'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [‎267r] (538/610)

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to Kazvin. A defending force of Cossacks had been_ driven
ofi and retired to Talaghan. At the end of July Riza Khan
commenced operations by the despatch of a Cossack force which
■re-captured Salambar. This success discouraged the rebels
and started the disintegration of their forces by the secession
of the 1 Sa’ad-ud-I)auleh with 800 men to the side of the Govern
ment, and the Government troops were enabled to advance
through Tunakabun to Rudisar and Langarud.
Another Cossack force was successful in completely routing
Amir Mu’aiyid in the Savad Kuh district of Mazandaran.
The collapse of the rebellion in Mazandaran and the Mahri-
i-Salas had thus been effected as suddenly as m 1018 after the
“ battle of Manjil Bridge,” and rt had receded back to its birth
place in the iumdes in the West of Gilan. The existence oi
L storm centre and nucleus for all Oommumshc and Bolshevik
schemes in North Persia suited M. o s e1 ’ Tr^an’s hand
to intervene as mediator and stay ^han s hand.
Riza Khan, however, refused to be deteired 1 . ^ mon
the Cossacks began to advance b^yon anJ p' t Q n 3 ^
the rebels again came to the aid of the Gov ™ e ^; n
October # 8hti^ broke^rat after a quMre t ^ ^
former 1 johmd t£tve— The Coss^hs and Kh® Qurban
occupied Rasht and on 18-19th October ^”^3
Kuchik Khan. A ““^^VpasSan and Juma Basar
m the capture by the Cossacits o h 600-700 casualties
after severe close quarter fighti g, unus ually sangui-
were inflicted on each side. T ^ e ^ o{ the Government, and
nary encounter was decisive m ta since
on 24th October Enzali ^s occupied^ ^ Cossacks slowly
the Bolshevik descent of 1 /forest to the West of Gilan and
worked their way through the tore , c n . -f: ve j n the
in December Kuchik Khan pens e a ]f " b Cossack
hills. Ihsanullah Khan took ship ^ Baku before^
occupation of Enzah, and Khalu C rank of Mai or '
into L Cossacks and he himself received the rank of Major
4 -m i, o vrm hopn at last completely Persian situa
The Jangali question appears to lia^^b^ ^ fchout tion, end of
and satisfactorily settled by the P • i British at-
foreign help or interference, whereas Russian and British
tempts to deal with it had alike proved unsuccessful
The situation in Khorasan has a j l ^ , ne 1 ] ! n {' 1 ° tribesmen in
Muhammad Taqi Khan was taken p ■
1 Son of Sipah Salar (VaH '(see r< i!age SSS^and toecome a rebel
he had been banished by Vusuq-ud-Dauleh (se i
leader.