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Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [376r] (754/1237)
The record is made up of 1 file (615 folios). It was created in 16 Dec 1941-6 Mar 1946. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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v> eat her* A spell of exceptionally fine weather has throughout
the period facilitated transport and kindred operations.
Tehran Gonierence. From Saturday, November 27th, to Friday,
\ December Grd, there was no telegraphic communication with Tehran^
although the line was in operation as far as iCazvin. At first this
was ascribed to technical reasons, but on ^onday the 29th the fact
of the conference as the real cause becaiae widely known. In the
meantime there had been various rumours of troubles in Tehran.
Persian pride has been greatly flattered that the conference should
be taking place in Iran. Great results are expected;and my Soviet
colleague clearly feels optimistic about its outcome, especially in
view of the success of the prelixiiinary talks in Moscow/ Combined
with the iniituence of Ankara broadcasts regarding German peace prop
osals through tne Vatican there is a feeling that the war is now in
its final phase. One result has been to check speculation (although
other factors are also at work) and business is stagnant, nominal
wholesale prices being from 5 to 30;^ lower without buyers or sellwrs*
223. Food bituation. It is common ground that the harvest has been
the best for years and that the stocks are sufficient to meet all
the requirements of the local population, the Russians and also
Tehran. Russian requirements in wheat have, in fact, already been
satisfied and the balance of 2,600 tons of barley will present no
difficulty, bocal requirements will also be covered, but no proper
provision has yet been made for Tehran.
The Director of Finance, wno, as already reported in Tabriz
Diary ho.16 Fara.183, is now in control of the Kharbar Department,
informed me on November 30th that he expects to obtain 60,000 tons
of wheat at the controlled price, estimates of 80,000 tons will be
falsified as the assessments were made on the basis of an out-of-
date survey, undertakings to supply 53,000 tons have already been
entered into.
The gloomy side of the picture is, however, that Tabriz itself
has barely a week's supply of wheat in hand, the present stock being
400 tons divided between the silo and the mill with a daily consumpt
ion of 63 tons, to which it has been reduced from 75 tons. To keep
Tabriz t.oing therefore requires a considerable proportion of the
available transport, particularly as the grain in the immediate
vicinity has now been collected and hauls are getting longer.
Road transport is trie crux of the situation. The Road Transport
board at Tabriz, now also under the Director of Finance, has 114
lorries, but they have hitherto been for the most part improperly
used and shockingly maintained. Their drivers are entirely un
disciplined and it is difficult to exert any authority over them.
^ost of the lorrios are at present reported to be'under repair'. In
many cases this is false, the drivers using them meantime for their
own profit. To remedy this state of affairs the Director of Finance
is initiating a plan for sealing all lorries under repair and has
requested Russian co-operation in supervising the use of such
lorries as are on the road.
Of the 40 trucks first supplied by Tehran specifically for
the collection of this year's grain only eleven are now in running
order, the remainder having been seriously damaged through improper
usa^e, drivers having often, among other irregularities, carried
a double lo^d, the excess bein^ for their own account. There still
remain la good ora«r, however, the majority of the 60 trucks sent
later by Tehran. The need for the further 60 since promised is,
it will be seen, very pressing if any eubstantienal progress
towards aoouamlatipn of stocks is to be made before winter 1n
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in very difficult circumstances with a personnel which is^ORtl/ 98 *
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Reports and correspondence concerning the internal situation in Azerbaijan and Tabriz during the region’s occupation by Soviet military forces, part of the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia [Iran] in the Second World War. The file chiefly comprises reports, submitted on a monthly (and later fortnightly) basis by the British Consul-General at Tabriz, reporting on events in Azerbaijan and Tabriz. Reports up to July 1942 are printed, while subsequent reports are typewritten. The typewritten reports are organised under subheadings that vary from one report to the next, but generally cover: weather; agriculture, locust movements, food supply and reports of hoarding; consular tours; the activities of consular colleagues and counterparts; local government, local politics, and elections; Kurdish affairs, including events at Rezaieh [Orūmīyeh]; Armenian affairs; public order; the activities of the Persian, Russian and United States military; trade, commerce and labour; transport and communications, including convoys, and the activities of the United Kingdom Commercial Corporation (UKCC); propaganda. From late 1944 onwards the reports increasingly focus on rising political and social unrest in Azerbaijan, which would eventually culminate in the Iran-Azerbaijan crisis of 1946. These later reports focus on the emergence and activities of new political parties (including the Tudeh Party and the Democratic Party), new political newspapers, and Soviet activities in Azerbaijan.
The file also includes: correspondence sent by the British Ambassador in Tehran, Reader William Bullard, forwarding the Tabriz Consul’s reports with comments to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; note sheets covering numerous reports, giving a précis of the report’s contents; the translation of a report by the Persian Minister for War, secretly obtained by British sources, describing military and political conditions at Rezaieh, dated 17 May 1942 (ff 560-564); a report of a visit to Rezaieh in February 1945, compiled by the British Consul-General at Tabriz (ff 147-154).
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (615 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 617; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’
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- front, front-i, 1ar, 2r:69v, 71r:136v, 138r:150v, 150ar:150av, 151r:194v, 196r:197v, 199r:300v, 302r:420v, 424r:560v, 565r:575v, 577r:581r, 583r:616v, back-i, back
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