Coll 28/120(2) ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular Diaries’ [‎29r] (57/224)

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BRITISH OFFICIALS o
lo H 0 M 9 Ambassador, who visited Phuzistan from 1he 31st
May to the 3rd June, proceeded to Agta Jari on tne Jnd June
and came on to Ahwaz on that day* x:e left tr/e .b ai.-io evening
for Mas Jid i oulerfoman* He was accompanied'by th^Oornmercial
Counsellor and Mr 0 Audesley, Labour attache from Cairo*
2* Section (1) of the Diary for May should have been
completed by saying that the Consul General returned to Ahwaz
by Train on the 20th May*
3 e Mr*RoA#Skinner, acting vice Consul, visited Burijird
from the 20th to the 24th June*
4* Major Leadbitter, proceeding to Tehran to take up the
appointment of Assistant Military Attache, passed through
Ahwaz on the 16th June*
VISIT OF BRITISH MEMBERS Off PABLIAM SHT«
5o Messrs Fred Lee, Jack Jones and W*N*Outhbert visited
Ahwaz on the 6 th June and went through a full programne of
inspections and interviews* They saw round the railway work
shops and visited the spinning factory An East India Company trading post. , then in a state of
strike* They had a two-hours interview with the Governor
General who spoke his views very frankly* They also talked
with the Manager of the Anglo- Iranian Oil Company and with
members of the Imperial Bank of Iran, returning to Abadan
by Aeroplane in the evening* They also visited some of the
oilfields before leaving in about five days*
RUSBIAN OFFICIALS*
6 0 Novikov in spite of the heat has been even more
energetic add travel-minded than usual this month.* 0 n the
6 th June he had a long interview with the Governor of
Khorramshahr, asking all sorts of questions including some
about British Officials who had previously served in the Army*
He was back at Ahwaz on the 7th, and visited Masjid i Suleiman
and Haft Kel, stopping only an hour or two at each place,
On the 8 th he was at Ram Hormuz; the next day at Khalafabad
and Aga Jari: on the 10th at Behbehan, and thence he went
to Hindijan and Deh Mulla and so to Bushire by road, returning
on’the 14th to Ahwaz* At some moment of this itinerary he '
was at Bandar Ma* shur* He complained that he was not treated
in a ,f cultured manner” there* On the 19th June he visited
Susangird and made a speech to some Arab Sheikhs* Be
performed these tours with his interpreter Bez-Btangv in his
Ford car,’ with a conspicuous red flag* Some details of what
happended during his journeys will be found below, under
’•Russian Policy ’ 1 and elsewhere*
7* Khaliiov’s classes in Russian for Persians have
stopped, owing to the heat: he is to resume them in the autumn*
PERSIAN OFFICIALS* ...
8 0 The Governor-General at the suggestion of the Prime
Minister went to Tehran by the evening train on the 22nd Juise*
The Tudeh party were jubilant as they have been heaping insults
on him for some time* As the
hooligans who had of course.be
train left the station some