Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎109r] (218/1237)

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jxa..i »SifX?Uig out of tfcs orope» iiut oa ale arJ v lfaV^ boatWa up ogr
IULa oaa frai OAigr. > - Ho amam
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oaX^ w*m£y to 4 0iu tbo fudell furty tiime.
Th* fhtpnrtMmi at «/uotlco at X1 a ssda to h»v* toktarmd tne
ammltio* of tb# I'u^uh Party that it bae rul^d tur ; t it is Illegal for
&{V l&ualora to froa bis aaarc-croppiag taaants a greater
proportion of tn«? crop ttuiu Uioy took before tae ^ocupatloa la 3.941 •
.,v fuui«b xart|r la so to inform Its Tlllsgs braaefee** and the geadormerlc
iOe bean instructed that if landlords appeal to titea for helpf they &*t
to help to collect on this baala*
1- • no',*,.. to r port i*m the aenl^h .urle.
Acaoniing to th^ Fersiaa Co^uindaat la fabrls^ Sheikh Aodul ^aair# the
principaX chief of the Jalcii dur4a near Aiaku f has been arrested oy the
huaaiiah military authorities* bar tip Durakhftb&ml has s«ked the Huaaian
Oeoeral uline ;y to have him bended over to the Persian military* If
h^ geta hi& heikle cm Ida, he deolarce, he will hsgv^ him eh it within
thrtis? duyb. fhere are* it »*#&&$ a nmaber of capital chargee against
Sheikh Ahtiul *aair, ineludihc. tlie buraing of a gemdamerle poet with
two geadaftttts im it labt year* a felloe chiiitaiu of th^ Jalalia*
hie to rro, was. taken , ah executed by the Ferelaa hmy last year* Sheikh
,Vd%>ul .^u.ir f however* U believed t » b i supporter of the uiiela* ahd it
&& hinielf supported by tlie £u& kia A deputy or lieutenant of the governor in Ottoman Iraq, with additional responsibilities as a high-ranking provincial judge. &a* It is doubtful whether they will
hutih lilm over* If it is true tact he nee been arrested* it is more
likely that he km been ^.hiog a i-aUhsaoe of hi me elf to the gueelaae*
and that after a warning* they will let him go*
i&&* ighabak* the 1 incident lavolviag the hritlah Stoma Yaa* meatioaed
in the lest Diary* pare 1S1* eaa reported aeitaer to the dussiaa aor the
Pertiaa suthorltiee* siue^ tae former t^eoretioally have ao authority
there* aad th latter effectively have n^ai* doth* hewevur* quickly
iearne^ of it eh. the ierelea dossai ad eat hastened to e^prese his regret*
Paw iiun&l&.n srt- reliably imported to h^ve corrected some of the
dfckanatr&tarti* ihe due#lea Vlee«*0>uaui from Besaieh visited Mshabad the
day alter tm ^how* md expressed diapleaemre when he he^rd about the
inoldeat* Ah Armenian with a Russian wile* who seamed to have been the
leader at the dooftnat ratio a* wws eent off to Stazaiak ani six ithe re wer-
4 .ut in prison for a few days* 1m same report saye that the thisslea
Viee-Coaaul took aatv from tbe o ;ier oi tava garage *here th# wlaasia Van
apeht the ait.ht a large portrait of dtalla - which must have hurt*
wafci gahaBvd ^iao cumt? la for gome criticise from thv U? ad log eltlsea^
ior act keeping better order*
the Rditor of the de&elea newspaper* also heard about the
Inainent ana rejoiced* a.; printed a brief artiola oa July 1st* la which
he neatly used tae incident to demolish all th t bad been clained for
the mobility of tat Kurde la th- aommr to hi^ antW&urdiah article
which a.: peered a few weeks ago* (de« last diary* para XSl)* Kurds* he
lap 11 as* are bast (Per.) A Persian custom allowing an individual to seek asylum at a designated location. do. a to bite ta<. hand of * «i*B*
xa*. ... •■ ui. A pa;.lto aatlo* U*« *j»p«*r«4 •auraiwlag the
femstlea of a Company with b hillioa rial® capital to sink artesian
wells to provide a water supply for tht town# bharee are being sold
at 1*000 rials cac^ 9 ©ad 23 merchants will subscribe one third of the
satire capital* Machinery* said to be capable oi boria.. to a depth of
8*b0> iietr^s* hag been imp or tea with the asslet&aee of th<i Soviet
vanaul«*heaeral here from the Soviet waioa* fhe Xabria auaicip lity has
aaactloaed action and has telegraphed to fenrah for pemiasioa to begin
work* iive million rials is ebvleualy an inadequate sun to provide a
proper piped tater *U;> ly for this city of over 200*000 l£%abitaaSe* but ;
it euaything ever does come of iiw projeot* a few wells entering into
eouipetiticu may have a eaiutory effect on the profiteering and
i.^efrici*ncy of the present ester ^ouopollsto*
idh* dQ^k|^rfiial Sew.fc * 4he oulef sellers in tan past fortnight have ‘been
the Russian Trade Ageaeyr* they have ^old about 200 bags of troft sugar
at Rib* 45 to 4B per kilo* sad they hav^ s»a« 43 t ns of lump sugar
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