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Coll 28/112B Persia. Tabriz. Monthly dispatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan, & misc: reports.’ [‎173r] (346/451)

The record is made up of 1 file (223 folios). It was created in 18 Mar 1946-16 Mar 1948. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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e.i the beginning of the nonth thirteen prisonerej Irariien
regular troops, v/ere broucfht into Tabriz. They were said to have been
captured on the *Mi ,nduab Front* # They are probably prisoners taken
by the Kurds at ^ardasht and handed over to the National Govemr) ent
r,s being Azerbaijanis. They are said to have been released.
TO. ^an^ineh .( Jee last Diary, naragraph 55) On ^ay 2?th.
vam s«-Sal tan eh telegraphed to Jaefar Pishavari requesting the
release of^dolonel ^angineh and Colonel Nur Bakhsh, 0o. r , man ^ nn ^ 0 f
troops and Commandant of Gendarr^erie respectively et Rezoieh up to
Bau in th # lost year, who war# Ti Ly tria4l by the Aaart)ai; !
Field Tribunal and sentenced to ten veers imprisonment each. Pish^v^”!
at once complied with the request and both officers are believed to have
left for Tehran by road on 1-ay °9th.
71. Ao po intnonts. General lillanian, former Chief of Police, is now
0.C. troops at Mara gha,
The new Ofolef of Police is I-aior Dadar, fo^' °rly Head of th»
Security i-ol ice (^a* is Ta’minat). He is a a id to be a Jir and tl
murderer of the Tabriz police officer Vakiii who was shot in the
street shortly before the Democrats seised power last Decambar.
Hilal Nasir, formerly p^of inent in the old Freedom Front,
but of whoru little has been he ; rd lately, has been appointed
Farm and a r (Governor) of Hesaieh*
72. Trade and Industry. business la still very slack, about the only
cob taodlty in which there is any dealing being carpets, which are being
bought for the Tehran and /^ericon markets. The Russians are selling
sugar, but the local market is well stocked and prices are down to
Rls.40-42 per kilogramme for loaf and dl 3 .28-35 for soft sugar
(wholesale).
‘The National Government have made efforts to fix the prices of
locally produced food-stuffs, part of their campaign to reduce the
cost of living. The chief result so far is that products like butter
have become unco -only scarce.
The Goveniment have opened two big wholesale shops for the s' le
of sugar, tea and cotton piece goods.
On May loth, the Government published a law prohibiting the
importation into Azerbaijan of all clashes of ’industrial products*
which are produced in Azerbaijan. The penalty for a first o^erc«
is a fine amounting to half the value of the goods imnort^d and for
a sec on i o ^ ence, the confiscation of the floods. The rh^ese ’indus
trial products* is not defined.. The aama lasr requi-^ aXI fa yam
employees to use only textiles produced in Azerbaijan. The renalty
"or a first o °^ence 5 s a fine of one ^Mfth of the >nder’s v*
end for a second off©nce| diarissal. Goods prohibited under the first
nart of this law ray be imported in exceptional cases if the inietry
of economics and Co merce certifies their importation to be esrentiai.
The National Government faced v/lth the problems both of "educinr
the cost of living and running the factories they h- ve taken over, arc
beginning by docking the factory An East India Company trading post. workers* allowances, whereas under
the old regime every factory An East India Company trading post. worker was provided with free bread and
charcoal as well as with two suits of clothes and a pair of shoes in
the year, now ha is to receive his bare pay, with, perhaps ito some
cases, one suit of working clothes. The factory An East India Company trading post. workers are not
liking it, ouu, as it is thexir erstwhile cham v ions, like ^ohatned 3 iriy 3
who are now in power, there is little they can do about it. strikes,
of course, are out of the question under a A>8uocrat regime.
xjubl ic ,„orks, Repair of Tabriz streets has gone ahead all thr(
the month, ^ne street has been asphalted and extensive relaying of
cobbles is in progress in many others.
The National Government are undertaking the rehabilitation of
the pleasure resort of Ghah Goli, about 5 miles from Tabriz which
has been neglected and in ruins since the Occupation in 1941. The
Osd to it has been mended, trees planted and the repair of the
^staurant is well advanced.
Sat tar Khan, the hero of the 19QG revolution, ha? finally gap-
planted fez a :liab as the tutelary genius of thie city. Hie bu*t,
'inrr the from th. X.t. Shah', atatua h a rt baan

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Monthly reports submitted by the British Consul General at Tabriz, concerning events in Tabriz and Azerbaijan. The reports, which span the period January 1946 to January 1948, cover: the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Azerbaijan following the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Iran during the Second World War; the short-lived existence of the Azerbaijan People’s Government, declared in November 1945; the activities of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan and its leader Ja’far Pishevari; the Iranian Government’s reassertion of control in Azerbaijan in 1947. The reports include sections describing: the general situation (with a detailed chronology of events given for reports covering January 1947 to May 1947); the activities of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan; military operations; internal security; trade and industry; finance; communications; agriculture; Kurdish affairs; Armenian affairs; British, Soviet and American [USA] interests, including propaganda. The file includes an English translation of an agreement between representatives of the Government of Iran and the Azerbaijan People’s Government, the original of which was published in the newspaper Azerbaijan on 16 June 1946 (ff 165-167).

The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 file (223 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 225; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

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