File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎430r] (507/1080)

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There has been some recrudescence of trouble between Communists and
Bolsheviks which threatened at one time to become serious “s on the
subject were received from Tashkent and some two hundred of the more
turbulent Communists were disarmed.
Turkmen are in despair for, they say, their flocks have been subjected to
so many requisitions that they have nothing left. The Jamshedis are now
having requisitions levied on their flocks.
Kushk .—Septemper 8th.
According to a map who has lately been employed within the fortress
there is a reserve of rations there and which is calculated to maintain the
garrison for one month. It is not expended, the personnel of the command
being ted with supplies brought in from outside. In this connection a rations
tram arrives every third day from Merv. The troops are frequently driven to
exchange their clothing with Turkmen for bread.
The Bolsheviks at Kushk are always very apprehensive of a combined
13ritish and Afghan attack from the direction of Herat. They permit none but
special individuals to cross the frontier.
. Turkmen are appealed to help grapple with the famine problem. There
is no epidemic.
The Bolshevik Consul from Herat arrived in the first week of September
and went on to Tashkent. The Afghan Consul at Tashkent arrived at Kushk
on the 31st August. He was accompanied by four of his staff and four
Bolshevik trade representatives. The whole party proceeded to Kabul.
Itote. —This move was not reported from Herat.
Takhta Bazar .—September 6th.
The propaganda school consists of 150 pupils and the numbers are main
tained by fresh drafts to replace those who pass out. The school devotes
itself to training men for duties in Afghanistan, Persia and India. Those for
Afghanistan are sent there md Meshed as the Afghan frontier authorities are
very watchful. The Chief of the school is Zampaov.
Khiva .—September 5th.
Although Khiva is supposed now to have an autonomous government the
Bolsheviks have not relaxed their military hold on it. They have detachments
of troops at Khiva, Urganj, Hanqa and Darudkul. The military headquarters
are at Petroalexandrovsk. There is much re-shuffling of garrisons and for this
reason troops are seen on the move every day.
Bolsheviks, not Khivans, are at the head of Government departments.. They
have opened many schools for the education of children. Labour and pro
duction are organized, all employes and operatives being rationed by the State.
Every requirement is met from local resources—sewing, weaving, spinning,
tanning, bootmaking, etc.
Youths who have completed their second year’s course at school have
been mobilized in accordance with the order from Tashkent.
Juneid Khan is still in the desert and no arrangement has been arrived
at between him and the Bolsheviks. Baids on Bolshevik posts are now rare.
The steamer service to Charjui has been resumed.
Katta Kurgan .—September 7th.
The general conditions are the same as described of other places except
that cotton, maize, and tobacco crops are in good condition. Cholera is decreas
ing but the general mortality among famine refugees is appalling. There are
a few doctors hut they are helpless as they possess no medicaments.
The military komissar is Moskovich, the town komissar is Bek Nazarov.
Samarkand .—September 9th.
An oil expressing factory An East India Company trading post. and much stored cotton has been destroyed by
fire recently.