File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎493r] (633/1080)

^Correct transliteration, Qahqaha. Kaakhka is the Russian form.
of the Young Bokharan movement which put the Bolsheviks into Bokhara so has
not very much to complain about).
A letter from Anwar Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. written at Moscow reached Ali Reza Effendi at (l
Bokhara about the end of July. In it the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. told his correspondent he would
soon be with him. The narrator stated he saw the letter himself.
199.—Bolshevik Garkisons.
Groznl— July —Garrison was estimated at 5,000 and belonged to the
11th Red Ai my. Ten guns were seen, four of which were of very large size. There
is an armoured tram m the station consisting of a locomotive and five wagons With
an armament of two guns. Six aeroplanes, five armoured cars, six lorries, a wireless
station. An electric searchlight. The town is lighted by electricity. The troops
are well clad and fed.
Kizil Arvat — 5ih August—Qurihon 400, majority Muslims of the 3rd
Turkestan Regiment which had just relieved the 7th Tashkent. Three guns, four
machine guns, one armoured car, one aeroplane, a wireless station, an electric plant
for lighting the offices and railway shops.
Askhabad — 9th August. —Garrison about 2,000 with headquarters of 1st
Frontier Brigade and of the Turkestan Independent Division for Frontier Defence.
According to an agent the regiments composing this garrison are the 2nd, 3rd, 5th,
6th, 7th, and 8th, Turkestan. According to the press the 1st Frontier Regiment and
1st Turkestan Regiment are there also. These units must therefore be mere
skeleton formations which is plausible in view of the announcement, previously
quoted in these pages, that some 4,700 men had been dismissed to indefinite fur
lough. Within this divisional area, counting from west to east, are the following
subsidiary garrisons :—
Krasnovodsk with not more than 500 (a Donski Cossack battery was here
for a short time but has been removed).
Kizil Arvat, 400 including 50 mounted.
Qara Qala, Duzle Teppe, Kohna Kesar, all frontier posts with total garrison
550 infantry, 100 mounted, nine machine guns.
Kheirabad, Garmab, Chaik, all frontier posts with total garrison of usually
about 100.
Firuza, frontier and convalescent station for Askhabad. Present garrison
about 300 probably all sick and convalescent details.
Kaushi s a cavalry cantonment, present garrison one mounted unit numbering
200, probably 1st Uzbeg Cavalry.
In addition the Askhabad garrison includes a heavy and a light artillery
division, both skeleton formations ; a machine gun detachment, and a military
school, present numbers, about 250 young Russians.
Four armoured cars are enumerated, two at Firuza, but it is possible the two
seen at Firuza are the same two reported from Askhabad.
Local formations include militia and a territorial regiment probably not
embodied, also 300 town police with single shot rifles.
Artik— 25 men .—All other railway stations are reported with normal garrisons
of 20 to 25, mostly “ Jaqits,” i.e., Turkmen militia.
*Kaakhka.— 9th August. —50 men.
Khivabad.— August. —30 men. *
Russian Archangan,— August. —15 men.
Dushak.^—K ot reported.
Tejen.-—K ot reported.