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Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [602v] (1207/1237)
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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10. The Governor of Tabriz tells me that the Russian military authorities
here have received orders from the Soviet Embassy in Tehran to release the
200 Persian officers shut up since last August, but that they decline for no given
reason to carry them out. This consulate is continually approached by pathetic
groups of wives and children to obtain the release of these officers, who are-^-v
undoubtedly in bad and unsuitable quarters, are not permitted to receive food
from their families and not now allowed to visit the local baths, since some junior
officers escaped while doing so.
11. The Russian military authorities continue to occupy two of the four
telegraph lines between Tabriz and Tehran, although obviously they can have
little cause these days for doing so. Yet when I flew to Tehran last week they
sent four telegrams about me by the Persian telegraph office instead of by their
own (incidentally sending the cost afterwards to the consulate), and I am reliably
informed that whenever General Novikoff himself wishes to telegraph to Tehran
he uses the non-military wires. It took six days for a wire from this consulate to
reach Moscow in September by military line, and nearly a fortnight for the reply
to get here, marked “ Immediate, re-repeated.”
12. Among the goods at the Tabriz custom-house seized by the Russian
authorities in September as being German property were twenty-six Swedish
radio sets addressed to an Iraqi firm in Tehran. Although I have been trying
continually to obtain the return of these goods since then, and orders have been
given to that effect, no results have been achieved, and the local Russian Trade
Commissioner admits that neither he nor anyone else knows where the wrongly-
seized packages are. Similarly, nothing has been heard of the lorry seized from
a British subject by the Red Army in August last.
I have, &c.
F. A. G COOK.
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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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- Title
- Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’
- Pages
- 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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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