Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎15r] (30/1237)

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Joa« Soviet of rid ale hiiv* in ooavoyMatioil frankly defended
the democrat rising, ae for inotanc© the Soviet Vioe-Coa-ul in
a. -iiah, v»ho told thu iiritish Cooaul that all the people wontad
Wfta w to live like humm beluga * whioh they had never been able to
do under the regime of 1'ehran. In the taiae conversation,
deo- ri'ji&ii the attack on the- geudarne ana the action in the
«crt never a© bad as tiiey might have been.
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wh he aald: ’‘Things
beesut e, of oour&e, oui troops were
The convoy of about 75 lorrien
forces for the rtduction of ke;i;.ie-n
person si supervision of the Soviet foun Major who, to obtain
Petrol lets st night, hinself forced the look of the Aa^lo-
Irenien Oil Company*c depot. The Convoy led by a Hubs! an
officer who paid for the petrol taken. It is true, but gove ten
toman 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. /., abort 1 ffc© Euaslan Army in fact, helped the democrats
in every ray it could short of actually opening fire on the
: erfilan troops eno gendnnr-srla. the official Russian
vX/lanation of nil this io that Russian troo' ■ had to aceoni- any
t ho i I u a f i s to na nl „g i n a t e x ce s r o c, 1. c • pi on 3 e r i n rad
prouli cuous si slighter, cc veil as to cee that no f i ©nee was
cor:;- it ted sgainat Tuan lan 1.1 res or property*
There is no reliable news of Russian troop moveaents in
this province 1 some garrisons ^erv said to heve been withdrawn
from the Turkish frontier to Ror.aish a little before thu troubles,
but this prob- bly 3 n"»r.-nl .a -vesr^nt to ..Inter r, x-.rters* It
has been noviced also that the chisrim Array re-fuelling points
’ t 5':njan and i ianwh haw been nbandon.rd.
_vul jy 1 •: ♦ ih. -ctivltU’s oi the kuasian©
during the vmth ..oarce ly co^e under th« feu*sd lag of Culture, but
m Dec^ Dth* the ;iety far Cal nra! '.rt.ti ■ .-.iiied
an, hcle a meeting to introduce to the T cor la public the
.rtit-tas 0.1 the Soviet Covorna^nt Qlreuc fr 'n\ i ct-ccw who have been
touring Iron and have now arrive.; here, f-one iteaiii traia their
r pcrt6*re were given end Afterwards a buffet supper was served,
ttended by iv i t 0 : the a>>-ibai- of the National 'aovpmment, the
Consul rut* Corpb ad nu. it roue notables of the town.
P4li# limjcatloa * Mohaattd Birtya, the new A!nligter of Education,
tfi one of. the inenrt activ. members oi the Cnvermu^nt. From
December lith. to the uni of the month h. was busy visiting ell
the* m t u-e anf gohools in the town, skiing on the doverment *s
policy find haranguing teachers sau pupil® alike on the be utlss
of th*s Turk! language. Commiaaiona for the translation of all
text b nks in wee up to the Fourth Class rom Rergiau Into
Turk! have been pet up and have st arted work, -teanv.hlle the system
is to use the rVcsian b .:s and conduct all diecuet ion and
explanation in Turk!.
The use of roi©n in nil official bus ner. it .prohibited*
In G^v©muent cffic@fc files be sun in Persian may be completed
in that lanyuape, but anything new nunt be in iurkl.
T4o* • e . u^ t * Al’ter the eetsb il;/hBmAt of ths -lati ^nal Govermtcnt,
the sole remaining wr&i^n newspaper in Tebrig. Kfaavnr-i-Jlov.
fs .itched to Turk!, neither it nor Aaerb^l lag is written
exclusively in Tur :i J articles in Purs inn find r: pi see, but a
minor one.
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