File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎481v] (610/1080)

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Russian Sarakhs and Frontier Posts—No change.
Kushk. July iM.—Garrison reported to be 1,500, majority Russians.
Five hundred of these are mounted and belong to the 1st Turkestan Cavalry.
Other units are 2nd Moscow and 3rd Ussuriski (?) Regiments. Guns lb.
Machine gun with regiments, 11. A projector.
Takhta Bazar, July iM.—1,500. Qara Teppe, 30 unit identified, 8th
Samara.
Termez. July 22nd. — Garrison is now reported to consist of 2,000 Bolshevik
troops, 1,000 Young Bokharans, and about 1,500 reservists. Other details not
presently available.
Karsht. July 30th. —Garrison 2,000, majority Muslims. The Young Bokhara
unit is the 5th, six guns, 12 machine guns, an armoured car, an aeroplane, a wire
less stations, a projector. Units identified, 9th Orenburg under Vassiliev and
18th Kazan. Five mountain guns on mules.
Katta Kurgan. July 31st. — Garrison 500, majority Muslims. Unit, 9th,
Semiriechia Regiment, of which 100 are mounted. Three guns, four machine guns,
two armoured cars belonging to the airpark. Four aeroplanes. An electric
projector on a railway truck.
Samarkand. July 26th, 1921. — Garrison 1,500, majority Muslims. Gun six,
machine guns 12. Two guns mounted in the fort. Two aeroplanes. Ten lorries
eight light cars. Wireless station
Kokand. July 26th. —Garrison 4,500, consisting of four regiments, three
squadrons, and two batteries, or 2nd Samara, 6th Orenburg, 7th Aral, and 9th
Skobelev Regiments. One squadron each of 3rd Popov’s and 8th Kazan Cavalry,
and the 12th Turkoman Mounted Detachment, 3rd Orenburg Cossack and 6th
Siberian Batteries.
TweUe guns, 16 machine guns, two armoured cars, three lorries, three aero
planes, a wireless station, an electric projector on a railway truck.
Jizak. July 36th. —Garrison 500, majority Muslims. Unit 4th Tashkent
Regiment, of which 100 are mounted. Three guns, four machine guns, two staff
cars fitted to carry one machine gun each. A wireless station. One aeroplane for
communication with Samarkand.
Samarkand. (Additional) Units, 3rd Skobelev and 5th Samara Regiment.
4th Orenburg Cossack battery. Six guns, eight machine guns, one armoured
car. A wireless station. Two lorries. One projector.
195.— Afghanistan.
Herat. July 2sth to August 4th. — {i) On July 29th the Bolshevik Consul-
designate at Kandahar wrote to the Naib-ul-Hukumeh to ask for a pass to proceed
to Kushk. He wished to send in a wireless message to Kabul inquiring about his
future movements. The Naib-ul-Hukumeh replied he had no objection.
{ii) . The Bolshevik Consul at Herat had a boy called Yussaf in his employ.
He had immoral relations with this boy whose mother was a washerwoman at the
Consulate. On the night of the 30th July three Herat! servants assaulted this boy
with immoral motives. The boy raised a cry and the incident was reported to the
Naib-ul-Hukumeh by the guard at the Consulate. The former asked the Consul
to hand over the boy and the three servants to him. The Consul complied in the
case of one servant and the boy, both of whom the Naib-ul-Hukumeh had flogged
and put in chains.
The Naib ul-Hukumeh has demanded the immediate surrender of the other
two servants and, in case delay in complying with his wishes, he intended to lay
the case before the authorities.
{iii) The Naib-ul-Hukumeh has arrested two men formely employed at the
Consulate, but later dismissed, because they acceped Bolshevik service without his
sanction.