Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎166r] (334/1237)

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Xi'wvl# u«ui Aly olaim to diatiactlon - no doul t a etroa
Is a .r.vuit virtuosity in rcnd^riag U*a x-odsil-teasing aoK of
ox-ic* ;t.jl soag* uo was privet. ^ jugator to the Xro^j rlnio^ erii Tabriz
i.i j&r tl ..ei, e ,io roc - rdf, :u;dc .y aJba or. oc on a 1 -a-UX^aTl LIkgt i^-4 ^
• 0 . s Poraifiu
.ivl. , a & m&t ch U4ttl^* i tho n©Eu* of tbo Coaalaoliia of
* iiuiry appolntoi to investigate the riot in Mahabad on February 15 th.
£».,id that hi expected to le«▼« Tabris shortly as the Persian force
doapatcned by Jartlp Jiujinnmo ai ahar to Buxen (last D 1 iry f para 55 ) h‘;-d
waterec. Kan-..bad* Tniw report was premature, for two days Inter the
u v trnor-a«n«ral J ?i haatern a erbaijaa the Bua^ians had
definitely rex used peraiasi a for the force to proceed to Mahabad and
it haa m* t axe b^cx to **henoe it started. Too 0 ver:ior-Oeaera 3
wes unable t j oonl irm a report that there had be-n, trouble between this
force and the Soviet garrison at dlaaduab. According to this report,
the - ereian loic .. ioved out ir >;u Sarui, between dukan and Mianduab, but
w-^c -et oy the officer demanding the Huaaian garrison at the latter
place, who told the ierelan officer in conaiand that he could not permit
the move leant of the i or si an force without first seeking in struct ions
frm the oviet dene ral in Tabria. ihe Per sin.* officer replied that he
fan®, carry out his orders, which were to occupy Mahabad, and according^
ly aarened on. The hua^ian doaiaandaxit than move out a ioroe consisting
of six guiis iid 150 cavalry from mlaaduah yid opposed the Perel -n^
advance. The uneoaiirmid rep rt says that the uasian cavalry charged
tne Persiana with drawn >. .ores. No blood appears to have been shed 7
however. The Parslan comm^sadiag officer, yielding to force rnajeure,
w it acre, hia men to Bunsua, where, it is id, a Kurdish chief acted aa
mediator between tne Persian mid Buasi in oo^aaundera and satisfied trie
hue a ion that the rersian torc-c would retire to Saqqle the next ao rising,
when it had rested.
it would aeon that the *ersian authorities here havs taken this
reverse as final, for the aaimiltaiua if Eaqu ry um n v batn diverted
to make a tour round Ardebil, Bust?: a a bad, Sarah Mishgin, to enquire
i n -ore an • matters*
lucre is a probability that the Oomaaridant if ' ersiaa troops in
Tabriz, uartip huraknshuni* has not viewed this proposed incursion
ox. iiufcbj&and’e force Into ^iahabad with -uaxiiulty. Than it was first
proposed .*« express u the opinion that the force would ba .der hia
?rdera, said he is now be 1 levad to support the Hussion p>iat of view
that the g,;,rrieonin. of Mahvibad hould be carried cut by troops of the
Third Division, .nder his comaud* A 1. t<- uuc mi irned report cays that
a x-,n a. if. u-v. to be eent to meh^bad tr na Tabria, under Sarhang Jalili*
iy « The leaue of rati *a~ car it in the village-? his
ao\v oc^un. An 1 nap-ctor i ro^ Tehran, a certain Shibaai, haa arrived
to supervise the work.
An otliei; i or the Tin ace Jepsrfcmeat raportt- that about March 28th.
In Mianeh a gan^ led xy Tudeh - v arty members stopped a lorxy carrying
vhaut to os loaded at the station for Tehran, and carried off Its
e jut iite. They ueciared eno , 4 h wne^t oad now b . ea sent to Tehran and
the„ were not going to risk ? anorta^e in Azerbaijan* Fears of a
abort age in this province ar,- ground lese, and tale ie the first time
they nave beau ne«r^ expressed lor about ilx <aontas*
Tkbu : rttty we 1 all tiie imoortant factories of
Tabria ar« eontr lied oy a handful of loco 1 capitaliat®. ;hile the
people principally Interested in the faehsa nth Factory An East India Company trading post. , the brothers
Jurabehii haVi cut tnlr losses and departed to safer place, the
at.rugglefe of this v*nnapp; c ac-rn, unable either to « nx or a^im, are
watched ivith deep inteisst uy the owners of the ntuer factoriec, not only
beo.iuae ol their financial cumit.atats, ut oecause it ic pretty cert-in
that it is mly ® question of ti e before the >ther factories rr® in
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