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the provisions of the Frontier Convention of 1937 : the periodical meetings
between frontier officials never take place because the Iranians will not come,
and no attempt has been made by the Iranian Government to remove undesirables
from areas near the frontier.
9. Iraqi Interests.
According to the Iraqi Charge d'Affaires, no progress whatever has been
made with the delimitation of the land frontier between Iraq and Iran. He
says that the Iranian representative is an aged man, who never agrees to go to
the points wffiere boundary pillars ought to be erected. He believes that the
Iranian Government are deliberately delaying the work because they wish to
secure their gains in the Shatt-el-Arab region, and that if the river portion of the
frontier were delimited first the Iranian Government would never take any
interest in the land frontier. The head of the Iraqi half of the Iraqi-Iran
Delimitation Commission has come to Tehran to try to smooth out the difficulties.
10. Italian Interests.
The Italian Minister has complained in public that his efforts on behalf of
Italian trade are constantly baffled by the German Minister, and that if this
continues he will complain to his Government. Personal relations between the
two ministers are difficult, because the Italian is a Roman Catholic and the
German indulges in vulgar anti-religious abuse.
11. German Interests.
(1) Reference Intelligence Summary No. 12 (current), Appendix A. The
following additions, amendments, and errata are notified :—
Block Hochtieff (Construction Company)—
Block wart J. Wiedermann.
Block Varnak (gas mask factory An East India Company trading post. )—
Blockwart Vollbrecht.
Organisation of Nazi leaders—
No. 9. For Widemann, J., read Wiedermann, J.
(ii) A Herr Goeritz, specialist in locomotives and lately discharged from the
German Tank Corps, in which he was a sergeant, states that the German tanks
carry a limited quantity of special armour-piercing ammunition marked with a
red ring for use on pill-boxes, &c.
(iii) German literature and pictorial propaganda papers continue to arrive
quickly and regularly in considerable quantities in Iran. These consist in part
of the following publications, all extremely well produced :—■
a) i ran-i-Nou, in Persian, edited by Shahrukh.
(2) Signal. War pictorial in all European languages.
(3) Rien que la Verite, in French.
(4) Weltluftmacht Deutschland, in German, French and English.
As no newspaper mails have been received in Iran from England for the past
eight weeks, no counter-propaganda is possible at present.
12. Obituary.
His Excellency Ali Quli Ansari, Mushavir-ul-Mamalik ((Military Attache’s
Personalities No. 30 and Foreign Office Personalities No. 23), died at Tehran on
the 13th August. His eldest son, Abdul Hussein Massoud Ansari, is Iranian
Consul-General at New Delhi.
13. Movements of Members of Foreign Missions.
Reference Intelligence Summary No. 16, paragraph 14. As certain foreign
legations have requested an explanation of this restriction, the Ministry for
Foreign Affairs now states that the order applies only to the frontiers of
Azerbaijan and Gurgan.