Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎13r] (26/1237)

at tat town* By ten at night, to the accojapaniiaent of he/vy
rifle bail autOAatio fire, eh out half the town had been cleared of
gendar^B* the Persian ailitfery wore conoentrattd in their
barraelCB and seem to hure taken little part in the fighting*
The next day Sarhang 2 fe ngiaeh wol celled on to surrender. On hia
refuting the ettack renewed and he capitulated that night*
A few K u rdfe aider hurl Beg and Safthid ^eg hertti csuae in to
help the heaocrato, out they very eent a^ay by the sians, who
ut- toon Lt the town was won took strict iMeeurea to eee that there
fee re no ai&ordere and excee^ee* A democrat adminietratiojl was aet
up straight away, and by Deo^her SOtin the town was perfectly
juiot ond life .ot doing on pretty atiuch aa utuel under the new
ajina.-.exuont.
The gendurnc cs.nUiJ.tita are not kuoen here* Those made
prisoner ary allowed to go free alter Being disarmed* even O&ro
w>eg He rki, the bandit of Kukia, virtuously i& arc hod his bag of
sixty into hegaieh ana aanded them over to the hemoorat
authorities* he uah taken them at the po*t of Belanej which has
l ing cramped hia oateran style* In*? troops ter^ & iven the aaae
torru tit at Tabris, and moti of t. em elected to go home* Ssrhang
Bau^ineh and nurbakhfch, the oom..auJent of gendarmerie, left
Sa&aleh a fev d.,ys after the surrender and are now variously
r< orted to ho in Tehran any to be In custody in Tabrls*
AeC’infct ZtiLsst acta of ta* Gvndarmexie in Reraieh should he
act the murder© committed By ]>s,aacrate in 1 astern Azerbaijans a
genci ante officer at mi&neh; txirce or four g^adarmss at Jar and or
nesr it; tuc dov^rnor of Merageh and a Persian Colonelj a gendurms
officer and several men at Sarah 3 perhaps five gendarme officers
*«t hiahgin Chuhr; a colonel -it Ankara, and S police officers in
Tabriz; at well un murders of w r. «isti onary n ia^'Ulords which may
amber ne aihy ns thirty*
TUwUi Arlan, the kinieter of Justice in the new Qovsrnaeat,
went tc Eonaieh on December loth, and a., eigned the terms of
capitulation vith Durhnng ksnginsh* A cert ain Ahmed Ss'idi was
c iven the chief executive power in the tewa, sad appears now to
h^ve been made O'standar (Covernor-Oeneral) *
240. ^Ui..diwhAffaire. * Hcyy from the nurd in h districts in the
latt month has been scanty and. unreliable, but thwrt is no doubt
that the Kurds, inspired fey the success of tue sut.monous
movement here, are going ahead ./ith the constitution of their
©wn ^ovarnin bedy. I*a r^pr^. sent stives from Jshfcbtd, one called
Davudl, were prc.erxt a; tne People’s Johgrcse on U-vvember 19th.,
and are said to have promised the Jemccmts the eu ort of the
Kurds if nee cod. But as Indicated in the x^rectf&ing paragraph,
the kusui. ns h vc kept the two movement a aossrats* At the opening
SGCdljn of the Ksttonal Karllament pluses wero reserved for a
delegation of five Kurda who cuae ^on behalf of all the people
of urdietan, and especially on behalf of the Den.cornt karty of
Kurdiotan sod it 4 leader, .,u 2 l aonamsd >? , to offer their
congratulations end all cultural and economic co-operation* In
their aes&age to the National Government, this deleg tion refer
to the ‘^people of dutoaoiaous Iranian. Kurdistan'^ (^.und wukhtsrl
hurdistan Ir. ri;, mw state that in w few da/© (1 r >n beaeaber 25th*)
the National Aa&eiobly oi J urdieten Kill be opened at Mahabad*
s azi Mohaaed visited Tabris alter the faraution of the Hatloxi*
yl Government, so the guert of fishavari* Accord lag to the
American Vice-Oon^ul, felsh^vari ttid i.* tin interview u^ntioned in
p- r; 29:" above that be was diaemiruging *iasi J^h^ied fro4 forming
an entir ;ly .tnaependent Kuti.nal Kurdish Jove rassnt aw he did not
think the Kurds were yet ripv for self-* overament* ^haasd,
•.•ho hnu enj -yec- for four y 54 a re as ©maplets an independenoe as
Azerbaijan is ever likely to, night have had sene interesting
co;n >ei.t t r - make on this*
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