Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎214r] (428/669)

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Persia, three or four hundred Lur bandits and thioyao, 'who
had been living in exile in Khorasan. re turned to Lurie?tan
and were settled by Brigadier Tajbalchsh. ir his villages rtiund
Darbando He received a grant •f Riils 3i0,C00 the Per
sian Government to start them in agricultural ±tfe 0 Their
condition last year was sa bad that they had to be given
grain, and the same thing is happening thin year., The Bars
say that Tajbakhsh ' has not given them any plough
oattle, while Tajbakhsh says they have eaten the anirmls he
gave themo Meanwhile, they indulge in robbery ar* are a great
nuisance t® the peace of the countryside* Of* the Rials
500,000 granted, "Rials 140,000 are said, to be still unspent,
^nd it is hoped that s#me scheme will be devised for settling
these people, who are likely to become quite a serious
menace to internal security •nee our troops leave the hreao
(17) . An American military policeman 7/as stripped'and
teaten into unconsciousness by villagers near BurujircU He
visited the village in order to make enquiries- about an Aid-
t«-Russia truck loaded with sugar which had left a convoy and
turned down a side road* For some unexplained reason he let
off his revolver and wounded a woman in the leg, whereupon he
net upon by the villagers*
^18) • The laxity of tho local judicial authorities in
dealing with cases of theft of Allied military property «eems
tc be almost as bad as in Ahwaz* A Persian accused cf being
in possession of a- rifle, which he bought for Rials 1, ; 400
from an Indian deserter, was found at liberty in his village
e, week after he had been handed over to the Persian authorities.
This and other cases have been taken up with the head of the
Justice Department and the Governor and it is hoped that the
warnings administered will result in an improvement* Of the
troops promised by the G.0•C•Lurist an Pi vision (see para 19
cf Diary No* 11), only 20 under a captain hove arrived and
nhey seem entirely occupied with the collection of conscripts
and cf Government rifles issued to landowners*
luristan*
(19) * Warnings were sent at the beginning of the. month
liy the G* 0.0.Luristan Division to the Haseanv&nd (see para 20
of Diary No* 11) that unless the principal robbers belonging
tc this tribe were handed over, troops would be sent to Ali
ght ar* Only two robbers have been handed over and, so far as
ip known, no troops have been sent tc the area* This trice is
famous for robbery, and the principal Khans, who own extremely
fertile and well watered lands, each employ gangs of robbers
vho raid villages in the uahavend, Bum jird , and Malayer dis
tricts* I happened to visit the area and took the opportunity
•f impressing on the ’Chans the necessity for complying with the
orders «f the Persian Government and mending their wayo if
they wished to avoid trouble,
[ 20) , On the night of the 24th August shots were fired at
three stationary American military vehicles 15 miles north of
Andimeshk. One American soldier was hit in the foot and two
tarbines and 20 rounds of ammunition were stolen* Reports were
also received that thieves were jumping on lorries ascending
the Tang—i-Fanni (km, 116) south of Mal&vi and throwing off
portions of the loads* ...
Khuzistan*
\21) • A certain number of robberies have taken place* and a
Persian civilian lorry was attacked- by an armed band near
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