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File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [345r] (337/1080)
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SECRET.
No. 52.
INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY FOR THE WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 24th, 1921.
277.
KHOEASAN.
-Events are pursuing a normal course and
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there
is little to
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record.
The military forces in Meshed continue to be reduced, 200 Cossschs and
converted gendarmes having left on the 17th for Teheran. Three hundred
gendarmes with two machine guns marched for Astarabad on the 19th.
Colonel Ali Khan who was commanding the Gendarmerie in Khorasan,
returned to Teheran on the 19th.
All military guards on institutions, public buildings, etc., have been
removed and police substituted where necessary.
The Commandant of the Persian Cossack contingent in Meshed, Hussein
Aqa Mir Panj, was asked in an interview how many troops were in Meshed.
Hisansuer was characteristic of the weakness for hyperbole in the Persian.
“ Three thousand had left”, he said, “and two thousand remain It is
possible there have not been 5,000 troops in Meshed since the last war
between Persia and Afghanistan. The figures would be nearer accuracy at
1,000 and 200. ‘ » , , ' • ■ •
bolsheviks —The staff of the Bolshevik Consulate-General consists at
present of the following:—
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Karim Hakimov . «
Phihpov
Ivanov ...»
Aqa Muhammad Aliov, Kavkazi
Irkha , . . •
Aprelski, Petr . -•
Chubak, Zakharii Kirilish .
Dotsenko, Sava Ignatii
Moskalenko, Sava
Consul General.
“ Commandant.
Secretary.
Dragoman and Intelligence Officer.
Clerk.
Cossack of the Escort.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
The Consulate is situated outside Meshed in the former residence of the
manager of the now defunct Russian Bank. Consular offices will be taken
up inside the city. .... ,
A bid is being made for social successes, it having been put about that
there will be weekly dances at the Russian Consulate.
Aonlieants for passports to Russia are being kept waiting, pending certain
instructions from Tashkent. Persians are the sole exception to this.
All classes of Russian subjects are ealling on their Consul-General. A
denutation of Bokharans waited on him on the 22nd and asked to be taken
under his protection. An old man from among them was chosen as Persian
munshi
A term used in the Middle East, Persia and South Asia to refer to a secretary, assistant or amanuensis. Munshis were employed in the British administration in the Gulf.
for the wife of the Consul-General.
There is every reason to believe that anti-British action, originating in
the Russian Consulate-General, is afoot in Meshed.
The dragoman, Aqa Muhammad Aliov, appears for the present to he
the mouthpiece for this policy for, speaking Persian, he is able to approach
the native P community. He is reported to have said that the British have
scandalized the Soviet Government m Meshed and for 1 "? reason. It there-
torn behoves them all to walk warily for a time until the good intentions of
the Soviet proclaim themselves to the public and meet with their meed of
&P1 Tt has been stated that the agent in Meshed for forwarding Bolshevik
communications to India is Mirza Abdul Hussein Khan, once a clerk m a
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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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