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Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [483r] (968/1237)
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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iti^ vf , Vxii^ii . ifrdW have ueen still lower temperatures
with snow which Dlocked the Tehran roaa Tor intervals of a
lew hours and then a olizzard on February S 5 rd 9 which caused
T'e serious aloc&s anu or iu^nt down t*iie telegraph wires over
a stretch of some miles. Hundreds of vehicles in British,
American and Hussian convoys were strandec, out on the 25th
a one-way passage was cleared over the Bhibli Pass and many
oi them struggled in zo Tabriz on the 26th, but the road was
a c , 8 in blocked during tne night of the 27th-28th. As usual,
it was tho wind v.nicn caused the trouble oy blowing snow into
deep drifts in road cuttings. The total snow-fall probably
did not exceed two leet.
1 his wind, the Xirst sustained gale Inis winter, has
performed a useful function for agriculture. It is wind which
piles the snow into immense drifts in the mountain hollows where
it. remains well into ttie summer, providing the streams essential
for irrigation.
^ ix o » All available labour has been pressed into
tne worK of snow clearance, but it is complicated oj the large
number of military vehicles now using the road* The Russians
are thrusters pretending to make light of the difficulties as
compared with conditions in Russia, but getting themselves well
ana truly stuck in snow driits none the less. Then the Persian
drivers in cnarge oi u.R.O.O. trucks are undisciplined by nature
and always push their trucks forward even when they can see that
by doing so they are going to create an iiopasse for say a convoy
coming in the opposite direction through a one-way passage, when
the wind is actually blowing Persians refuse to work, with reason
because the cold is intense. The difficulty on Xebruaiy 28th is *
that although the men are at work, the snow walls have in places
become so high tnat men cannot throw the fresh drifts out over
them.
The winter remains,
of severe weather, one of tho
despite this Delated little spell
mildest ever .mown.
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able to
w Dodge
I reported in my diary No. 5, the Russians
seemed disposed to provide transport tnemselves for the
lying at Vrdebil; then they snapped at Hr. Vivian that
n right to count on tnis help and that they might not be
provide transport. Finally, they suddenly produced
lorries and in this rather grudging v/ay they have
/given
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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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