Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎187r] (376/1237)

06 • Zber* iiHV 2 be .a nj articles in the eriod unde
review tc v.nich oojeotion oouXd be taken. It *ouli seen tit
ei-.active action nait been taken Doth by the dovernor-General and
the boviet ^oxiaui-Ueneral• ihe a )vem r-sjeneral do t the 3th* of
ieoruar called the ne^sp^per editora together t hie office nd
le^i* ti.tfaa b leetui*© on theii 4 duties anu responsibilities• it is not
what action the soviet bonsu.1—General nas taken 9 'but as he
expressed the strongest disapproval of one anti-hritisn article to
wiiicu nie attention was ur&.n and as no m -re nave appeared since
then,the inierence la that he has done soutething*
wiuhaaiuad iiuhaanadluyi Abbaai,a youxig dom^unist who wrote this
article,has receiiLly printed a pamphlet in ersiaa celled H Sarl Aarx,
^enm and Stalin n Twenty copies of this worn hav. been sent by the
iudeh t ax 1 ty to eacxi bovei'n&ent onice with a demand for the oricci
one toman 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. per copy.
lvv0 ^ ew papers nave appeared or are shortly to appear in Tabriz:
unors nd Azaci and Shahia • the latter is not so much new as
resuscitated, its editor is habiu ighazadeh,a prominent Tudeh member
ifff • t X X U Uc h
political pa;t
£3?ILL* ^hex* are some circumstantial ramours that a new
■ tp has been 1 ormea,the alia of which is strictly to
ndcu x arty • it is said to have been organize I oy a
Persian colonel recently ar ived from Tearan,and to count among its
memoer* a number of ,rmy of.leers urn t least one well-known Mulls-
i«irza iiusaelu -a iz. Its recruiting methadc: are said to be simple:
tnc part w pays each illiterate member 25 rials per day ad e^ch
literate member 4 ton us. mother rumour is tint the inti-Tudeh
-arv, i- self is only a rumour - put about by th, Soviet authorities
in order to brin^ into discredit certain army officers lor wh^se
expulsion tae v are seckin^, an excuse* If the rumours nave on,
foundation ut all,tiiey may be conrxuctea *ith a certain very obscure
party called Iran-i- ,zad", which is run ay a young .uaa celled
Ismail Iqdam,who declares niitself to ae a follower of 3e yid Ma and
an implacable ahem, of Tudeh Iran,but hose own following se uas to
nave existed so far only in his imagination.
58. The acting w-oasul-ueaural visited Aezaieh bet ween
February 3th. and loth, a separate report on t,.is visit uaa be n
bnbu*.itted to h. ri. Aabassador.
rcnDirnor i u-^c^ran . Vanan Oa8tonisa,an Armenian
cleric from Echmiadzin,near drivan in Soviet Armenia,wno has,it is
understood,bem appointed ^rmeniaxi ArchDishop for nehran and Isfahan,
passed through Tabriz on his way to xehran during the second week in
February. It is learned that the election o* the ^renoibhoo if
doviet Armenia is to oe held at iScnmiadzin in M ay this year nd tnrt
eicCi. rs are n >*v bei .g cuosen by the Armenian communities in ersia*
it appears thut two electors,one cleric and one la man,arc to go
Iron Tabriz. The xmenian bisho of Tabriz was proposed as one
elector,but apparently declined on ground© of age•
iTe..--i&. several instances of loss &nu tnext in the
local post /filets nave recently come to light. ius -n loyee of the
Tabriz post office is Laid to have stolen 5,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. in cash
fi iu r.gistered pcCxets. .hen detected and accused uy his chief,he
ac/niowlcagbd tiie theft,u^t announced that he ..as a member of the
j. xdeii rarty arid defied his chief either 4 to dismiss aim or ,o .land
i.uu ver to the police, uther .ua. loyees ai'e said t 5 have sold off a
ixiAicer of linesmen's tents stored n the office.
' a - l * nc.i. 1 i e„^♦ The bazaar h, b not be.n activ carl., the period
u^ider rwView. The first news of the Russian inroads into Oermany was
parai^ sing; later,meroaants breatned again,u t onyers are f ew and
cautious. O.ily in cotton w am t. A e usaal speculation goes on - latest
y 'icea ore from 4,6u0 rials to 4,800 rials per bale - A tnere h a
ceea esAw buying f \oollea materials which the local iashnineh
*extxlc factory An East India Company trading post. is unloading at reduced prices. The export trade in
carpets is at a low ebb,only fourteen bales - about 2",000 kilogrammes
/ - having
combat the