Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎328r] (656/669)

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tuat time bee^ ubolisnerU
^- 4 y A i i-‘e orone out at tne 8 ^^. 111 * 11 ^ factory An East India Company trading post. oa tne
5tu November, and des_ite tue efiorte of a number of British
troops v;no vere inncdlately seat to he?.., vita demo*'itious
and water supplies, the cotton stores smouldered for some
days, and tons of cotton are sa^d to have been burnt.
Sabotage by tne fuden party was suspected by the owners.
( 1? ? ,li iQ Tenran press reports tnat an inspector named
Waziri-tabar recently arrived at Khorramabad to superintend
tne purcnase of local opium, the quantity and quality of
wnicn were reported to be much better than usual.
(d b ? Tne 3 nah is reported to nave donated tne sum of
lUals for tne repair of the hospital at Burujird.
tnis was done at tne instance of the presment of the
munioipal council of Burujird.
POLICE ^HaANiSATI On.
? Tne head of Police in Tehran, Brigadier Zarrabi,
is reported to have yielded -to tne pressure put upon him
for a loi% time past 1 rom the Governor General Misban ? 1 atemy,
and tne head of the Ahwaz Police, °o'i onel Alborz, and agreed
in principal to place the whole of the police of the province
of Khuzistan, including Kh o r ram shah r and Abadan, uiider tne
cuiei 01 Pol ice at Anwaz. If, as seems liicely, Alborz
manages to stay, t;ns would mean that Co* ox.iel Vaghar at Abadan
t* n ? aVe to b ® r *P’ laced by a nor* junior officer, a certain
Lt. wol. Nasrullaii Ban-gustar from Tehran is said to have
been proposed for the post.
PARTIES*
(20; All Omid appears to nave & one to Tehran on tne
2btn November, after having been imprisoned by Colonel Alborz
every tine ne was to have nude a pro-Tudeh speech.
(21; as a counterblast, a certain Abuul Halm an pani’ee
ox tne Post and Telegra^ns is said to iiave founded a ’’Sports
wlwb” oomposed of some 4o Tudeh sympatnisers, the principal
member being a certain Armenian chauffeur named An trail Ik. (?)*
inis new Club nowever coems to be of little importance.
( 22 ; }j[r, sazagar, ocal railway manager, has been com-
P ainine, of an influx of pro-Tuden railway employees transferred
o tins area Iroti the north. ile states, however, tnui ne has
majtiafced to cecu^e t^e transfer e? aewhere of pm locomotive
wivers and foremen who were Known to be actual or potential
saooteure, Twov otner employees, named Gouran and Malen,
were also transi'ierred from this province, tne latter being a
'l 1 tue Tudeh *»aero“ the late Dr. Araut. how
ever taey are bd’ing replaced by officials v:no nave recently
oeenreleased x>om internment at A raic, named Galjugny and
_ iaixury. Hein constant confidential communicafciOa with
nr. hUssem hafisy oa these and similar difficult questions.
BP BBEHIff S,
) A gocjd maxiy cases of thieving and robbery have recently
been/