Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎299r] (600/1237)

.iuji<ii£ud#a »ujt i* has ao objvot loa to tho Amortoaaa oucti If
tn«y osa produce the renults, but thinks that so far the/ hare
i sixjLt> d i l I’t sit/X,/ •
j^^. lon». -ix*# < ♦ tii® XaBaH* trdisport
aanag^r t» iabri^, *+«6 bs?®n naplaced b/ Mr* Illoh* who ©ajoya a in
groat®* af&our® the coafideoce of hi» chief la Tthraa* H® b&s
.; already effeatad one ehaage of polio/ Ixi that iwt ooaaidora tiie
coaaarvatioa of his float a primary duty and has forbidden operation
on the iaori&*>j«har and vrdebil'-Jiraii Bilasava* roads until « on tin*'
as the/ are repaired* mi© step, however neoeeaaiy, will furtiier
hanaicap grain collection a© 5,000 tona are awaiting transport at
.dxar 44nd dfOOO tons at Jir&ie Xiauiediatel/ it means that Talaris will
on cut off to a great extent irtaaa its natural source of supply at
Ahar and that it must he fed from atopies at »raebil e&marlced tor
lenr&n, not to iaention the wasteful diversion of transport to this
longer route. 1
It is clear that the Moads Department should be brought into
closer contact with the 0®reals and Transport Departments* There is
moreover the question of finance* The Koads -^epartisent in
Aserbaijn estimate© its btuiget requirement© at 7il0,000 titans* but
no more than 100,000 tumm© have been sanctioned.
Parvas, the former head of the poata and
163* 5UDD
Ulegraphs at Tabris, is still under arrest in oonnecti >n with"the
MUqacaeti scandals*
JO. Official aaied Uanaotti-i tiaa been sent fraa iWipaa to
organise tne distrlbuUua of ratioaeil goods in Tabrls f uid each
haueenolh lo being asked to ociBiplete a qucatloaaaire.
aa ®pl« 1 f t b a aOe by ,uair Assad of ths Dsbonkri about ths
wltiiholdlng of last year’s sugar ration from his tribe have borne
ijuit abundantly• on tho one h&nu tits Director of I Inanoe. to
in Juatioe, hae issued hi» with a oonslderable quantity of
additional augar (in Ux# case of wheat SO kilos per ton instead of
the normal is kilos/ for ths £>000 tons of grain he has re osutly
sold under the barter sohsae. ibis has caused annoyance to nelKh-
fehm^h^ 1 ! 88 * 4 U “ tha ? tb f r tbe ^««i»oly Ooods Depsrtawnt at
iehrun has issued separate Instruct ions for the issue of ten tons of
sugar to .uair Assad* but the Director of 11 nance apparently deaura
to carrying out tills order as it would aean a double ruae jy . Tiiia
action has provoked protests from uslr issad* ^
.huaiclbality* ihe municipality recently received a nn«
-unde froa tehran sad was able to pay its employees to the eui of
ordlbenasht. --igaty street cleaners have been dlsalsind ior lack of
aoney; md pro-Auaslan orators have been taking the occasion lor an
-”? 8 *. 0 ** “ r * Ailiopaugh who insists on money raised in Tigris being
sunt to i-anran. *hy should not money raised in Aesrbaijaa stay in
..aerbuijun, Umy ask ? ,nd why should fabric bs allowed a aunioioal
^portwit^lty 11,301,100 t1- 6188 01 Umt ot l8lafa ««* « much less
.^amhla^laaat. fh* hinistsr of Justice has
apparcafl/ dec idea that imee reg flat ion© do not apply in tln&
prey lace* end re ate in Xabrie are be lag increased in wholesale
fashion by 300 to 400,-. It 1© now in my caae extremely difficult
to find acooamodation.
156.
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About a fortnight
.ad mar Dfluradis and twenty
The cause of
— _ ---— ODi^in^, from *FuXfa was dera*.,*wui *aaimr 1 x
om aviet solalsrs ora said to have lost their lives, rne orauas
proo ? bly th * •* e «‘«8ive speed of the trnin on an
i i bUt %a * pursuing thslr enquiries with
}'“x• JV t> iau,aa • '>notuer accident occurred a few days later
near iaa, between Sufian and ..arand, when a train from fabrl* loaded
/with