File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎403r] (453/1080)

The principal cause of trouble is the want of means and when without
money man becomes a rogue. I found out lately that the Syr Darya District
Professional Council received a telegram in which it was decided that an in
dependent provision of wood should be made. Yet here again the whole trou
ble is that there is no money.
Working men are unable to start fuel clubs owing to their scanty earn
ings.
Our director does nothing. Perhaps he is working out a project.
It is time to pass from projects to deeds.
Appendix III.
“ Ittifaq-i-Islam” Published at Herat, October 17th, 1921.
{i) An article by request of Abdul Hadi Khan, Afghan Envoy Extra
ordinary at Tashkent, on “The Veiling and Education of Muslim Women ”.
{ii) The radical organization of the Afghanistan Government.
(in) Foreign News. —The Greek Eeverses in Angora. Greek newspapers
confirm the news that the Nationalist Turks have organized a new army of
40,000 men. .
{iv) A military alliance between Turkey, Russia, and Bulgaria.-Ths
paper “ Karonin ” learns that Turkey, Eussia, and Bulgaria are energetically
engaged in organization and preparations to further their intention jointly to
fight a great war in the Balkans and Anatolia Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey. . Eussia will engage Eumania,
and Turkey with Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Thrace, will fight Servia and
Greece.
{v) The Turko-French Treaty. —Dr. Eashad Bek and Bekr Sami Bek who
are in Paris have told a newspaper representative that an agreement with the
Erench Eoreign Minister has been made and that a treaty will soon be signed.
(ri) The impossible optimism of the English regarding the Conquest of
Arabia. —Ibn-i-Saud has been proclaimed King of Najd by the English. He
is an enemy of Sharif Husein. The British wish to benefit by these internal
dissensions and to keep Iraq, Najd, and Hejaz under their infidel influence and
rule.
(yii) A song on the miserable condition of the Muslim world, the result
of its not following the true Islamic principles.
“ Bahar, ” published at Meshed, October 28th, 1921.
The Bokharan-Aeghan Treaty.
During the present year a series of negotiations has been in progress
between the two Islamic Powers of Bokhara and Afghanistan, the result of
which is a defensive treaty, Afghanistan guaranteeing the complete independ
ence of Bokhara.
.SGPI, Delhi— 620(S) E&PD-5* 12-21-12,