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Coll 28/117 ‘Persia. Kerman, Yezd – (Bandar Abbas): Intelligence Summaries.’ [‎98r] (198/517)

The record is made up of 1 file (255 folios). It was created in 1 Sep 1942-26 Mar 1947. 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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Local \ffairs.
British Consulate,
Kerman.
4th November, 1943.
H.M. the Shah»s birthday was suitably celebrated both
in Kerman and Yezd by receptions and sports, in Kerman after
the sports the foundation stone was laid of a new gymnasium.
It is to be hoped that this will meet with a better fate
than that of the hospital which still has no super-strueture.
propaganda.
Allied victories have proved to be better propaganda than
all the paper and talh of the past. The clerk in charge of
the Consulate office in yezd, profiting by the tide of Allied
victories, collected no less than eleven thousand Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. in
five days for H.d. the Viceroy 1 s \>Var purposes Fund.
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I * 0 * s •,
His Majesty*s Consul, Kerman.
DISTRIBUTION USUAL.
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Fortnightly intelligence summaries (monthly from November 1945) submitted by HM Consul at Kerman, Persia [Iran], and covering events in Kerman and its surrounding province, Yezd [Yazd] and the Gulf port of Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]. The reports cover: the movements and activities of Persian local government officials; the movements of British officials, British subjects and foreigners; local government affairs, including elections, and from 1945, the activities of the Tudeh Party of Iran; movements and activities of the Persian military and gendarmerie; local security; roads and communications; economic affairs, with a focus on agricultural production, food supply, food shortages and food prices; and British propaganda. The file also contains some correspondence relating to a guarantee given by the British Government to Hussain Khan Buchakchi, confirming that no action will be taken against him provided he hands over enemy nationals and does not engage in ‘banditry and robbery’ (ff 52-56, ff 65-66).

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 (255 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 front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 257; 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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