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Meshed Intelligence Diary No. 10, for the period ending 2tth April 1922.
% Krasnovodsk.
1. Garrison 300 infantry ; 100 cavalry, mostly Russian. (April 12th).
2. On the night of the 7th April posters appeared on the walls addressed to the
Communists exhorting them to cease making further disturbances, or the whole of
the Russian people would be against them. Houses were searched the next day and
five arrests made, three of whom were Russians and two Muhammadans. The
suspects were sent towards Askhabad.
Similar posters have also appeared in Askhabad.
3. One ship without passengers arrives weekly from Baku.
Askhabad.
4. Garrison 1,000 infantry ; 500 cavalry, mostly Muhammadans. Part of the
No. 1 Turkestan Regiment is included in the garrison.
5. Confirmed reports state that many troops have lately been sent from
Askhabad to Samarkand to oppose the rebels in that area. Frontier posts ha^
been reduced to provide troops to police Askhabad.
6. April 17th. —Bolsheviks%ave issued an order that all men between the ages
of 17 and 35 must report by the 20th April for enlistment, failing which they will be
shot. Men from 35 to 40 have also been ordered to report.
7. Reference Diary No. 8, paragraph 2. Now reported that Khan Yamut and
other Turkoman chiefs have collected about 2,500 sowars and are proceeding in the
direction of Krasnovodsk.
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Lutfabad.
8. April 14th. —News- writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. reports that Khuda Quli Khan, the Turkoman
leader, was killed at Kouchut on the 10th April.
Kaakha.
9. April 15th. —Garrison 250 infantry; 150 Cavalry. Troops are of the 1st
Uzbeg Regiment, and the remainder of the regiment is at Tejend.
10. Two train loads of troops from Askhabad passed through Kaakha going
eastwards. This confirms report from Askhabad that troops are being sent to
Samarkand.
Tejend.
11. April 14th. —Six hundred troops mostly belonging to the 1st Uzbeg Regi
ment. Detachments for Dushak are supplied from the Tejend garrison.
12. On the 12th April the rebels attacked and plundered Tejend, afterwards
retiring to the desert. Fifty of the garrison troops deserted with their rifles and
fled with the rebels. A Bolshevik train with two machine guns is now patrolling
the railway line from Tejend to Dushak.
Merv.
13. April 13th. —Turkomans are joining the Khivan Yamut rebels.
14. Five hundred Barbaris were driven out of Merv and Bairam Ali, and their
grain commandeered by the Bolsheviks.
15. Refugees are arriving daily from Samara.
Charjui.
16. April 9th.-—2,200 infantry, 200 cavalry. One regiment recognized as the
6th Charniyevo Regiment of the 2nd (Moscow) Red Division ; composition mostly
Muhammadans.
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