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Samarkand.
11. The Headquarters of the 1st Turkestan Division (area from Chernyaevo
to Krasnovodsk) are at Samarkand in the suburb of Aslabad.
The Chernyaevo armoured train returned from Ferghana on February lith,
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12. The Headquarters of the 2nd Turkestan Division are at Kokand.
Andijan was occupied by the Bolsheviks on 31st January. 150 prisoners
including a leader named Khal Khoja were sent to Kokand, where three were execut
ed and the rest imprisoned. The Basmachis under Kur Sher Mahomed are at 0|j
This leader has sent a reinforcement of 2,060 men through Karatagin to Hisar.
The Bolsheviks have proclaimed by wide-cast notices dropped from aeroplanes
that they will give Farghana amnesty and home rule—with a Besident in eacl
town—as soon as the Basmachis have submitted,
It is believed that the Basmachis will resume vigorous fighting when
warm weather comes.
Recruits enlisted in Khojent and Kokand are sent to Tashkent for training,
A steam flour mill and a leather factory An East India Company trading post. are working at Kokand.
Three Deputies from Kokand left for Moscow on 25th January.
Tashkent.
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13. A glass factory An East India Company trading post. was started in January.
A train load of destitutes from Samara arrives every day.
The Afghan Consul left on January 24th. The Consul from Bokhara replaces
The Governor of Tashkent, Zeniov, left for Moscow on January 27th.
A train load of Persian rice and wheat reached Tashkent on February 1st.
It was rumoured in Tashkent that the ex-Amir would return to Bokhara, with
the help of the Amir of Afghanistan. On the Tashkent-Chernyaevo Railway many
famine refugees have been put to work. Owing to the short-age of timber, only
every fourth sleeper is being renewed.
14. A tabulated statement of the disposition of troops in the Province from
information given by casuals (very unreliable and incomplete, no doubt) is attached
(Appendix 1).
15. Appendix 2 gives the names of officials mentioned by casuals.
Economic.
16. The authorities have everywhere proclaimed that from the 10th March a
new regime will be instituted. Private trading will be unrestricted. Cultivators
will only be assessed with one-tenth of their produce as land revenue. The public
are sceptical. The price of food has not yet fallen to the rates existing before the
reorganization of the paper currency.
Meshed,
1st March 1922.
F. B. PRIDEAUX, Lieutenant-Colonel,
for Military Attach'
Distribution :—
The Chief of the General Staff, Delhi.
Foreign and Political Department, Delhi.
His Britannic Majesty’s Consul General, Khorasan.
His Britannic Majesty’s Consul, Sistan.
British Military Attache, Tehran.
Intelligence Bureau, Peshawar.
Intelligence Bureau, Quetta.
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