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PZ 5369/32 'Persia: movements of George Woodward alias Leonid Tour-Pavlikovski' [‎39r] (19/30)

The record is made up of 1 file (13 folios). It was created in 13 Aug 1932-27 Oct 1932. 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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flzyi ot • rutoy of a oonolAorablo olio Md I loft tMB otlioro
ao a oonaoquenco# X than traTollod axtaasiT*!/ in Bura&
proopootlng for a mining oil^* ^ 1 pm;; ; ^ en jTl * vri!l
a mining company aftor tho oito waa found* The?® were
oooaalona oh an X auooeodod in mahing gold from rirer aand*
wandering lifo waa Tory hard and X dooidt^ to go to
Bombay in the hop# of finding employ man t there • and after
earning rupee a fire or aix hundred» to return with that
capital to Burma# da my paeaport had expired I wrote to
a friend in Shanghai to obtain for me a new paaeport on the
etrength of the eld one end cent him for that puxpoee Ra#SV* #
X reeeiTed from him the paaeport X am holding now# Hi a n&m#
la Vladimir OrohinnikoT* X cannot tell you hie preeent addreaa
hat he oould he certainly found through the Rue elan Refugee
Committee in Shanghai which ia headed hy Mr* Qroeae* the
ex-’Rueelan Ambaaeador in China. X left Rangoon on my way to
Bombay in December 1931. X reached Calcutta aa a stowaway with
mnbethe aaaiatanoe of m the German crew of the a#a# Trifele»
whom X got to know in the Rangoon dooka# I remained in
Calcutta for about a fortnight# llring in Kldaerpore Docks.
X met there two Ruaaiflfie working on an daerlean motor Toeaol.
X think her name was the M#V# Potter. They gars me some
clothing and Ra#lO/». X purchased for Re#8/- a railway ticket
for a etatlon between Bolaopur and Hagpur# Prom there X
trarelled to Bagpur by geode train# 1 got some aaelstanoo
in Bagpur from the Catholic Bieolon and from the Deputy
Corami so ion or# who garo mo a ticket to Bombay and Rs# 3/8/-.
the ticket was purchased under his orders loy police Sergeant
Bert on. I remained in Bombay for a fortnight# sleeping in the
streets. X received Rs. 2/» from the Bombay European Relief
Association. By this time X got thoroughly disgusted and
tired of my life of starvation in a foreign country and X
decided to return to Russia though X did net expect much
from the life there and had no Bolshevik ayaqpathlea# X left
Bombay for Ihraohl as a stowaway by a Swadeshi ateamer (I think
her
mmbm—■B aigga

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The file contains papers regarding Leonid Tour-Pavlikovsky,a Russian citizen travelling under a false Romanian passport with the nameGeorge Woodward.

Much of the file consists of the subject’s statement toBombay police explaining how and why he obtained the passport and detailing hissubsequent travels.

The remainder of the file includes a requestfrom Herbert Aubrey Francis Metcalfe, Foreign Secretary in the Government ofIndia, for verification of the subject’s movements in Persia, and replies fromthe British Consulate, Shiraz, and Vice-Consulate, Mohammerah [Khorramshahr].

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1 file (13 folios)
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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 (used for referencing) commences at f 30, and terminates at f 44, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

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