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Meshed Intelligence Diary No. 25 for the period ending the 7th August 1922.
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1. Reference Diary No. 24, paragraph 1. The details of the force which left
Meshed for Sarakhs on the 31st July are as follows
221 Infantry.
83 Cavalry.
17 Machine gunners.
2 Maxim guns.
Forty Infantry and 10 Cavalry will leave for Daragaz on the 8th instant.
2. Naib Abbas, a Persian officer, formerly in the Gendarmerie, has been /
deprived of his rank, and is being court-martialled for preaching Bolshevism /
amongst the soldiers in Meshed. His brother officers informed against him. J--'
Afghanistan.
3. Abdul Baqi Khan has been ordered to return to Kabul, and will proceed
via Duzdap. Haji Mahmud Herati, an Afghan trader will officiate as Afghan
Consul pending the arrival of a successor to Abdul Baqi Khan.
Transcaspia.
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4. Two Turkoman agents sent from Sarakhs have been arrested by the Russians
one at Dushak and the other at Tejend. It is not known on what charge they were
arrested, but probably it was that they had not reported for registration and enlist
ment.
5. Robberies are becoming frequent from Kaakha and Askhabad. Caravans
are attacked, and grain is stolen from the cultivators. The robbers are said to be
Turkomans, but on the other hand the victims in many cases are also Turkomans.
6. The Turkomans are being badly treated by the Governor and Russians
in Askhabad. So are endeavouring to cross into Persia.
7. KrasnovodsJc, 18th July. —Reference Diary No. 23, paragraph 8. A number
of Mohamedans were arrested in connection with the murder of Ali Zada, and the
matter was reported to Moscow. Ali Zada was apparently trying to disperse
a religious meeting in the Mosque when he was murdered. Moscow has issued
orders that the persons under arrest should be released.
8. Krasnovodsk, 18th July. —Yamuts attacked the Russian post recently estab
lished at Barnakh on the Khiva Road, inflicting many casualties. A detachment
of Cavalry and Infantry with machine guns has been sent from Krasnovodsk to
reestablish the post.
9. Batches of 200—300 troops are continually arriving from Baku and
Astrakhan and are sent east by train.
10. Lutfabad, 28th July. —One hundred and fifty Kazan Tartars (? recruits)
passed going to Bokhara. They were unarmed and badly clothed.
11. Persian Sarakhs, 3rd August. —The Russians have arrested a number of
Turkoman elders in Russian Sarakhs, charging them with having supplied Haji
iQuli with supplies. All Turkomans horses are being commandeered by the Rus
sians.
12. A new Governor replaced the old one (gone to Tashkent) at Russian
Sarakhs on the 30th July. The new Governor has issued orders that persons
seen trying to cross the frontier, either to or from Persia, are to be shot at sight by
the frontier guards,
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