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Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [67r] (134/1237)
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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raterrevi to »bov© (para 185) after stuiyin^ and approving the new
party 1 © aaxxi-feato (eee lait Diary)# decided to ^nd its coaneati^n with
tUa Antral Do^ittee ol lix* rudeh iarty and join the Democratic Party
en bloc. A translation of thia urtlola# aelf*styled ‘ f niatoric'S ia
given as an append!* to this diary*
It seems# uOi.# tu&t the tranafomatlon is expiate* hut the
manoeuvre has been so open that It in hard to see what the Tudeh or
the Euaaiana e*pect to gain by it* Uo-one in Azerbaijan who vrould have
had the courage to vote &g duet a Tudeh candidate In the Majll* elect
ions will vote for e f, D^..iiOcrotio ,, one* But there is always the hope
that some part of th* new party^ peaceful protestations may he since re
Azerbaijan can do with $uiW a lot more law and order than it has
enjoyed for noma yeara past.
One of the organizere of the new party# however, has privately
given it © lile oi four months*
187. .otxtc*' valja. *otiw»<X 81rlya, of the Union (Snural
kuttahidei lyaiatl Azerbaijan' has Been Uiianimcaisly elected to
represent the imi >n at the forthej^ing Trades U.ii n Conf erence in
Parle* it is reported that tne Tehriz police have refused to renew
his pase-port# and have referred to Tehran for instructions*
un September 15th. the executive doulttee of the Union (A erbaij-
n haukorlar ittifaqinin Ijre’iya Komitael) ported wall-notieue
stating that mncutorth any correspondence ad reused to the Of>soittee
in the Persian language will not receive attention* All com^unlcat-
lane must be in Turk!* The standardizutlon and devel paent of Turkl
as a written language hsa formed the subject of an rtlole in Ac.e.rhail*
an . which itaeli# however# does not seem able to cover more than one
page with last language*
186. .h* ^l.,vaa 1^1,.-.^. Isw» two laepactora ;>f th Mlalatiy qf
Justice who were investigating this affair vla^t Diary# para 1?3)
have left Xahrle for an unknown deetlnatlin* It has Been ruaeured
several tiide© thfe$ Dawud Khan and hie two sons h&ve Been relJaaed, But
the latest enquiry from an official source indicates that they /*re sti
ll in prison, ifaw detention# illegal# it la claimed, of these
relatives ef the murdered hlgvan 1. u.Uora# is thought to Be one of the
reassne for the recall of the kuhlic Proaeoutor (para 182 above).
1B9. i&i£MMiM 9 (^n&t Diary# para i?5). the Joahandant of the TaBrie
Division comima tha^ tne Persian garrison of haragha was disarmed
by the dovlet Town Ooanandent alter the Persian Oo—and mt had decl?\refi
m&rti&X lew. gersleon is still disarmed# But is not confined ti
Barracks* Barfcip Burakhehani says that he protested against the
Bov let Town CaMandant's action to tne Kuesian a.d.d* at XaBriz,
hl&utenant Oeneral GlinsKy. he rep rts Qlluaity replying thit so
long as kussion troops are in Azerbaijan th^y will not permit the
Persians to establish martial law anywasre*
Meanwhile# it se^M# Biirgurd Bafvat# tlw Persian Gomm^nding
Dfficer in Msraghs is in charge ol the local government# Bat not as a
military governor* k&Cl , l KaBlri and Xaghis&dah, the leaders of the
anti-goverrim^nt revolt# have declared their allegiance to the Democra
tic Party# and no doubt consider themselves to be ranging the place.
But whoever else may think he is governing Aaragha# it is perfectly
clssr that the reel master of the situation is the Soviet Town
Commandant* Lana lord a of Maraghm art said to have offered Kabiri
30#000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
to call off his agitation when it was In the early
stages* he stuck out for a contribution equal to hie debts (60#000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
) and a Bit extra to c: rry on with. It seems the landlords w rs
not able to raise this.
Phv misconduct of the Laragha telegraph master had Been one of
the chief complaints of the Tudeh-Beaocrstis leaders there. They
recently received a reply from Tabriz to their demand for his removal.
Tabriz informed T&ghlzsdeh that the Telegraph Master could not be
removed without documentary proof of hi© misconduct* Taghleedeh has
replied that for the peat fortnight ttya Telegraph Master hue be»?n a
reformed character# and they uon^t mind if he stays now*
/ 190 .
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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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