File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎362r] (371/1080)

departed companions in misery. On the other hand, the change in conditions
resultant on Lenin’s apostacy from extreme Communism is manifest in ac
counts of more considerate treatment by the Bolsheviks of theii populace, of
the recognition of the right to own property, of the return of confiscated pro
perty, of the liberty to indulge in petty trade, etc. These concessions are
entirely distrusted as yet by the people who do not re-engage in trade, partly
from fear of requisition parties, and partly from an absence of the wherewithal
to trade.
AFGHANISTAN.
272 .
Herat .—November 25th to December 1st.
The three Russians, including one woman, whose arrival was noted in In
telligence Summary 49, Herat Report, prove to be a general officer, his wife,
and an orderly. They were provided with two saddle horses and a palanquin
for which the Russian Consul-General paid Rs* 240 hire and left for Kabul on
the 26th. The British Agent reports the officer was dismissed from the army
(Red ?) a year ago and is in possession of a general’s uniform. He is going to
Kabul in the hope of getting employment under the Afghan Government and
with the recommendation of the Bolshevik Minister there.
{ii) The three men from Jalalabad reported in Intelligence Summary 47,
page 19, paragraph {cciii), had an interview with the Russian Consul-General
and were sent with an escort to Sabzewar. They will be escorted similarly to
Kandahar and Kabul. They left about the 26th.
{in') The Bolshevik Consul-General has suggested that now the treaty
between the two countries has been ratified Afghan traders might be allowed
to export to Russia. He was told the matter would be preferred.
{iv) The Bolshevik Consul-General wishes to hire aRuilding in the town
for a hospital and dispensary. He asks that an Afghan guard may be dispensed
with at the door of this future hospital as patients would be afraid to attend.
The Naib-ul-Hukumeh has replied he is willing to set side a room in the
Afghan Government hospital where the Bolshevik doctor can function. It is
believed this arrangement will not be acceptable to the Consul-General as he
wishes to get in touch with the people in a separate building.
(«) A firman A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’). from Kabul sanctions the export of Herat wheat to Kanda
har Government stocks were consequently made available for purchase.
{vi) The Kandahari battalion has been ordered to move to Maimana in
relief and to take six boxes S. A. A. with it.
{vii) The death of Brigadier Abdul Rauf Khan at Jalalabad is reported.
Brigadier Atta Muhammad Khan has been appointed to his vacancy from
Herat.
{viii) Muhammad Azam Khan, Colonel of the 9th Herati Battalion, who
has been in arrest for three years on a charge of being an accomplice of
Brigadier Shapur Khan, has been released by order from Kabul and summoned
to proceed there from Herat.
{ix) It is reported that Saleh Muhammad Khan, Sipah Salar, who was,
cashiered and imprisoned, has been pardoned by the Amir.
H. J. WALLIS, Major,
Military Attache.
The 11th December 1921.
Distribution —
The Chief of the General Staff, Delhi.
Foreign and Political Department, Delhi.
His Majesty’s Minister, Tehran.
His Britannic Majesty’s Consul-General, Khorasam
His Britannic Majesty’s Consul, Sistan.
Intelligence Bureau, Peshawar.
Intelligence Bureau, Quetta*