Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎115r] (230/1237)

village, near Uaftau, togetuer witu some of the ohi^Ca Mai^givar
auu met chiefs of the ‘Luvzar and mamesn. j , w vf v/wl
A few skirmisher among Kurd & ana alarms oft raids have been
reported fi'om the kazaiuh region in the period Lnider roviewi a
raiding party of 600 (possibly 50) Shakkak kurus is fe©45to h3ve
arrived in dhapur about the iQth. of June, and «r ra TW»t[F r Ws spread
lihat a raid on lasuj and *i 2 il <fah villages was intended* A later
report said that they had been sent home by the Soviet military
commander at dhapur. A fight between the Sheikh Kanlu Gian and the
nilai is reported to have taken place near the village of Gara 2ia ud
Jin, be uween Khoi and ^aku about the iiiicij.le of dune* Accounts of
casual ties arc va,ue* finally, Sheikh Abdul daulr of iaaku has been
oa war path in league with the chief Ali Mihugi, -nd has raided
the village of Chukhurlu Kandi, driving off, it i s said, some 500^
h©c;d of sheep and cattle and killing six Villagers*
l^l* nan^bad ^ur^u * Gazi Mohaasd continues to flourish as the
virtually independent ruler of Mail ab ad * A competent observer who haa
recently viaitea him reports that his Russian ia good.
Xhe British Public Helations Cinema Van visited Mahabad on
eune Potn* anc* gave a show of hritisn films, newsreels, documentaries
an<u comics in the town square* fhe show was given under the patron-*
a^e oi Gazi Mohamad and a good crowd attended* But a counter
demons - ration was got up at the s&mv. time ana marched up and down
near the cinema van, beating drums and bearing aloft a portrait of
Marshal btalin* during the show the leads of the project ;'r ware
twice cut ana someone heaved a brickbat at the Amplifier. In spite
of these expressions of partiality the programme was completed to
the great satisfaction of a large number of th^ townsfolk. Gazi
Mohamad, who had promised protection and supplied some of his guards,
was embarrassed oy the acts oi sabotage, and expressed his regret*
no particular anti-British feeling has been noticed from
Muhabad bcl -re* But the Komals Aurdish Independence Society is
entUusiastically pro-Auseian, and this, to the limited imaginations
of the kahabaa toughs, probably implies bcin c anti-Britisn.
A red flag was noisted in the main street of Manabad on WS.Day
unu remained hoiated for three weeks, it is said, until an official
from the Russian donsulate-Oenaral at labriz, visiting the town,
advised its removal.
fhe branch of the Irano-Boviet Cultural Society in Manabad
which was opened in April (.diary Mo. 8, para 98), seems to be
already languishing, iherc is at present no Russian organiser of
the Society in the town.
.there are frequent contacts between Mahabad Kurds and their
uiothers over the Iraq irontier* A good deal of horse—dealSmg and
corn trading is now going on across the frontier. At this season
the Journey from Mahabad into Iraq can be easily performed on horse
bac.>-v* Aii Iraqi Kurd who ie mentioned in particular as having much
coiamuniaation with ilahabod is a certain beyyid Huseein of Mowanduz.
H Kurdion language paper published in Baghdad, called "Bang! Gedi"
is said to be popular in mahabad.
ine inspect ora of in© xraniaxi Government au .*ply who
v^ent to mahabad some time ago to supervise the distribution of
sugar have re turned with nothing done* Ihey complain that the
chiefs demanded rations for their clans far in excess of the number
oi lotion cards Miey courd pi'oduce, ana no douot bearing in mind the
events ji last February (Diary Mo. 4, para 50) they took the prudent
course of returning to aabriz ana sending a telegram to the Ministry
of Rinane©.
someone calling himself rt A Bon of the Kurds H has wi*itten a
reply to the article attacking the Kurdish Independence movement
wnich appeared in the Rezaieh newspaper ’’Keivan” on April 26th.
(Diary Mo* B, para 98)* ahw writ©! of the reply comes out strjinv,ly
for Kurd is., independence, but conceaes the point that ho ie an
Iranian, because* he lives In Xran ,> * Xn© Kurds would like to live
peaceably as brothers ana xxeit-hoours with the Iranians, but without
any interference from the latter in tneir internal affairs. At
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