Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎254r] (510/1237)

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C. darheog Duralchehani admitted th^t he had not he^n
entirely »nc^easful in dealing with ^ero Sti? and his t3 ferki
follov^era In the Bar ndo* district. He Bad mutt ad to aroel
hiB frcm the village of rukie, but h«d met with dif r ioulties.
;.ero Beg had, on the one head, some eu^ort from the soviet
authorities, who took the view thrtt he was not a mere interloper
with leas then »quf.<tter*« rights, but the GoTernor-Oeueral now
hopes th t he h■« been able to pereu^he them to the contrary.
On the other hand, no forcible potion could be taken so Ion**
as the Iraq Herki under Fattah «re grazing their flocks in
^argiyar ea they had promised Zero tl elr surnort. ? *e is now
wsiting until they regain their winter quarters when he will
again attempt to expel Zero. In the meantime he is trying to
isolate him politically fro® the surrounding t^ibsa ami physio-
a cordon of gendarmerie posts,
shepherd and bee no inherited
his follower®, who have merely been
of brigandage• If therefore, the
ally by tfee establishment or
Zero was originally an Iraqi
claims on the allegli nse of
drawn to him for the spoils
Oovaraor-Oenaral argued, one cf*a prevent '’ero froia plundering
his follower® will ilsparse. Bo far, howevsr, the
effort to stop Zero 1 a extortions lm$ not succeeded and neigh
bouring villages are still faced with the alternative of Trying
blackmail or be lag robbed. Oarhang Pesmkbehasil Yaa quite
definite that the ioviet authoritice are not out to enoonr^ge
lurdish lawlessness. The present Soviet Consul, he said, had
expres ed himself Bt^oafly *;n the subject and urged him frequent
ly to deal with it energetically. He also recounted that the
former Soviet Consul, Ipatov, had been taken to t»sk by the
Soviet Consul-Oeneral from Tabriz in hie mresanoe for hie
entirely negative attitude towards Kurdish incursion©, ^’he
Governor-aeneral g&ve it es Ms opini n that the attitude of
thfi ovlet authorities is now definitely more helpful and * a-
oribas mueb of the trouble in the past to the irresponsible
conduct of Indl /lduel loviet of'Moials.
?. The Oovernor-Ouneral had many hard words for the Kurdish
tribes between Keneien end the 'Russian frontier, particularly
for the Jelali. He attributes all the blame, however, to their
chiefs and regard* the tribesmen as th© defenceless vieUra or
a system wher fey they fre sent out to rob rnd get kill'd or, if
euocessful, to pert with the booty to their chiefs. For this
reason he regards the chiefs as generally unpopular with their
* trifeee. One Jelcli eble^/bas air ery h&m arrested for rob ery
by the tussiaas and handed over to © "erai^n military c-urt for
;trial. He will be shot. Th© other princi^r;! J^lall culprit
whose arrest is desired Is Shslkh Abdul Cadar, whose mon recently
set fire to a gendarmerie noist near bteku, bmrnlm two gendarmes
alive. The state of insecurity in the ,£ aku diatMct had ^resstly
interfered with harvest oper tions and with consider ble diffi-
eulty bd hrd managed to convince the Soviet authorities that it
wa» necessary to ©*?n& Persian troops there (the number, I he&rd
w other sources, is three hundred) to protect the inhabit .
These troops reached Zhoi on Beptembar S9th and were due to
arrive at H&ku the following dey. The Oovernor-Ganers.l anoke
var aly of the oo-oorr tiv© anirit or the Soviet Consul in Makel
and I cannot but think that the cation or th© Soviet authorities
in allowing Persian tr ops in tfi© Taku area is an ©vent of
olnl significance# I also understood that monopoly goods
are unlikely to be issued to these lawless tribes, such issues
being mad© conditional in future on good behaviour.
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6. I found the ^oviet Consul*.t« with an entirely new staff,
V. Daniel Komissarov having replaced M. Ipatov and ?!. All
kkbarov, a native of Baku, substituting U* Belikov# M. Komissarov
told m® th.* t h© had previously been press attache in Tehran end
bad graduated at Hoe cow in Oriental ian.ru&gea, Persian being the
ust. He spoke with o aside able fTlendllness of the members of
the British imbeesy he had met in ?ehr<ta# He did not appear too
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