Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎120r] (240/1237)

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Divisier tfeinir* thin figure is ridiculously high, but says he has
kept the Russian Gererel quiet by sending a detachment cf troops
from Ardobil to the 3h hesvan c mps to search for arms. It does rot
seem that any h ve so far been surrendered.
General Glinsky also demanded the surrender ol four hundred
rifles at Mianeh» which the Russians consider tu oe a h t^bed cf
inti-Hussiani i.e. f : nti-Tudeh^activity. S rti > Muraklisli. ni h nded
this b by tc the Grief of Gendarmerie. The l^tte^s deputy went tc
Mian eh and mna; ed to produce five riiles. Gl in sky» b id «■. e Persian
Ce«Bnandant f w.s furious**• . . . r . .
At the end of A iV tierc were still two citizens cf -^i^nen
re»&ining under arrest ,t the order of the Soviet authorities for
alleged participation in the riot at Ki/ineh eurxy xt* Apul* To^y h^v*
nc \7 been released. The Russians hive insisted on the dismissal of
..he Bhkhshdar of Mian eh, An sari, ard it is believed th t a man from
Tehran h .s now taken his place. _ ,
The two Per sian policemen accused of assaulting a Soviet
■mil it ary eti; in eer ir a - -ril (Diary IT • ' , para to>> h^ ve now becii
tiled b*/ Persian mil it* ry court, found guilty and asi; Conced to
H several months 1 H imprisoiuient• The Persian Gcmmandunt rained
priv tely that he h d hastened on the t ial doc., ubo he suspected
that the Russians were waiting to sec. the outcome of this affair
before handing ver to Persian jusooce the six iaen accused of assault
iind r<»- e (Di ry ITo* V, p r^ • The • r ; j wiacteci cX these men
by the Soviet military p lice is winning Tor ulieta «. cortw-n quite
undeserved syra uthy among such Persians as allow theii national
jealousy to get the bettor of their humanity. The Persian Commandant;
fer instance, repe ted, as though he beii«5vcd it, the suggoiticn that
1 the.re was no questio cf rape, the gin not cv Russian ofiicer*s
dau^r*tex at all, but a oomrn n rostitute.
ICC. Amen in Afi i r -3 • Mcsr.be ro of the Electoral College which will
aBscmdle In Ccxim iftdrr in (Soviet Armenia) to erect the new ^rmeniaxx
Pair! -.rch h ve been paesing through T^briE during the last week.
The 2 precer.tative of the All-Bn gland A^aenian (Ju-r^unity, •
Uti^ian, nd a representative of the Gatiioliccs in Britain passed
through, on June 3rd• One bishop, two patriarchs «.*nd two lay
delegates from Egypt and a cleric it m Jerusalem h^vc also passed.
The election is to be l.e'.d from June loth, to June 20th. The British
delegatee hoped t>u t td ey would be invited to pay a vie it to Moscow
after the eleo t i or .
10^. Tudeh and Trade Union Activities. The Tudsi. rarty and the
U r ox.:*:ers’ TjnIVn (skurai Muttaltidei ly u 1 - ti Azerbaijan) have lately
t ken up the cause of the unemployed with some vigour, but so far
without violence. Notices were posted before the middle of Ray
calling on sjII unemployed to register at the Union ofiices, and it
is now el iv»ei that more than 6,000 are registered* On hay l^-th.
a meeting of unemployed was addressed ov Aii Aair Rbisi and Chashm
Asar cf the Tudeh Party, and s teieg am was sent to Tehran urging
a rogramm* of public works to provide em oyment. it mentioned in
particulc• the com leting of the railway from Mianeh to Tabriz; the
e.Tplciting cf cil nd other minerals in Azerbaijan; the building of
hospitals and other institutions; and the granting cf assistance to
en blf the PssVmireh textile mill to re-open, a second meeting waa
held on Jure cth• and a telegram in s milai strain despatched to the
Prime Minister, the Majlis and the Terrar piost. The telegram was
said tc come from five thousand people representing, with their
Aperients, 2f ,000 eouls. About live hunared men attended the meet*
irg. The party ayitst rs, with an excess of zeal ever logic, had
. beer round the factories the day before pressing the workers, in the
Uour 1 w’y, to rttend.
The Union of Gcvemment Employees, which was said at one time
to have been suppressed by order cf the Central Government, held a
meeting on Jure 4th. The Acting Governor-General, Mr. A.V. Hikdjou,
/was