Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎268r] (536/669)

LAW AKB URDI3R .
Aprn tr i al 0f Kazeruni ^as/beeL,
April, thu cabe hab been pending for 15 months.
v The Tu ? eh partir has remained quiet recently.
All Omid has been released on bail. ^
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vitfl' ,.•>,» An unfortunate misunderstanding arose near
Wait, when an Indian detachment, hearing shots in the nitht
"hevivere^ei 100 ^ ^® ndal ’ mer ' ie officer and two Arab guards?’
*ne/ were released the next morning with apologies*
KCQIjQMlQ.
liauid' 3 tP ^ ecis 1 10n the Persian Government to
^ h i ' arm has ^ een carr> ied out in the usual in-
-/? ^^siun fashion. The Persian member of the Board a
Ministry of Finance^official - med Behnia, who has consis
tently opposed Coi.ioel and »nown himself generally unfriendly
appeared in Ahwaz armed with a letter from the Ministry o? :
rcmrni 1 ^ 6 - bel ^ R T ed ^ 17(3 unsi ^ ed ) authorising him to set up a
Commission 0I liquidation. Accordingly taking advantage of
0 * 1 . ioel s absence m .ehran he proceeded br means of^a
proces verbal to remove all the responsibility for and
direction of the farm out of ! ne hands of Col.hoe 1 , (who had
received no notification of the decision to wind up + he fa^m)
ana 9r ace them in the hands cf a body of Persians who are
described as looking like a bunch of crooks. efforts are now
being made in Tehran to straigaten matters out, andlo give
Cclonel Koel time t. nut things in .rder to hand over to I
property constituted liquidation commission.
Pf' ,. Colonel I'oel hs.o in the meantime succeeded in
persuading „ne Government to consider his scheme of lettinr
-he namidiah and Ahu Dasht irrigated lands together with the
development t0 % private company for the purpose of
wltlf 9 al a’ra??M In 1o t0 irrigate T® daim ^nd by taking
Karkhah f LTr + k TT - per ^ » canal from the
1 ? t0 5 he sha ur - I’his may however seriously
affec. the supply of water in the Dasht-i-Kishar which it
ik U k 1Cle + jtl T w , at ? red by the Kurkhah as it is. ’professor
V/Vnsor is to look into this,
, Business is still extremely quiet, and nrice^
quantify to brin^t* bllk fr ° m byria hab GOrae in sufficient
which t 1 g th p T Ce down t0 around a ^fth of that
have a"so ■iffeet k°+h and ' , ppgar and P le ce goods from Russia
kf af J eoted the market; and the former has managed to
the iark!t Ind roT 1 ,k Ug !k whl ° h was arau ^ lsd fnom Kuwait out of
k told and P leoe goods are again, it is believed '
the flow°of Tr^ni^i ’ 83 f ° r - smug S lijl g to Iraq; and although
ielent er Ind earl v r" 31, notea haa reached the proportions oi
jecer.her and early January, there is a definite increase.