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Coll 28/120(2) ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular Diaries’ [35r] (69/224)
The record is made up of 1 file (110 folios). It was created in 7 Mar 1946-5 Feb 1948. 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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United Council €f Labourers of Luristan and
Khorrama'bado At Malayer the Tudeh party seems to 'be headed
by the ex-Governor of Burijird Moulavi-zadah, but in his case
his love for the Tudeh must be simply a convenient way for
him to run his opposition to the Majlis duputy Malik Madani©
In fact most of the Tudeh agents are similarly disgruntled
jobless people/ who could be weaned from the uartv intrignes
with wise handling®
SaCURITY®
31_o xin armed attack on an Oil Company car carrying Persian
soldiers from Agha Jari to Pehbehan on the 6 th Juhe is reported*
a sergeant was killed and one soldier wounded© An apmed
attack on two travellers near Burljird, resulting in ‘he
death of a certain Azarmi, a landowner of the district, is
also reported on the 17th Juhe 0
ELECT I Oil S 6
38® _ One of the members of tlie Provincial Council, ijQ s yyid
Hussein Imarilp has issued broadsheets advocating the claimB
of himself and the following persons to represent Khuzietan
constituencies in the next Majlis: Haji Muhammad Mustaufi,
Abr 1 shornkar, Beyyid All Tawakkuli (all of the Provincial
Counoil) and Majid Muqaqqar®
M&DICAho
33® Prom Arak comes a. complaint the recurrent fever is
claiming many victims and that there nape no medicines with
which to combat the disease®
METEOROLOGICAL®
34® Week ending' 1st June 1946 - Average temp® Max: 116
Min 126® Rainfall ~ Ffl® Wind North®
Week ending.eth June 1946 - Average Temp® Max 115
Min T‘4® Rainfall - Nil® Wind North®
Week ending 15th June 1946- Average Temp® Max 115
Min 75® 5*Rainfall -Nile Wind North®
Week ending 22nd June 1946- Average Terno® Max 112
Min 75© Rainfall - Nil© Wind North®
Week ending 29th June 1946* Average Temr.® Max 115®3
Min776©4* Rainfall - Kil® wrind North©
ECON OMICSo
T 6 ° ' " 1 .
the Hoods has put a great- strain on the resources of the &o~
cailed port of Bandar uhahpour^ with, its very•inadequate
facilities® The daily train from that port to Ahwaz Is
always m „. .. Df .goods® Freight rates on the lower K&rten
between Khorramshaiir and Ahwaa have soared, as road transport,
onlynabia to use uhe old road faro ugh Lorcpuiin, difficult*
Prices have shown no further tendency to fall, in fact they
tend to rise© The conaidrruble inoroaee in nonoy wanes granted
to oil company enpioysos i;;. no dotiot responsibl e for &ou& of the
increase in tne I oc.vt. ! .. price level© Ail attempt- to relieVe
the con^e^tj.on., at Bandar ohalipcur by unloading conr.ignR'jionts
of sugar ^ x or th«- south au Bandar A boas and Bushire Is being
iu a o.e® but grea t Xtej-wys are the .result owing to the eleme^taT*y
discharging facilities at those two porta.®
/ COIvu JJNI CAT TONS •
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Monthly consular diaries submitted by HM Consul-General at Ahwaz [Ahvāz] in Persia [Iran]. The diaries cover the period January 1946 to December 1947, and describe affairs in Ahwaz under various subheadings. Subjects covered include: British officials and visitors; the evacuation of British troops from the region as part of an Anglo-Soviet agreement following the end of the Second World War; Persian officials and visitors; movements of foreigners; Soviet interests; communications, including railways and postal services; agricultural production, including food supply, food prices, and price controls; tribes, including the Bakhtiari; local politics, including the activities of local political parties, in particular the Tudeh Party of Iran; local elections; local press; internal security, and Persian military activities in the region; regional affairs, including the region’s Arab population and affairs in Luristan [Lorestān]; health, including diseases and medicine; education; meteorological observations, including rainfall statistics; the affairs of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), including a description of events at Abadan on 14 July 1946, in which a riot at the AIOC refinery resulted in the deaths of at least twenty-four people (ff 39-42). Also included in the file is a report entitled an ‘Appreciation of local conditions from November 1945 to May 1946’ (ff 44-48).
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (110 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 111; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, 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.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/3534
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- Coll 28/120(2) ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular Diaries’
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- front, front-i, 2r:111v, 111v, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence