File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎384v] (416/1080)

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to secure the liberation of India by means of self-determination, self-organi
zation, and self-enrichment. The leader of the war party —or whatever
they call the party of Indian Bolsheviks—declares that the boycott is a policy
particularly favouring the English and one well calculated to weaken the
activity of and to introduce discord among all political parties. Moreover,
this policy of boycott has served, as it were, as a pretext for the English
rPYVAmmftnt. to have recourse to repressive measures against the Indian
population.
According to the calculations of the abovementioned individual the
Bolsheviks have been obliged to sanction the following approximate sums
for the purposes of agitation in India :
(i) £50,000 for agitation among the people by means of the creation
of Soviets. Fifty-two Soviets were created by this man in
various towns and small centres in the course of a tour in
Northern India.
(ii) £200,000 for agitation among the troops. According to the
statement of this man this agitation is progressing success
fully. As a result of this where the Indians formerly inclined
to the English they now hate them and try to show their
hatred in deeds.
(Hi) £500,000 for the organization of propaganda schools under the
name of the National University.
The money indicated above was furnished via America.
The Indian revolutionary leader referred to in the note states he enjoys
the complete confidence of the English.
(No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of these statements
regarding Indian revolutionary activities).
260. AFGHANISTAN.
Herat.-— November 4th to 10th.
i. Contrary to the wishes of the Naib-ul-Hukumeh, the Bolshevik
Consul has elected to stay in the Bagh-i-Shah and not to move into the town.
The former has reported the matter to Kabul for further orders.
ii. The Bolshevik Consul visited the newly founded Sharafat school
on the 5th and took a lot of sweets with him for distribution to the children.
He asked the schoolmaster to give the boys a holiday that day which was
done. He stated to the former that the Bolsheviks were confident of the
Afghans’ friendship towards, themselves because the British Mission at
Kabul had returned to India unsuccessful. He observed, moreover, that
because of the staunch friendship existing between the Afghans ana
Bolsheviks the British Agent should be expelled. The schoolmaster ex
pressed his ignorance of such matters as he was a new arrival in the station.
The Bolshevik Consul promised to re-visit the school and to have tea
there. After his departure the schoolmaster told his friends that the story
of the withdrawal of the Mission was incorrect.
iii. The Bolshevik Consul invited the Naib-ul-Hukumeh, the Naib
Salar, and other officials (50 in all) to lunch at the Consulate to celebrate
the fourth anniversary of the establishment of the Soviet Republic. Ike
Consul gave a speech in the course of which he expatiated on the help tna
the Soviet Republic had extended to the working classes and to the smaller
states, in which he included Bokhara, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and
Afghanistan—all of which had procured their independence through tne
instrumentality of the Soviet Republic. On the conclusion of this speecn
the principal of the Sharafat school got up and contradicted some of tne
assertions of the Consul. He said that Afghanistan did not owe her in
dependence to the Soviet for she had that before the Soviet came mm
existence. On the contrary, it was the Afghans who helped the Soviet