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of des P atchNo - 40of 16ti February 1929. [Serial No. (3,)
T ° tncbsure^ 0ffiCe, LOn<1 ° n ’ N0 ’ 316 ° f Uth ^,30. with
Despatch from His Majesty's Minister, Tehran, to the Forfh m rw
London, No. 316, dated the 11th July 1930 ° REICN ° mc E>
M ith reference to my despatch No. 83 of Februarv Ifith iqoq it. 1 t
Serial No. (31)] in which I had the honour to relate certain di’f [EncIosur e. of
Bolshevik activities in Pers'a, I beg to enclose herewith a copy of a fortT'' r< j^ ari4iQ 8
received from His Majesty’s Vice Consu at Resht, No 27-ConfideSl o^ J &
bth last, m which additional information is given as to the metlmH« i ' une
«b. Boleheviks i„ Gil„ to „b,„„ ol f.SX'SS,?
2. I am told by a former Majlis Deputy for Pahlevi iEnzelil th„e n, ; ,, ’
is one which has been employed in Persia already for some years and that h
of two youths who availed themselves of this offer of “ education ’’ a f ° W3
ago. He further informs me that the Russian school in Tehran offers friend,m 13
tion in Russia to its most promising pupils and that that simply means educatkin fn
the approved methods of spreading Bolshevik propaganda. education in
3. The Soviets are generally believed to devote much care and attention in
their schools for propaganda especially the school at Tashkent which is fom ent^
^ y out ^ s from Eastern peoples but if one may judge of general results lit- h i
way made in Persia the success is at present hardly commensuratetith it
labour and expense involved. ^ commensurate with the time.
Copies of this despatch and enclosure have been sent to 1 r*
India, His Majesty’s High Commissioner for fiSdad m d H^T 6 "
Ambassador at Moscow, by bag. H X) ^ naaa and ^is .Majesty’s
Letter from His Majesty’s Vice-CW<sttt Arn t?' tt t.
*»»... t™, b». 1, Co ““ " £. M “ ST, ' S:
recently , M ,d t to O mTb]°the a G 0 ™[ r n“l s '' bsta h nCT 'J some remark s tint were'
on an aspect of Bolshevik propaganda. } be ° f lnterest as Growing light
mandate entithng thm^o^ecommend ? a ^Tv? , four P eo P. le tere folding a sort of
munist orthodoxy they vouch foredncnf ndlda * es >. for whose reliability and com-
in Moscow, where presumably nronacrnr. r°f at ^, 0V1 . et ® x P ense an oriental school
Agha Kashavaz, Shirinoff, Mfrza^ fsmaiT K} 6 TheSG P ersons are Kerim
matter came to his notice over the case nf n ^’ liabran g’ and Siahmak. The
applied for a visa to go to Russia for omn ^ 0Ur ^ I J ian ^ amed Sadiqi, who recently
divulging that his income 0 wa^Tn toSpS moS^ 11 ’ Whil6 ^ ^ Same t,me
and previous activities^o/hisl^thelocal 6 B . asl11 of tte Russian consulate,
graph 7 of my despatch No 7 of the W ° rld Were re P orted in P ari *-
Serial No. (3f) of File No 17 N /o^ «v Feb ™ ar y. 1929 [annex, of enclosure to
member of Rustransit and now ,i;L , bh ® noft ^ his brother-in-law, used to be a
Russian silk business here ShabrZ of Z^kgostorg that runs the
associated with the Bolsheviks in tlW^ 18 a - eaC ] 1 ff-’ 1 a ne £ ro Lalf-caste, and was
of the Fisheries. Kashavaz is renortp 1 ) 11 ! 9 ^ 1011 ^ ^e i an * Siahmak is an employee'
400 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. per month of which 1 £ rec ei\e from the consulate a salary of
paganda. ^ ’ 1 Whwh lo ° are hls personal allowance and 250 for pro
vided for doing it offers a^ertain^nttresr^ ^ M ° SC0W; but tbe machinery pro-