File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎369v] (386/1080)

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c n A man who left Samara on the 10th November says the famine
Samaut. A dead bod i es f or food. There is nothing, so far,
refugees are us h revolting information. The Bolsheviks try to meet
heTua fo^by speeches “ whichky put the blame for Russia’s plight
on the world’s capitalists. They impress on all that the destruction of
capitalists is the main objective of Bolshevism. ... ,
The Voloa being frozen, ships have been laid up in winter quarters and
their complements sent to Moscow or Petrograd.
Bokhara -The railway extension Karshi to Termez appears never to
nrosner After the one train recorded as having got _ through to Imam Jafar
Teppe nothing more was heard of traffic on this section and it was concluded
thaUhe extensive floods of the Amu Darya in the summer had washed aivay
portions of the work. The latest information indicates the line presently
serviceable as far as Samsun and that construction has been resumed het-
ween that and Termez. On the other hand much damage is done to the line
periodically by roving hands. , „ . n
The Bolsheviks hope to have everything completed by February 1922.
They hoped the same for February 1921.
The engineer in charge of construction is Stepanov.
/ Sarai Kamar.-K man who was a follower in the Amu Darya Cavalry
/ brigade and who left Sarai Kamar in the first 3rd of November states that
/ large quantities of arms and ammunition were brought to this station by the
I Bolsheviks for transference to the Afghans hut that up to the time he left
the deal had not been carried out.
Eifles in lieu of supplies are given to the Afghans. They are of
different patterns, some being Swedish.
Pood is plentiful and cheap.
Prom Sarai Kamar to Khirmanzai, the limit of Badakhshan, there are
25 Bolshevik military posts of 25 to 30 men each and faced by as many
A fob a,n nosts on the opposite bank.
268.
APGHANISTAN.
Herat .—November ISth to 24th.
Abdul Bazaq, secretary to the Afghan Embassy, Borne, left for Russia
on the 18th accompanied by Jamal Pasha’s messenger and 20 ponies carrying
locked trunks. • t
(ii) Three Enssians, one of whom is a woman, arrived from Russia en
route for Kabul on the 23rd. They were put up in the Bolshevik Consulate.
{Hi) An armourer has been sent to Chahildukhteran to overhaul the
rifles there which are becoming unserviceable and rusty. •
(iv) Colonel Abdul Rahim Khan was summoned by the Naib-ul-Hukumeh
on the 22 nd and told that the news of Lenin’s assassination at Moscow was
current. He should therefore return to his command at Chahildukhteran ana
exercise extreme vigilance. He left Herat accordingly on the 23rd.
(v) Colonel Sher Ahmad Khan had petitioned the authorities at Kabul,
complaining that the Naib Salar wished to dismiss him from the service tor
no fault. An enquiry was ordered the result being that the Colonel ackno *
lodged his petition was an error of judgment. He ask i ecl T , to - b
withdraw it and begged for pardon which was granted him by the JN
Salar.
(vi) The officer commanding the Kandahar battalion reported that t e
Naib Salar had imprisoned his brother, a jemadar, for no fault and bad u
him 2,000 krans. The Naib-ul-Hukumeh informed him the ISaib Sala
empowered to do so and had had good grounds for his action. Alter r
to barracks the Naib Salar beat the complainant and put him
arrest.