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Prime Minister, Vusuq-ud-Dauleh, supported by the advance of
the Cossacks in pursuit of the Jangalis, they returned to Kujur.
Dr. Hashmat and 200 Jangalis surrendered at Khurramabad
and Kuchik Khan was himself at Kashku about 4 miles distant,
Sa’id-ud-Dauleh was aware of his hiding place but kept it secret.
His obstruction to the Cossacks would have led to his arrest,,
but he forestalled them by taking flight, joined his father Sipah
Salar, who was Governor General in Azarbaijan, and became
Governor of Sarab. A detachment of Cossacks went on from
Khurramabad to Kujur and Salar Fatih, the leader of the rebels,
on receipt of a “tammnameh” from the Persian Government
countersigned by the British Minister, went to Tehran.
A Governor of Tunak§,bun with deputies in Kalaristaq
and Kujur was appointed by the Government independently of
Sipah Salar, and supported after the withdrawal of the Cossacks
by posts of Gendarmerie of the Mazandaran 1 2 battalion, which
were, however, bluffed out of the province by local gossip after
the Bolshevik inroad into Gilan.
Bolshevik ships touched at Shahsavar, the trading station
of Tunakabun, but no Bolshevik or Jangall force entered the
province, and the return of the Gendarmerie a few weeks after
wards was unopposed.
On the appointment of Nizam-ud-Dauleh (No. 50) as
Governor General of Mazandaran, the Mahal-i-Salas ceased to
be an independent Governorship and was attached, temporarily
at any rate, to that province.
Glldn. The Jqngall Movement.
Mirza Kuchik Khan, the leader of the Jangalis, was the son
of Haji Mirza Buzurg, a clerk in Rasht, and was born about 1878.
As a young .man he received religious instruction at Rasht and
became an -Akhund. In 1909 he Abandoned his religious
calling, took service with Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Muhi (No. 76), and joined the
‘ Mujahidin,’ the revolutionary force led by Sipah Salar (No. 31a),
to Tehran for the deposition of Muhammad Ali Shah. He was
again with Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Muhi in 1911 in the latter’s 3 ill-fated adven
ture to Astarabad against the Ex-Shah, was wounded and went
to Baku, whence he returned to Rasht and Tehran, and remained
with Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Muhi and others until after the outbreak of the
European war. In the spring of 1915 he determined to go to
1 Headquarters at Sari.
2 i.e., By laying aside the Akhund’s turban (Imameh) and donning the ordi
nary cap (Kulah), of the layman.
* See history of Mazandaran.