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visited the Persian ^rmy barracks at KHORIUMiiBAD<
and TAIMURI went with them.
Colonels HASHSMi
J* nrlQ June 10th Major LAVI10VITGH with two companions came to
^ Jeep mu a attem P tea t0 J^aw petrol from the Kermanshah
tinneri ^n C th » ihey Were ln civilial1 clothes. They were ques-
5 the Ma J° r Pf oa ucea a British Army travel permit two aays
out of fute, on the itinerary of which Kermanshah was not included,
ihey said they were looking xor a stolen Jeep.
visiter Q’ q p V T K 2hr,™ e So y iet Vice-Consul at Kermanshah and his wife
visited. QASR-I-SHIRIN early in oune.
MlSCELLAijEOIIB
i JP J h ! end of du) ? e ’ there Wa6 a report current that 3 cases
ih a + occurred m Kermanshah. The Public Health Department
? f c !} oler ’ a had occurred and published a notice
to this effect m the local press, threatening persons spreading
false reports to the contrary with all the penalties of the lawf
= „ou°K e GaSe smallpox was reported among I.O.R.s in the KaEsanah
ni ‘ ashah a rea * was thought that he might have communicated the
disease to local labour with which he had been in contact, but no
lurther cases were reported,
+ The imminent Prospect of unemployment at Kermanshah is causing
in r l 10re re f£ )onsil::)le circles. In aduition to the 260 discharged
CUiJ Co. employees (para 11 above) and the 200 to be discharged from 8
the Persian Economic Administration, some 2,000 labourers will
dismissed from the. British Army Camps at BISITUN, Some of
hese last will return to the villages to work at least while the
aryest is being got in but for the rest no prospects of employment
exist, and the Tuueh Party is waiting with open arms to take them
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41. - On the nights of June 16th and 23rd, 14,000 feet in all of
copper telephone wire was stolen from the Kermanshah Petroleum Cols
lines near the town. The Gendarmerie said it was inside the town
limits anu therefore the Police ou B ht to take up the matter, the
u 11 ? 6 was outside the town and therefore the Gendarmerie
Siould look alter it. The Acting Governor—General's influence was
ihsuffucient to bring either of the parties to reason, and the O.C,
iroops said that somebody obviously had to do it and if nobody else
would, then the Persian Army would take over. Eventually the police
and Gendarmerie agreed to co-operate b u t so far they have not
succeeded either in capturing the thieves or recovering the stolen
wir»e.
(Sd) A.W. Davis.
SJ.SyftIBUTIQN H.M. Consul
Foreeign Officre (4); H.M. Ambassador, Tehran (2); CICI Baghdad;
Gove-rnment of India; G.H.Q, New Delhi; H.M. Consular Officers at:
Tabriiz, Ahwaz, Shiraz and Hamadan; A.L.O. Kermanshah; A.L.O, Senna;
File,
British Consulate,
KERMANSHAH,
July, 18th, 1945