File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎297r] (241/1080)

Intelligence Summary No. 7 for the period ending 28th March 1922.
Trans-caspia.
( 1. A Propaganda School was opened in Kransnovodsk about 1st February under
Gustichev and Hasan Beg Biza Begov who came from Takhta Bazar. Many
pamphlets, printed in Tashkent, have also been sent from this school into Persia.
2. A Mujtehid of Kransnovodsk, Mullah Nurullah, was sentenced in February
to a year’s labour in the Chalakan oil fields for objecting to the vilifying of the priest
ly class at the Propaganda theatre.
Many unemployed have been put to work on the Chalakan oil fields. One
hundred and fifty convicts have been sent to the Qol Miagh salt mines 45 Versts
from Krasnovodsk.
•3. On the 12th March a strong contingent of troops was despatched from Kizil
Arvat to Samarkand. It was proclaimed that travellers eastwards could not be
booked beyond Charjui.
4. The statement made in Intelligence Summary No. 6 that the Persian Consul
had left Askabad for Tashkent was incorrect. He has been seriously ill. He
recently sent his Assistant to Bajgiran to telegraph some reports to Tehran and to
request his own relief. It is said that the ex-Consular Agent, Agha Shams Ali, is
pro-Bolshevik and has been intriguing against Igtidar-ul-Mulk.
5. During February some 70 Persians including Bahais were arrested in Aska
bad on the charge of purchasing gold. The Consul, after telegraphing to Moscow,
effected their release.
6. The requisitioning of camels from the Turkoman was vigorously enforced
throughout February ; every leader was required to contribute 5 animals. These
were railed to Tashkent, whether for food or for transport purposes is not known.
7. A large quantity of stores, besides kerosine oil, has been coming down to
Kushk, presumably in connection with construction projects in Afghanistan. The
famine does not stop this operation.
8. Agha Seyid Azam Khan, the Jamshedi leader, was released from Tashkent
and returned to Takhta Bazar about March 1st. The Jamshedis are not now allow
ed to raid into Afghanistan. Many of them are going there peaceably in search of
food.
9. A general rising of the Turkoman tribes against the Bolsheviks seems im
minent. From Kizil Arvat, Tejen and Merv, repmts are received of Tekke bands
having gone either to join Khan Junaid in Khiva or to the assistance of the Arsali
marching on Kerki.
10. From Termez it is reported that most of the Persian traders have retired
across the border to Mazar-i-Sharif.
The Russians and Armenians with their families have taken refuge in Termez
fort.
The Young Bokharan military detachment at Patekisar is suspect.
11. The Afghan frontier posts have been strengthened. Previously there had
been some selling of rifles by the Termez garrison to Afghan smugglers.
12. M. Dodkin (?), the Russian Consul at Mazar-i-Sharif, has been recalled to
Termez and relieved by another official whose name has not been ascertained.
Khiva.
13. The new Khiva Republic currency notes have been getting into circulation.
14. During February, the famine stricken inhabitants were moving down to
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