File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎426r] (499/1080)

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The restrictions placed upon the acquisition of information, the confis
cation of documentary matter, reports, and telegrams, the intimidation and
arrest of agents, have naturally reacted upon the activities of this office,
resulting in a meagreness of output.
Bandargaz.—September 1st
Christoforo, who was an agent in the Russian Consulate here before
the Revolution, has gone to Teheran as a translator in the Russian Legation.
Neither the Governor General nor the Russian Consul has arrived.
Bujnurd.—September 13th.
The cavalry which was sent to Kizil Arvat has moved to Qara Qala.
There are there now some 500 with 90 mules loaded with every kind of am
munition. 250 have been sent via Khojam Qala, along the old road used by
Skobelev’s expedition, to Chikishlyar.
A party of eight men has been sent along the Atrek to inspect frontier
posts, commencing from Chat.
Although all talk of a restoration of former frontier posts and a collec
tion of food products, the Turkmen affirm most positively that the new for
mation of a Tekken regiment (see last week’s Summary) under the command
of Qurban Quli Quli Niazov has for an object the occupation of Gumbat-i-
Qabus In fact this officer w T as stationed there before the war and in com
mand of a sotnia. According to Sir Araz 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. , on the other hand, the
chances of forming a Tekken regiment are extremely remote as the Tekke
Turkmen trust neither the officei selected for raising it nor the Bolsheviks
who require it. As inducements for joining the command Qurban Quli
is offering freedom from taxes and the inviolability of property.
Bajgiran.—Reports from this centre have been confiscated
Quchan.—September 11th and 15th. One report confiscated.
Kurd petty traders who have been to Askhabad have returned with
gold coin which has been paid them for their commodities. Bread there,
they say, is getting more and more scarce, costing now 1,700 roubles a pound.
Cultivators are concealing grain underground, convinced that worse con
ditions have yet to come. Turkmen are not now bringing grain into Askha
bad for sale.
A copy of the Armenian paper “ Aiq ” received in Quchan says that
Anwar Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. is in Baku and is busy over propaganda. He has joined the
Azerbaijan army. Nuri Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. is now Governor of Qaras.
The member of the Russian Food Purchasing Committee recently arriv
ed from Askhabad by name Khashab is not really in Persia for commercial
but for political reasons. He is an Arab brought up in Russia and speaks
Arabic, Persian, French, and Russian. His brother is in Moscow employ
ed in political work. When in Quchan as an agent of the Russian Bank
he took about 12,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. from well-to-do people by methods of extortion
and intimidation.
Lutfabad.—September 13th.
Accounts brought in from Askhabad testify to the destitution in that
city. Bolshevik soldiers are begging in the streets and if offered money
refuse it, demanding food. Nevertheless the Bolshevik authorities are
every day asking for recruits for their army. It is generally believed that
within a very short time Bolshevik troops will throw down their arms and
other employes refuse to work.
From the 6th to the 12th September 160 troops went east and none west.
In that time there were 5 passenger trains east and 9 goods with 7 passenger
trains west and 7 goods.
Archangan.—September 9th
Two Kainis who have arrived from Bokhara state that the Amir of
Bokhara has some troops near the Afghan frontier and opposite Patte
Kesar.