Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎524r] (1050/1237)

jn ua1iob«r 2 -itfa 1 l«lt for a porioaio viait to
Miriicter ai. i'ouraa. I wisaod to travol via ‘.rdabil,
^8wux*a aiiU t.iv. ua* liussiari ro-a*.i» ttiviioo to iiaahtt but tiio
s*ovi«t Oousui-GaUs. ral ^o-igod ao aot to pros a Uixa for trie
uocossary pur-alt for wraoa, ho s^id, X should apply to too
doviuu i£abaaay at iohrau. X should axplaia ho re that th&
soviet authorities aro u . soma 4aop a
^ihister pm^oso in the Ardaoil-Aatara-Uaapiaa region/ Aiss
ralmar-aaith (who eollaeta iafomati m for mom bars of H. *;•
wUgation axid »'no has rvosritly bean, ral used parmisslon to return
to Asaroaijan) startled the soviet CoosuWarural in tioe
middle of June sy asking for par mi a al on. to return to X'ahraa
via tuat route. In tue third was it of June two britien officers
war# arrastea at Ardabllp having gone tiaara alt m permit*
ihe Air Vla*~ al, when na visit ad fabriz at tiie be/irmi
of boptembar, prasaad Qanaral di el hi A for* parmisei jxx to fly
oadf, txiat way; a# ootalnao It but the political officers
cancel lad it the anuia avaniiig. bn nis seco-ii visit on ;xjtouer
14th, he praaaed very hard for perm!salon to travel to fahran
viu Ardabil and toe Caspian anu was refused. All this h&a
croaf ed in tne Russians c;ul ta a c duplex and f or the noment
1 hardly know now to overcame it.
00. Midi .i .'t-vi. i 4.’ kiM* Oeaeral rourzaad arrived in faoriz on
x*a-aataoiish the Azerbaijan Division. The
Atu&iiiuhs by no occupy tne whole of the Xabri z barracks
out they did not invite hi.u to share with them, fixe Persian
officers are being housad in the town while the men are quar
tered In a garden on the catskirts.
Toe 0,000 men required uy the huesione i or work in
their Caspian ports* are being recruited in Ardaoi 1 and other
in the eastern part of the pr ovlnoa• Setups have baan
taken to prevent ahy men liable for Persian military service
iroia volunteeri.ig for this work.* In vestsm Azerbaijan roughly
one—hhii of the Par elan force in kez&ieh, say ,X)0 men, moved
nortu with 400 gendarme® on September 30th to restore order
auioa^st. the dsluli around *iaku. Shay got as far as Khoi and
.jy remain* if saaiws, . - . idled a force
of 400 Auras near and threatened to taka- the eraians
lh tha rear if they used force against the Jalali. Col. Mania
md the genaarjierie tiiereupon went to the /Curds and assured
iuwm that they were not «oing to use force against the Jalali.
a hie apparently safieiied Aotas Agha* Meantime, it is all to
the fc,ood that tnc Jal&li have apparently stopped their pillagirg
thereafter it looked as if Katas Agha and his Kurds
might direct their energies against Hessieh* They were reported
a® annoyed that Persian soldiers and gendarmes were carrying
anus in Keseiea whereas Kurds were no longer allowed to do so.
In the labt week of October there were rumours that they were
going to seise keseieh and reverse this state of affairs, but
nothing came of it. X do not for a moment believe that the
kussians would now penalt tue Kurds to L /o so far.
i„i uvi „( ^ontu.) .: .xiob i,ut . General Melnik has been
iinally transferr#a to the front and is now fighting in the
a area, ne is replaaea ml Umx
fhere was a creak in the high standard of Russian
dinolpllns in the ascend iiali of September while tn© old troops
v.ere goin b Oat end the new coming in. The out-going tamed
into cash anything they could lay their hands on. They sold so
many of the doors and windows of the fsrsian barraoks ttujt some
thought the townspeople haa begun lootih the arracks. For
tucxr part, tha incoming troops completely disregarded landlords
rights