File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎458r] (563/1080)

(v) The Herat Consul will also not return. He is said to have been averse to
staying in Herat because the Bolshevik Foreign Minister did not accept his proposals
for higher expenditure for political purposes in Herat.
(vi) Colonel Nur-ud-din Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. who had been staying with the NaibSalar, left
for Russia on the 28th August via Chahildukhteran.
(vii) The Azerbaijan representative left for Kabul via Hazarajat on the 30th
August.
(viii) The Naib-ul-Hukumeh has instructed the Kotwal to take a written gua
rantee from the chiefs of “ mohallas ” that they will report all arrivals and depar
tures in and from their wards to the Kotwal.
(ix) On the 29th August the Naib Salar ordered the City Kotwal to send
bricklayers and masons to the frontier to build the block houses whose erection has
been sanctioned. The Kotwal expressed his inability to do this without the
sanction of the Naib-ul-Hukumeh.
(x) On the 28th August a messenger from Suja-ul-Mulk brought a letter from
his master for the Naib-ul-Hukumeh and asked for a reply. He was dismissed and
was told the reply would be sent through the Officer Commanding Kafir Qala.
(xi) A deputation has come in from Sabzvar to complain against Muhammad
Azam Khan, the Governor of that place. Habibulla Khan has been sent to relieve
Muhammad Azam Khan who is ordered to Herat to explain his conduct.
(xii) A convoy of Government camels with fodder and rations for the khawanin
cavalry at Kafir Qala was under orders to proceed there.
(xiii) On the 29th August the Naib Salar inspected the Kandahar battalion
and the Jadidi Herati and Herat! Regiments who have been under training for
some time. Sixty were promoted to various ranks, including one subadar of the
Kandahar! Battalion to a captaincy. Two captains were dismissed.
(xiv) A Russian who was arrested on the frontier and who was in custody in
Herat has been ordered to be expelled to Persia via the Dahan-i-Zulfikar post.
(xv) On the 1st September a special messenger brought a cover from Kabul)
which distance he had covered in five and a half days. It was for the Afghan
Minister at Tehran and was at once forwarded to Haji Mahmud Herati at Meshed
(the Afghan Agent) with instructions to send it on immediately by special horse
man.
(xvi) During the life of the late Amir, Afghan soldiers enjoyed the privilege
of buying 1| maunds of wheat for one kran. This concession was subsequently
suspended but at the instance of the Naib-ul-Hukumeh has been continued to the
men.
(xvii) Colonel Muhammad Shuaib Khan of Kafir Qala sent a letter to the
Naib-ul-Hukumeh which was delivered on the 2nd September and immediately
sent on to Kabul by special messenger. (It was probably relative to the Persian
situation in Khorasan.)
(xviii) News of the postponement of the Jashan festivities on account of
cholera has reached Herat but too late to admit of the authorities of that city follow
ing suit.
[xix) It is said that the Naib Salar intends to send the Ghazni regiment to
Kara Teppe and Chahildukhteran and another regiment to Bala Murghab.
H. J. WALLIS, Major,
Military Attache.
C4.6SFD