Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [35r] (70/1237)
The record is made up of 1 file (615 folios). It was created in 16 Dec 1941-6 Mar 1946. 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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on the cvtniug of th* I 6 ta. X rsoeivec rtltaole intormation
that the t*Ic&rupa iabilii to ^iauth, Mianduab* Marageh
/^i>na ItliTan haa beta out that afternoon, or if they were not cut,
th* oiilcoa in >-iineh| and Miandaab war«i ocoupied by anaod
mambur^ oi the IHmoa&Hc rti.rty* It waa reported to me at tn-j same
tiffin ti*at fit.'- tin* hau uroJceti out Uut*een ^euocratic Purty forces
and gerAdar&e& in the rogion oi hianeh (but not in the town itself),
olid that geadfirtae* in so^t ▼illagot south of Xabriz had been
claimed. Attacks an the gendamee in Aaarahehr, nen,-b # Mi$nauab
and Marageh were saiu to be plbimed for that night• i sent my
kuiuhi to the telegraph on ice to find out whether the line vaa in
fact npii.u to X'ehrnn* he learned that comaiunioati ju nad J&tn
rt-^eatatoliehed that night, and that the *er&iau Go.juaudent and ttw
Gomii.Uind.iUit oi urunuaxiaerie had cojamuuicated with their superiors in
Tehran* -a thei'^lore sent my teiegram a4o* 95 to you to the telegraph
Oi ;1 ou •
6 * Uenerai Gur a ^Jn ah an i, the ^eraian G ouswan^^t, esae to sue m© the
next aoraing# he confirmed that fighting waa going on nawr -iianeh,
that lino anon sent from Tabriz to re**or« eeaaunication had been
lired on, and ^hit there was no aoimiunioatlon with Uarageh and
-Aiunauab. ho iaiormed me zh&t on Woveatoer 15tn. all tne gendarmes
in the village of Ajabshahr, 40 miles South-feist of Tabriz, had been
dla&med and imprisoned, and that attacks had bean mode on gend^mea
in various other villagea between Aarageh and Mianduab* Patrols
ox iiemocrate were controlling the road to Mian&ueb and stooping and
searching, all vchiclee* There had been some casualties* Ifco
husiiiane, he said, had established a pont on tlv road between Mian-
duab and bukan (th© direct road from Todri l to Ksmanshahand were
permitting no-one to pass, whether civilian or military. For a week
nou, General d I 14# •• viet General Goin \ e .. in
Azerbaijan had rt fused al l his r«uuusta for permiaei >n to move
troops or gendarmes from Xabris to a re at where there were
diuturuances. he had made a written request that morning for
per .1 as ion to £;wnd 100 troops to aianbuub, but hud a»o far had no
reply •
7 * wuiie tiis QenersX was in ; Qy ofiice hChief of’ -Itafi &.-rived
anu informed him in my presence that news had just been received
that on the night of the I 6 tu. 500 armed democrats attacked the
gendarmerie and ti iope in the village of Sar&b (a email Persian
garrisem) on the road to Ardebll* After a long resistance the
troops and gendarmerie were overpowered and taken prisoner and
conveyed to un unknown beetination. Th© 's^me night about , ) )0
De.v.ocrate attacked gcarme ports round the town of -Aianeh, anu sent
a party into the telegraph office in the town to prevent ouy xurther
communication with Tehraut. Three laitdovntrs v»*r~ reported to have
been killed in the fighting in the villages.
8 * X socortMined the same anming from the X&oriz telegraph office
that there was no eoamuaioatioa witn Tehran, and tnat my telegram
Ho* 93 had not been sent.
9 . 1 saw th© iioviet Uoosttl-General the same afternoon. Mr.
Arsenikh took up his appointment only a few days ago and affected
to be Xu Ignormce of the situation here and the aims oi the
M su—Cfalled tt Democratic Farty. Ue told m*s tnot a de)utftti')n of
Tabriz Jierchsnta heu been to see him uni had expressed tnelr acute
anxiety abcus the 4 iuation. lie asid ho thought the reports from
the province were highly ©xag^eratedt said that th^ trouble was
.... . .._ n fhti hdiHlMII 4 n |S fch&i jeni riucrie, . *•it KM
the business of the local authorities to restore order. I said that
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Reports and correspondence concerning the internal situation in Azerbaijan and Tabriz during the region’s occupation by Soviet military forces, part of the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia [Iran] in the Second World War. The file chiefly comprises reports, submitted on a monthly (and later fortnightly) basis by the British Consul-General at Tabriz, reporting on events in Azerbaijan and Tabriz. Reports up to July 1942 are printed, while subsequent reports are typewritten. The typewritten reports are organised under subheadings that vary from one report to the next, but generally cover: weather; agriculture, locust movements, food supply and reports of hoarding; consular tours; the activities of consular colleagues and counterparts; local government, local politics, and elections; Kurdish affairs, including events at Rezaieh [Orūmīyeh]; Armenian affairs; public order; the activities of the Persian, Russian and United States military; trade, commerce and labour; transport and communications, including convoys, and the activities of the United Kingdom Commercial Corporation (UKCC); propaganda. From late 1944 onwards the reports increasingly focus on rising political and social unrest in Azerbaijan, which would eventually culminate in the Iran-Azerbaijan crisis of 1946. These later reports focus on the emergence and activities of new political parties (including the Tudeh Party and the Democratic Party), new political newspapers, and Soviet activities in Azerbaijan.
The file also includes: correspondence sent by the British Ambassador in Tehran, Reader William Bullard, forwarding the Tabriz Consul’s reports with comments to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; note sheets covering numerous reports, giving a précis of the report’s contents; the translation of a report by the Persian Minister for War, secretly obtained by British sources, describing military and political conditions at Rezaieh, dated 17 May 1942 (ff 560-564); a report of a visit to Rezaieh in February 1945, compiled by the British Consul-General at Tabriz (ff 147-154).
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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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 617; 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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- Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’
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- front, front-i, 1ar, 2r:69v, 71r:136v, 138r:150v, 150ar:150av, 151r:194v, 196r:197v, 199r:300v, 302r:420v, 424r:560v, 565r:575v, 577r:581r, 583r:616v, back-i, back
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