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File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [267r] (181/1080)
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Meshed Intelligence Diary No. 17 for the period ending 12th June 1922.
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1. Bolsheviks are concentrating large forces on the Afghan frontier through
Kushk and Takhta Bazar. Agent at Lutfabad reports 5,250 troops (Russians,
Armenians and Tartars) passed that place from the 1st to 6th June. Borne of the
troops were of the 1st and 4th Caucasian and the 5th Tartar Divisions, and came wa
Krasnovodsk. Seventeen guns were counted, and there were machine guns, ammuni
tion, 4 armoured cars, 1 aeroplane and many carts. (A T ote—The number of troops
reported as having passed Lutfabad since the 15th May now exceeds 15,000.)
2. Troops are also arriving at Merv from Tashkent, and are being sent to Kushk
and Takhta Bazar. Detachments of 500 each were sent to Dushak and Tejend.
3. Reference Diary No. 14, paragraph 3 {a). Haji Quli with 300 men, some of
whom are Afghans, have again crossed the frontier and are at present near Bairam
Ali. They are buying horses and rifles. A report from Kaakha stated that this
party attacked isolated Bolshevik posts between Kushk and Takhta Bazar,
and in one place captured 22 men and 1 gun.
4. Turkomans are reaping the harvest and are paying one-tenth to the Bol
sheviks as tax. {Vide Diary No. 16, paragraph 5).
5. lAitfabad — June is*.—Refugees from Central Russia are being sent to the
-Caucasus rid Krasnovodsk.
Khiva.
6. Junaid Khan has his centre near Kungrad, and the Yamuts occupy Kunya
TJrgench. Turkomans from Merv, Askhabad and Kizil Arbat Districts have
ioined the Yamuts, who are said to number over 20,000. Junaid Khan intends
to occupy Petro Alexandrovsk, and then the whole of the Khivan Province, when
he will send his men to assist the rebels in Bokhara.
7. A band of 5,000 Bokharan rebels are near Uch Kuduk and in communica
tion with the Yamut Chief. They operate in the Petro Alexandrovsk and Bokha
ran areas.
8. Bolshevik supplies are scarce in Khiva. The town has been entrenched and
wired.
Bokhara.
9. Troops are passing Kagan daily from Tashkent for Karshi, Kushk and
Takhta Bazar.
10. Muhi-ud-din Maqsum {vide Diary No. 12, paragraph 9) who commanded
the rebels between Samarkand and Shahr-i-Sabz, objected to Enver
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
placing
Ottoman Turks in command of rebels, and threatened to go over to the Bolsheviks.
Enver
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
heard of this and ordered his arrest. Muhi-ud-din Maqsum escaped
and surrendered himself to the Bolshevik on the 5th May, who after keeping him
in Samarkand until 10th May, sent him to Tashkent promising that he would be
given an amnesty. Tashkent ordered that he should be punished, and returned
him to Samarkand for trial by Military Court. Muhi-ud-din effected his escape
from prison whilst awaiting trial, but was fired on, wounded and eventually recap
tured. He has now been sent to Bokhara.
11. Enver
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
and officers of the Ex-Amir are propaganding Bokharan
villages and inciting the inhabitants to fight a Holy War against the Bolsheviks.
Enver
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
is said to have gone to the Afghan frontier near Termez.
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The item consists of Part 1 of the subject file 1341/1921: 'Meshed Consular & Intelligence Diaries (1921-1922)'.
It contains numbered periodical (mainly weekly) reports relating to Persia [Iran], initially each called an 'Intelligence Summary' and later called a 'Meshed Intelligence Diary'. The reports cover the period of the week ending 1 January 1921 to the period ending 1 January 1923. They are initially issued by the British Military Mission, Meshed [Mashhad, also known as Mashad or Meshad], and later by the Military Attaché, Meshed. The intelligence summaries, and diaries, relate to political, foreign, military and diplomatic affairs in the locality and the neighbouring regions and are variously arranged under (chiefly) the following headings: 'Khorasan and North-East Persia'; 'Herat and Afghanistan'; 'Russian Turkistan'; 'Khorasan'; 'Cis-Frontier'; 'Trans-Frontier'; 'Afghanistan'; 'Bolshevik Garrisons'; 'Local'; 'Transcaspia'; 'Bokhara'; 'Tashkent'; 'Central Russia'; 'Khiva'; 'Ferghana'; 'General'; and 'Samarkand'. The summaries often include appendices which are usually extracts of local and national newspapers published in the regions and countries of interest, including Nabat , Rosta , Izvestia , Ittifaq-i-Islam , Bednota, Prolitarii , Sharq-i-Iran, and Pravda . Other appendices contain details of Bolshevik Garrisons in the region.
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