File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎451r] (549/1080)

! 1 mLi e n L 5 lirntdo ^ 1 aildsabotageis sus P ected b 7 the Eolsheviks who have
imprisoned many of the operatives.
thp •Rn 1 i!i 1 ^w ty - 0 £.- gettillg a maximum yield from the land has compelled
Isheviksto jettison some of their Communistic fallacies. They are trying
to co ax b ^k t0 their former ayoeation the peasant farmer whom^a rutffi
lan^t ° n ^ as driTe 1 a . 1 from the soil. With this in view they are restoring
nd and houses to erstwhile owners and at the same time are makin^ allot-
noTse^the^bie^f 1 t0 ^ ’f dleSS - The Cultivator £or his P art does
collector cf. 3 * of . ra f“f cr0 P? and cattle for the benefit of some foraying
his family nr t? 1 " 16 m h lnd , a “ d 18 often 80 destitute that he feeds himself'and
nrodfme Am h f C0 ^ 1SSuedhimforseed and his cattle on that which is to
ate on the nlm*! oottonc . r0 P-. In vain does the agitator and the orator expati-
Persia can .fot’ Ch 18 to Come from 1>ersia Their Tictims kn ° w that
ic if ^ 1 a starviD g country of ten times its own population. Neither
peoubdur^ 0 n ^ t0 ^ e told that the time is 0fle of test for the Russian
remainino- uSitld^ Sh ° U d Sh ° W fcbeir ca l )acit y for endurance and for
^ wns ^ be . ^limber of famine refugees is said to have
m d -p 18 0 P timisti oally ascribed to these poor wretches having
moved further on in search of sustenance. The true explanation is to be
und m the fact that numbers perish every day. The hospitals are powerless
o any mg for the sick and debilitated and it is said that the wounded
brought in to Tashkent hospitals from fights with Sher Muhammad Kor’s men
whei^ n ° °^ ber l rea f men f f° r their injuries except periodic cleansing with.
239 - AFGHANISTAN.
Herat .—September 29th to October 6th.
Colonel Abdul Hamid Khan who was in charge of Jamal Pasha’s sump
tuary arrangements has accompanied him to Russia while three Ottoman
Turks who were with him as orderlies have returned to Herat. They will
join Reza Beg in Kabul.
(ii) The Bolshevik Consulate Secretary who now calls himself Consul has
given offence to the Naib-ul-Hukumeh by not attending on a day set aside
by the latter for an interview. He kept the latter waiting on the appointed
day and did not turn up till the day following.
(m) Over eight lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees of rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. have been sent from the Herat Treasury to
Kabul.
(iv) Some correspondence is going on between Yulin, an officer in Kushk,
and Colonel Abdul Rahim Khan, Officer Commanding Chahildukhteran, on the
subject of a return of Bolshevik stolen property lifted by raiders and conveyed
to Afghanistan. Two Bolshevik soldiers with rifles strayed across the frontier
and have not been heard of since. Their return is asked for.
(«?) The Naib Salar has purchased 4,000 water bottles from a Kandahar
merchant. He has employed tailors to make drill covers and newar slings
for the same. These will be kept in store and issued when required. Swords
and scabbards for the newly enlisted cavalrymen have been ordered.
{vi) The Naib Salar sent for all the artillery horses from Ghorian, Oba*
and Shaftan as he wished to inspect them. He has arranged them according
to colour.
{vii) Shuja-ul-Mulk Hazara with his sons and Saiad Haidar Barbari
with his horsemen are still in Afghanistan awaiting a reply to their petition
to Kabul. The former presented the Naib-ul-Hukumeh with thirty mares
and several carpets and asked for a State loan of 10,000 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. which was
refused without authority from Kabul sanctioning it.
{viii) Thirty-five Jamshedi families have sought permission to return to
Afghanistan. The Naib-ul-Hukumeh has sanctioned the move and gave the
deputation of six elders a khilaat apiece.