Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎441r] (884/1237)

^ take between five and six & out bo* 2.
it is evident that an undue proportion of the time is lost
in ti*e Hear ksst area# Malle ir xa ^gypt, iaiestlne# i’urkey take
•au^u too lon^, to gat re# it se&ae high tins fur sons one of
bUAiiai^nt authority to get off hie of floe anair end go along the
routes to see lor himself shat is happening# 1 feel sure that he
Vvnt£A»&isouv*r i«^a oi .^uiokeuiiit, the iiov vith no addi uionul outlay*
! It iuust not he forgotten than one ox the yardstioks for judging any
control Is th* state of its communications, snd that «e ans held
responsible, as heiag generally in cntrul in axe hear *«st# Public
^ opinion won’t allow us t o take shelter behind this or that local
* - aubhozl ty#
114• duppi^^ tu in the latter naif of May the How
slackened and there is talk ai its heitg aiverted, temporarily, to
l iahlavi# kaaitim<s the ^usui&ns have been getting a good cup ply of
railway waggons an; h&ve considerably reduced the congesticm at the
station#
I hey have, uow©v«r, failed to bring bitumen which they had
promised foi w tUu latprcvanant of th© mein road, %nd now It is
probably too late to do afythin e effective until after the hat
weather# a he Royal ,aginaar& sr.y that by than ^he road surface
will be in t sorry state#
June 4th a us si anr controlled convoy, with isrslam
drivers, ooae over the top of the vhlbli pass, goiog too fast as
usual, und us usual i^oxorad the - era!an posted with a reddt flag to
give earning of road works In progress# i'im loriy failed to round
a bend and aameraeultad down to rest on the bend below, but
scattering its cases of ammunition further downwards among the
workman building the support lag wall to hold tha threatened land
slide# two were killed end three injured# ^ ork stopped cmd the
mu arc being troublesome#
X pointed out. In paragraph 97 of this diary, that there was
no aac&d effective control at this point# 1 nave asked the
Ruasione here to post military guards, but they hxve done nothing,
son die iersi en gendarmes whom I had placed are ineffective against
...uuaiu&c# 4 joint cody, X understand, meets in fchran to consider
suen questions} it is in its midst that a few cases of ammunition
ought to full.
11b* I he fooa situation in Ishris reasonably aecuxe • file
local authorities fiml to borrew & wn bO tons ir m, t he hue sin no at
a given moment because toe official lorries seem to be making
heavy wedtuar of tti% wheat irom tin# villages wo fabris# fhe
Soviet aoneul denerel tolu me tuat jhe kuoassador had taken a poor
view of thA bov«rnor-^«nerul J s perf^mimoe in this matter of
gewtlmg wheat to fshris# -s the Russians nau at one stags had the
use ox &11 Uic looiil of f ioial XoxTiee f sx* hrisging their own grain
in, I thought this a trifle ungrateful#
115# al y u v a nx.. aat . five millioix x’ials is the arum which the
boveamcr-ueneral and Ewhrwani (Mr# Vivian’s groat anssy -sad
te?&por&ry successor in the aupply ! bept*} are roper tea to iisve mads
off the sugar**'or-whsat sxahsags# ^Hawing for exaggeration, it
a^«iac likely tn.t, despite his acri mu illnc&s, der ^atdikar
i&ogaddam did not lot blip a fairly easy opportunity to add to his
personal f ortune* I &*» Mm on Aqf diet, a;U altaough on his feet
he wuu still a very el ok maxi#
Humour turn it tha t he Ms oven su^omd to Ichraa, that his
position, is ahedsy, but that act ing: to his ill-health be has been
left alone 1 or f ho t iac 'be ing
in uxisf firut i 4 »rt of , the esvernor-^em* ral'e kinmaan,
Pcbirl , the Qsrtraor of hhoi, was summarily turned out by aider
from fehran over fm C-avernor-Oan^ml 1 u head and with out any
notiflosti on to him. iHisn I soundsd him about it the a over nor-
uener.-l said that kobix'i had compelled suttury landlords to hand over
their ^heat, ;-ad tuat thoy had intrigued agehist him in :eehrm# He
sddsdt M f U ro was nc other rocs an-* In He sal eh Mr* Ogden warn told
that iuoixl , a bit of a wag, w*$ hesld to ramark, trying t o be
iUxny , nc doubt, that he ought to be known as "tovarich Famandar*’
so^d ttmt this eoundad Just too terrible in iehraai ears# Actually
kebiri was, to th» bcU of my knowledge, v^iy thick with tbs
uussiasm* X had to intervene firmly on two occasions to hslp tt»
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