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File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [380r] (407/1080)
The record is made up of 1 item (540 folios). It was created in Jan 1921-Jan 1923. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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needed Turkish instructors and to this end the Afghan Government has
entered into negotiations with Kemal
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
. In addition, Nadir Khan
has decided to adopt a whole series of energetic measures, of which the most
important appear to be the following :
The Afghan army must be guaranteed a supply of modern rifles and
arms factories. Special attention must be paid to the outturn of shell, cart
ridges, and smokeless propellants, hand grenades, flame throwers, and so on d
Poison gases and masks must be made and the best factories for manufactur
ing machine guns instituted.
Great significance attaches to the manufacture of intrenching tools and
the construction of entrenched works. Schools of instruction for training
officers in the use of machine gun and rifle fire will be instituted in a series
of towns, also courses in topography. It has been proposed to start a
Higher War School in Kabul from which command cadres would be turned
out, serving as the foundations of a General Staff. It is proposed to devote
especial attention to the creation of an aviation detachment for which all
hopes are centred on the Turkish Government.
This catalogue of necessary reforms sets forth with sufficient clarity all
that the Afghan army proposes for itself. It is an interesting question to
answer, namely, what means does Afghanistan propose to call into existence
to carry out this scheme of reorganization which embraces the most necessary
albeit most costly, provision of various factories ? Where are to be found the
necessary personnel for the above? Where is the War Staff to be recruited
which would have the ability to take up the highest military science, when,
as remarked above, the education of the military as much as of the civil
population stands at the lowest possible level? , Aet one needs to be a pro
phet to foretell the end of the period necessary to reorganise the existing
army. Similarly, just as military matters in Afghanistan are hopeless^^ so
are all other branches of State direction^
SGPI Delhi—L 732(8) F&PD-6-1-22-12
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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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