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File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [397r] (441/1080)
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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Eussian mails destinated to the Eussian Legation at Tehran are now
forwarded by special messenger, but the reasons for this precaution are not
known.
The Governor-General is suffering from straitened resources. The greater
s portion of the province belongs to Mehdi Shah
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
moreover, Astarabad
is the only town in Persia w hich is not taxed. Hence its Governors-General
cannot take a single dinar from it. On the other hand, Bandargaz and its
surrounding villages have not this privilege of exemption from benevolences.
It is therefore called upon to maintain the Governor-General during the wEole
period of office. Of the shifts this incumbent has recourse to to maintain his
position and to put by a little for the future, consider the following : Some
time back a man was murdered in the Governor-General's territory and he
sent a commission to investigate the crime. The commission stayed away six
months and returned with 250
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
. The correspondent writes that the
new Governor-General has not overlooked this possible source of income and
has sent another commission to collect more blood dues on account of the same
murder. Si non vero, etc.
The export of cereals and provisions, etc., to Eussia in exchange for sugar*
mineral oil, glass and china ware, is resulting in a rise in price of all food
commodities.
This correspondent makes no mention of the bombardment of Baku
reported in a London telegram of the 3rd October. It was evidently the
events in the Azerbaijan capital which caused the western movement of troops
reported in this office circular telegram. M. D. 05126 of 2nd October.
Bujnurd. —22nd October.
The
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Mu’aziz of Bujnurd has left for Quchan but does not know if
the Tehran Government wishes him to continue his journey to Meshed. He
has expressed a wish to meet a British officer in Quchan if he is unable to go
to Meshed.
The position of the Persian Turkmen in the Gumbat-i-Qabus area
continues to be unsatisfactory and the correspondent fears the Bolsheviks will
find means to resume their former interests there by “ peaceful methods
At the beginning of the present month the Kajuki tribe had a battle with
the Ak Ata Bai wdiich resulted in six men being killed on the former and ten
on the latter side. On this occasion the Jafar Bai did not participate as they
feared the Bolsheviks would support the Ak Ata Bai.
QucJian. —20th and 25th October.
A considerable influx of Bolshevik traders and commercial agents is
expected in the near future for an exploitation of the markets of Persia.
Some local opinion considers these people are not coming for trade but for
political purposes. The truth probably lies between the two, trade giving at
once the cloak and the pretext for promoting propaganda.
An arrival from Askhabad relates that a mass meeting was held in that
town when a speaker stated that if the Persian Government refused to allow
their wheat they would be forced to go and fetch it. If the supply is resumed
they w r ould remain within their own frontiers.
Taj Muhammad Khan, one of the Khawanin who assisted in the defeat of
Muhammad Taqi Khan, has been appointed Governor of Darregaz and left
for that sub-province on the 25th, taking his own force of 150 sowars with
him.
The situation in Quchan is described as being very bad owing to quarrels
among the khawanin. Control passed from Muhammad Ibrahim Khan
Qaramanlu to Farajulla Khan and from him to Sultan Bajgiri. A brother of
the
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Mu’aziz, lately in Tehran, is stated to be the latest nominee.
House-breaking has become frequent in the town and no peaceable citizen
I dares to be out of doors after dark for fear of molestation by Kurd sowars.
! Bolshevik agents are described as being very active and to be in constant
communication with Askhabad.
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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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