File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎474r] (595/1080)

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' Detachments of the garrison are also situated at Kzil Ajaq, Samsonov Railway
Station, Akchu, and Shibarghan Road.
Termez— 16th July. —Troops given as 2,500 which includes 1,000 cavalry.
Confirmation of this reduction is awaited.
Kagan— A report, dated 10th July, enumerates the garrison at 3,500 and
identifies the units present as 1st Turkestan Cavalry ; Commander Indre Petrujov.’
6th Vostqchni Molodoe Bukharski Regiment under Safanov ; 5th Kazan Regi
ment; 7-inch guns 2 ; 4-inch guns 4 ; Armoured cars loaded on trucks 4 ; Lorries
10 (?); Light cars 5 ; Aeroplanes, 4.
Another report dated a week later reduces the garrison to the 56th Orenburg
Regiment. This account may be rejected.
Ura Tiure— 24th July. —Garrison 600, majority Muslims. Two hundred
of this number are mounted. Unit 2nd Tashkent Regiment 3 guns, 4 machine
guns, 1 armoured car, 1 lorry, 1 searchlight. The detachment is under Samar
kand.
Badam— 17th July. —The garrison is given as 10,000 rebel troops, an evident
exaggeration.
Tashkent. — 22nd July. —Three thousand regular troops, majority Russians.
Units 1st, 2nd, 6th, and 7th Samara Regiments; 2nd and 4th squadrons of (?)
Aral Cavalry. Guns seen 6. Armoured cars, 2. Lorries, 5. two armoured
engines recently sent towards Kokand.
Ak Masjid — loth July. —Two thousand troops, majority Russians, and
including 1,000 cavalry ; 6 guns ; 15 machine guns ; 3 aeroplanes ; 3 armoured cars ;
6 light cars ; 1 lorry. An armoured train occasionally comes and goes.
Afghanistan. *
191. Herat — 22nd to 28th July. —Amajoranda kotdafadarof the Kandahar
battalion were brought up before the Naib Salar on a charge of making a false
entry in the official records. The circumstances of the case were that four months
ago two sepoys Term used in English to refer to an Indian infantryman. Carries some derogatory connotations as sometimes used as a means of othering and emphasising race, colour, origins, or rank. died and their funeral expenses were charged to Government.
Their names were not removed from the list of effectives and their pay continued
to be drawn. Both the accused were put in chains and discharged from the service,
pending confirmation by the Kabul authorities. In addition, the major is to pro
vide two substitutes and pay a fine of Rs. 1,000 and the kot dafadar A Non-Commissioned Officer in the Indian Cavalry. one substitute
and pay Rs. 500. The defence was that the accused were acting under the instruc
tions of the ‘colonel of the battalion to whom the money used to be sent, a plea
which was upheld by the orderly who conveyed the money from time to time.
The Naib Salar sent for the colonel and beat him so unmercifully that he became
unconscious and had to be carried to his quarters. He was sentenced to pay a fine
of Rs. 1,000, to find four substitutes and to be dismissed from the service
(ii) A company of the Khaki battalion has been sent for musketry practice
with muzzle loading guns. The exercise will last one week when the remaining
companies will be put through iu rotation. The officers and senior non-commis
sioned officers of the cavalry are ordered to practise tent-pegging and subsequently
to train their men in the same.
(in) The pay, of regular troops was disbursed on the 25th in presence of the
Naib Salar.
(iv) The orderlies of the Naib-ul-Hukuma who had been returned to regi
mental duty have been re-allotted to him.
(v) The split between the Naib-ul-Hukuma and Naib Salar is becoming wider
every day. They had not met each other for a fortnight.
(vi) The Naib Salar has realized about Rs. 250 in fines from those soldiers who
used the now obsolete designations of officers in place of the new nomenclature.
(vii) On the 26th Colonel Abdul Rahim Khan sent in a report that the party
accompanying his despatch consisted of Nawasa Khan Jamhedi and six elder
representing fifty families who had emigrated from Turkestan to Afghanistan.
The Naib-ul-Hukuma bestowed a khilaat of the highest order on Nawasa Khan