Coll 28/112B Persia. Tabriz. Monthly dispatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan, & misc: reports.’ [‎132r] (264/451)

A certain Jabbarzari, said to have been formerly Governor of
Zenjan, has been appointed Governor (Farmandar) of Knoi.
The Governor of aku is Jbharaed Kabiri, the brother of tebi* i
Kaoiri, ex-minister of Communications in the National Government.
Towards the end of the month there were reports that the
Governor-General had been summoned to Tehran to report on the
carrying out of the Agreement, but he seemed in no hurry to go.
99. The /♦zerbo Lian srtav. There nas been no news of military
operations during the month.
A small commission of Iranian officers, headed by "arbeng
Alavi, came to Tabriz with Dr. Javid on July 4th., nreeumably to
Implement the clause of the Agreement which provided for a mixed
Commission to settle the question of the Peoria*s Army. ?To head
way was made in the matter and ^arhanr Alavi returned to Tehran
about the middle of the month. Another Iranian officer, ^arhang
^foams Palik Ara, who was supposed to deal with the conversion of
the ^ida* is into the new Genda'mnerie or ?Tirphhan . made equally
little progress. He is reported to have sai r1 tSat the ^ida*is
could not he formed ep masse into a rendarmorie as he could only
take those under thirty. This, naturally, would not be accertahle
to the ^ida* is. Tn any case, the Democrats are not likely to make
a serious effort to modify the existing organization of forces to
suit Tehran. The t? ida , is v/ere the spear-head of the revolution
and they still remain a ueeflil argument.
llie Tabriz ilitary College spears to have ceavsed to function,
ishavari is reported as saying that those Army Officers who parsed
out from the College and received Azerbaijan commissions earlier
in the year will have to attend the Military College at Tehran
and take their examinations again* only if they pass in Tehran
will they be confirmed in their ranks. This would be in the spirit
of the Agreement which defines the -eople*s Army as part of the
Iranian Army.
100. The provincial Council, fherb was no plenary session of the
provincial Council during the month.
101 • De mocrat ^ art;/ n IT airs. A Congress of the Azerbaijan Youth
l ovement v/as held on July 6th. The leader of the Democrat r arty,
Jaafar Pishavari, could not attend through illness, but sent a
written message. The Vice-Chairman of the Party, Sadiq Padegan,
also gave the Congress his blessing by letter. The Youth 'ovement,
which seems to include children from toddlers upwards, has provided
a sort of blue drill uniform for it*' members, but there do not
seem to be enough suits to go round as yet. Its chief public
activity is marching along the streets end singing the patrioti^
ditty, ’’Azerbaijan '.
The Democrat Party’s election campaign gathered momentum
during the month. There are two no^nts o^* interest in their
propaganda* one, that no complaint is made about the delay in bold
ing the ? ajlis elections, and second, a monotonous insistence that
if the elections ^o against the ’liberal parties* the latter, led
by the Azerbaijan Democrat Party, will use force to attain their
ends.
102. Press and ^roragando. i^aridun Ibrahimi, sometime Public
Prosecutor in the National Government, was appointed special
correspondent of the newspaper Azerbaijan to cover the Paris Peace
conference and left for France aoout ine middle of the month.
un July 22nd. a mass meeting of workers was called at short
notice to protest against the ‘murder of Iranian workers by the
i-nglo-Iranian oil Company 1 at ^badan. Democrat press and radio
claimed that 3u,0CQ people attended the meeting, but in reality the
number was something under one thousand, iohamed Diriya, Chairman
of the workers’ union and Director of education, gave a libellously
garbled version of the incidents at ^badan on July 14th. and 15th.
and called on the workers of Azerbaijan to avenge theiu martyred
brothers. The Acting British Consul-general later drew the
attention of the vjovemor-General to the in; ccuraelee of Biriya* s
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