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road to Isfahan and from there hy road to Qurn and rail to
Tehran will he a somewhat round-about «>ne.
!V. OF. CURITY ,
(15) , On the night of the 10th - 11th January the
Imperial Bank of Iran was broken into and note^ to the
/lvalue of 860,000 rials stolen. iVir.Aitken, a British em
ployee of the A*I o 0,C. and three Persians are in Police
custody. Preliminary investigations are in progress 0 whe
money, except for a small sum, has been received' through
statements made by the accused.
(16) . On the night »f 6 th January the main power cable
leading from the Railway "electric power-house was cute This
would appear to have been a planned act «f sabotage as special
precautionary measures w®uld have t® be taken by the sab-
ateur to protect himself.
(l r7 ) 0 m uharram . A pr®cessi*n was broken up during which the
°inehs; nan attacked the Police. One Policeman was slightly
injured by a st#ne. All the Rozakhaneh were packed and in
j many the liullahs preached Allied propaganda throwing the
! blame i>r the dearness of the cost of living s>n the Germans,
V. IFAhTH ,
(1P) W In Ahwaz health is comparatively g®od but 3
ca~es ®f typhus have been reported.
(19)* In certain villages in the Bandar Qir and Mulla-
sani areas smdli-pox is reported tc be worse than usual.
( 20 . ) Bff«rts are being made to get the back streets
of the town cleaned up. The main roads are passably clean.
(21). The Chief of Municipality, Aghai Mirshab ®f
Khorramnhahr, has been transferred to Ahwaz. He is not
thought to be energetic in any direction beneficial to the
public service.
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TRIBAL
(22) . Kuh galu, Abdullah Zarghampur, the Boir Ahmad chief,
has given evidence of his desire to co-operate with the
Persian Gsvernment by inviting British and Persian Offi
cials to meet him at Chameh Chit,.a two hours ride up
the Mr;run G«rge from ^ang-i-Takab. He stated to H.M. Consul-
General, and dsubtlest als® to the AoL.O. and ^arang
Humayuni who were at the meeting, that he had been de
siring t«r co-eperate with the Persian ‘Government for some
time past but his overtures had been ignored. He stated
that he had no land claims against the Government but
wished to be made officially responsible fer Boir Ahmad
territory. He would like, he said, to be made Kalentar fsr
the XuhgalUo He was teld that he must first give some
demonstratien #f his earnestness, ^he day after our de
parture he proceeded ®ne day’s march into the mountains
where he met various Kadkh@das. He later sent a message t®
nay that on the 8 th Bahman (January SSth) he would deliver
to the Government some machine guns and rifles taken at
°emirun. With what small quantity he will be able to buy
•ff the Government Officials remains to be seen,
(23) . Abdullah Zarghampur himself c®nfirmed that Ali
and Vali have disarmed Muhammad Hussain Taheri s®n ®f
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