Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎171r] (344/1237)

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eveiiiie that have occurred in
of i’abriz h; ve Deen ag re able
general situation , 3 Whila
the last fortnight to •hii#an ^ |
onea - the apeotac ea aiid juAaftfeigf_#th nehich the anniversary^of
the i-ved .,r^ji was c^lebr^fed! - there have been several outbreaks of
violence in Gif Cereal parts of the proviice w..icn ^ay indicate that
ti'ibe&iiien villagers are feeling the fir at s tirri^igs of spring*
of the Isyer of snow ^aich still covers aoet of Azerbaijan
although ofiioials axfd j&eronants in their present stale of unoer«*
taiiity ann apprenensioxi axe reclined to see in these scat tered
incidents the si^*a oi a deeper and r.ider moveiaent* such of the
closes as can be 8 scortained seem to i^dicate that the incidents are
nothing more than nr* to oe eoioected where such ap ^arently irrscon—
ci table enemlea as Gendame and siui'd* laden peasant and non—Tudeh
tribe nan live ia such cloze proximity, Xt^ is in fact impossible
to see any consistent ali^fhaent of forces inf these incidents: at
iio': ieh, -eraian troops clash with Kurds who are members if the
laden - arty; ne ir . the Tudeh Party indignaiitly demands the
protection of -t'ersian troo a against attacks oy tricesmen who are
tasabeis of the ludeh l&rty, and at mahabad, town-availing Kurds
shoot policemen lor several reasons> none of them particularly new
.t w its u . 1 02 -1unate that the disturbances at these three places all
occurred w min a iw— days after the /iCting nritish Consul-General
h..-a v;asi.-e q txxi'.‘ugh* tot whe icaijani mind uoet not reco- nir.e
coincidence.
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ill^ied successes in Germany seem already to be casting on Tabriz
uhe su-dov> .jf industrial collapse whicn uiic looctl factory An East India Company trading post. owners have
persuaded themselves will he the inevita le concomitant of Allied
Victory• Gne of the bigger textile 'factories is on the verge of
bankruptey * 11 not actually over the edge; several smaller concerns
art cl using down and the managers of the rest nave given up j
wonder ihg .*ne* e they are goiif, to ^et the next month's W'.ges from*
^dd ax^ concerning tiitimbeivec only with aecuring their own line of
retreat to Tehra***
-he new. of the declarations of war by Turkey and Kgypt liaw been
received without enthusiasm.
4G. i_ti^is,lan off 1 c iti t ♦ humours oi the c xain^, train for ot the Govern
General oi the ihlrd ust u$ mendi n&uvax** wnich have been current for
m:,ny months, have gathered such 1 roe now that they n.ve led one Tude
newspaper to asiert outri^iit that the Govei*nor—General nas in fact
oeen recalled to Tehran and has refused to ,‘uey tne summons. Thii,
coti-entb the paper, ia fine sxan.le of loyalty ior the G vernor—
General to set, and hints tnat ix ne aoea not ^o, tixe farty will find
the means to set him on uis way* This has drawn from the Governor—
General a retort in the form of a wall-notice eirued by his chef de
cabinet, mehdi Garni *1, sa u iih, that far from having beexi summoned to
Tciir ,u, ue himself some time ago asked for >e mi salon to visit the
capital to direusa tue problems of Azerbaijan with the minister, but
that there arc certain natters he must settle before leaving Tabriz,
and he ha not in any case received a reply to hia request ot,
a he newspaper clai a that hoham .*ed All the head of the
aepartmexit of Justice for the two Ugtans, hue- seen appointed oy the
minister of the Interior to act in place of hehdi hadvar. The
la ilex- iu his w&il-notice claims taut ne hliaself suggested this
appointment •
>.c co rdin^ to G&rh&ng 1) or a axx six an i, Gosa^uandant of rersian troops
n Tabriz and ex-aovernur-Gexieral ox the fourth Ugtaa, Mehdi Dadvar , s
-e oval is sure, and. i *tim-rdi, wno is uixdersto )d to have been
X merly minister oi .^riculture, has already been apoo in tod as his
successor*
, ihere ia no f urthei‘ news of Garhang Durakushani f s own successor -
'f a bami'i, the Goverxior—General designate of .-©stern Azerbaijan
^the fourth Ust an • It is beginning to oe believed that rum vura of
u-ruat have led him to modify uis view oi the attractions of residence
at k©z ich.
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