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MiHBHBD, 30th Oeptemhar 1946.
POLITICAL D I A B Y Nc.9
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POLITICA L BaBTIBS '
178. Agha Bahlmiyan has hsen'replaced hy Agha
Haerizadeh as organiser of the Hlzh-i-Democrat in
Khorasan. The immediate result has heen the entry
into the Party of a number of wealthy ana influential
persons who have subscribed' to election funds ana are
cooperating wholeheartedly with it.
179. The Tudeh paper ^Basti'* '•continues its diatribes
against the, British, and in its issue of the 15th
Sept -mber it published an account of the transpor t of
grain from zabul to India- No such thing has been
done, but this deliberately untruthful article has
obviously been pubdished in ord'-.r, to make people
believ^ that the' British are depleting ^th(3 iiheat
resources of Se is tan when the people of tht Qjainat
are dying of starvation. It is understood that the
surplus grain of Seistan is actually being taken to
Kerman province where there is also a shortage.
/defeated
180. The Irano-Soviet Cultural Society celebrated
the 3rd September as the day of victory over Japan.
A me 3ting was held at the Shir-o-Khus shid Club to
which the Governor-Oensral, leading Persian officials
and foreign consular officers were invited. Iranian
im mb( : rs of the ,Society read spe ;Oh»;*5 and poems in
pr a i s e of So v is t Bus si a an d the B ed Army , and !3o v i e t
films were-' shown and photographs displayed of, the
physical culture rally in Moscow. In the speeches it
wa s ampha sized tha t t he Bed xirmy /Ja Pa n ana no o r e a i t
was given to the Americans and British^ in fact tht ir
efforts in the war against Japan weiv not even
mentioned.
181. Bef .para 168. Agha 3huh*& ; Firdausi, the n =w
Tuduh Dir -ctor of Education has jhsuiiss.rd or translDrred
a large number of subordinates and rt placed th-m by
Tudeh members. He is violently p^d-Bussian ana sprate
r • guli r ly at Tudeh me ?tings.
LOCAL ixffAIBS
182. On the night of the 23rd September the Meshed
sugar factory An East India Company trading post. at Abkuh caught fire* Police ana
military were rushed out but in spite of their efforts
they were unable to get the fix ef unde-r control. Thr
factory An East India Company trading post. was getting ready to tatee in this year’s sugar
be -t crop which is said to be a bumper one of about
100,000 tons yielding about 12/ 14000 tons of sugar.
The burning of tie factory An East India Company trading post. is very severt blow to
th•: cultivators who will now o® unable to aispose of
their be rt crop^the sugar jguppia.y of Khorasah will
also now be very gieatly reduced; and some of the
3,000 employe-s of the- factory An East India Company trading post. will form a larg: army
of Meshed unemploy-d. Hie cause of the fire is not
known but suspicion is very s trongly dirtoteu against
t h s Hi zb- i~ Tudh who s e me mb erg at t h e s ug ai f a c to r y
were known to b< causing trci^bli among the other
employers* Their motive is ^aid to b- to cause unitst
in tht Province and make trouble for the Democart
Party A