.
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