File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎504r] (655/1080)

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to Inquire if tie estates, gardens, motor cars, carriages, camels, mules, lorses iewellerv
and other artmles of luxury have been acquired out of legitimate Sul * ’
^ puMe^Z l" by ° f AqaVasuk-ud-Daula were devoted J
to determine if the promotions in the Gendarmerie were according to justice and individual
if the assassination of Major Astwar was according to law ?
to ask if a change of Cabinet after every ten days improves the condition of the country ?
Oh the pity, the pity of it all!
I declare I am at one with the members of the last Cabmet. I have done my best to look
?„ Khor“° n ^ “ eainar &i>m “y ™ 6 dur “S m 7 incumbency '
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I treated my political prisoners with consideration even though they were carrying on their
mischievous work while under arrest. J * yir
I have preserved the good name of a soldier and whatever I have done it has been under
orders and the orders themselves were unimpeachable.
Never in the history of Persia was there such a just Government as during my incumbency
I never spent anything from Government funds while I was Govenor-General, save only a
smaH amount on the indigent. It was during my Government that the military forces were
fully paid for the first time in their lives and their cadres have been expanded six fold during
my administration. 6
I have checked and reorganized the finances of every department, and have overcome distur
bances on the frontier. I arrested and punished renewed malefactors like Khudo Verdi and his
brother, Mursal Sadiqov, Din Muhammad, and Hazrat Quit It was at my suggestion that
committees were appointed to go into the affairs of the Shrine, but on the fall of the late Cabinet
only a few papers remain with me as a token of remembrance !
I have received a telegram from the Shah to which I submit but I
that my affairs may be investigated before I am accounted guilty.
pray for Justice and
In conclusion I express my gratitude to all my friends, military and non-military, for their
support and I rise from my table with tears flowing from my eyes like a flood.
I am a Persian and I am not only a lover and a well wisher of my country but I worship
her. If 1 am assassinated each drop of my blood will call to Persia ; if I am burnt my ashes
will help from the soil of Persia and will glorify her name.
Gk M. Press, Simku—No? C431FD—14-10-21—11—M.D.