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Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [400r] (802/1237)
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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owner pays a sum equal to ten times tne t'reiLht charges* In tills
ease it v;as considered that in view of the shortage of wheat in
Tabriz the correct course was to hand it over to the Wheat Department.
Why the authorities aid not keep this wheat, so urgently needed in
town, and pay the owner for it at tne official Government price, is
heyond comprehension, and one is forced to suspect collusion between
the owner and the authorities. Meanwhile the manager of the UKGC is
^pointing out to the authorities that the Jorporation has a claim for
^ who wear and tear of their t^res and that lie is referring the matter to
lehran for instructions*
On August 2bth the UhJG manager, ^r. Pay, having reason to
suspect that trucks were using the Anar road for illegal traffic,
himself went out at night ulon*, the road and was successful in catching
four trucks returning from Aiiar with loads of wheat, rice, charcoal,
apples, e 0 gs ana carpets* iien ^r. Day nad not returned the follow
ing morning, tlie fact was report, ed to this Consulate-General and
Colonel hdgell, who happened to ue staying here, kindly lent his car
which was sent out with Mr* Day’s assistant and two British soldiers*
They found Mr. Da/ surrounded by a numoer of irate track-drivers and
their equally irate customers and were fortunately in time to prevent
what might have Jten an ugly scene. At tue subsequent enquiry * r.Day
elicited the information that a certain Akbar Anoari had been acting
as a go-between for the drivers of the vehicles and the consignors of
tiv illegal loads* Also taat me officer in charge of the gendarmerie
at Ahar had been acting in a similar capacity at that end whilst an
unknown person in Ahar had been falsely representing himself to be
the a.ent of the UhCC. Again on August S7th, another UKCC truck
illegally back-loading wheat overturned on the same road and was badly
damaged•
All the above facts were reported officially by this Consulate-
general to the Governor-General with the request that the local
authorities should also put the idiar road out of bounds to UK.CC
vehicles. If the gendarraerie officer is found to be implicated in the
traffic, it is proposed to ask the Governor-General to remove him to
some post where less temptation will be put in his way.
unce a^ain it must dc pointed out that this illegal traffic will
continue until the UhCJ is allowed to >,ack-load afflotally axxd so help
1 to relieve the coxigestion of goods for which totally insufficient trans
port is available. Presumably ta© over-riding considerations adduced
by the Co manner-in-Chief against tne proposal still hold good since
nothing further has been heard of the natter, although General Townall
spent several days in Tehran towards the end of July and, no doubt,
I went into the question then on the spot. It is £incei\.ly to be hoped
that this problem will not be shelved and that if, at any time, the
situation justifies a change of policy, this will be put into effect
without delay. Meanwhile, Mr* Day and ills very small staff are
battling nobly and conscientiously against the illegal traffic at no
inconsiderable r^-sk to themselves*
Dacal Government The recall of Serlashkar ^aqaddam, the
Governor-General, nas raised quite a local storm. It is generally
believed tuat it nas come aoout as a result of the criticisms of
Deputy Tabatabai in the Majlis on August 15th against the manner in
which the elections were being organised in iauriz*
The exact date on which the Governor-General received his in
structions to go to Tehran is not known, but there is good reason to
ueiieve that he suppressed the news as long as ossicle axid meanwhile
rallied his supporters and organised demonstrations to take place
when the news of his recall became known* On August 30th two of
General ^uqaddam’s chief supporters, Jurabchi and Calcuttachi, both
well-known industrialists and candidates for the ... ajlis (gossip says
they each paid the Govern or-General 100,000 rials for supporting
their candidature) induced the bazaars to close on the pretext that
the Governor-General was being recalled to Tehran because he had been
/insisting
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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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