File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎519r] (685/1080)

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The Bolshevik Consul at Mazar-i-Sharif sends his despatches weekly through
Termez to Tashkent.
About the beginning of July a party consisting of a consul and staff of five,
all Afghans, with two others in European dress whose nationality could not be
^determined, passed through Termez to Mazar-i-Sharif.
Two steamers loaded with arms and ammunition passed Termez for Sarai
Kamar (date not given) and it was reported the consignment was a gift to the Af
ghan Government. It was to be sent to Kabul via Khanabad. Please compare
Intelligence Summary No. 29, page 15, “ Charjui
The Yash Bokharan Governor is Aqa Mulla Abdul Qadir. Military Komissar
is Marosin. City Komissar is Nikolai Nardiski. Agent for Foreign Affairs is
Vadaov. Commander of the Fort is Babarov. The Commandant of the Frontier
Brigade is Sadakvaski (?).
Guzar. July 16th. —The city is three miles away from the railway station.
The food situation is comparatively easy. Troops are on full rations and
have been clothed and shod.
The train service to Guzar from Karshi is only once a week.
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The Government is in the hands of the Yash Bokharni. The governor is
Mulla Abdul Hafiz. Military Komissar is Webman (Weberman ?).
Bokhara. July 9th to 13h. —The Governor of Bokhara is Faizulla Khwaja
• who took such a prominent part in the early Young Bokharan movement winch,
with the assistance of the Bolsheviks, expelled the Amir.
U The only Russians permanently in Bokhara are the Consul and 6 personnel
though^ Russian visitors arrive occasionally.
( Some twelve Indians were seen applying for passports to go to Baku. They
were propagandists and were going to Persia via Enzalli.
All holders of high office in Bokhara are elected every six months. The next
elections come off in August and trouble is expected.
Some 1,300 Bokharans were enlisted for the Red Army. The majority
have deserted. The Bolsheviks have published an amnesty if they return within
15 days, otherwise they will be shot if apprehended.
Ustana Kul Kashbegi who was the ex-Amir’s Prime Minister, is in charge of
the revenue, assisted by 7 others. He is appropriating to the State 10 per cent,
of all crops.
* Those who fought against the Amir now repent of their action and would
I whole-heartedly help him were he to return to the Khanate.
Bolsheviks are moving troops to Kushk and Patta Kesar.
Bokharans between the ages of 18 and 35 are conscribed and sent to Tashkent
for training. The Bokharan army is being organized by 20 Usmanh and ^80
Russian officers.
The proclamation of Bokhara’s autonomy was accompanied by a military
parade. The troops marched from Bokhara to Astarman where is situated the
ex-Amir’s palace, some six miles away.
Two hundred Bokharans have been sent to Tashkent for instruction in engine
driving, telegraphy, and other railway technique as the Bolsheviks intend to
hand over the railways traversing the Khanate to the Bokhaians.
Samarkand. July Three hundred literate men have been selected to
undergo instruction at Tashkent in railway technique.
Cattle are being collected and sent to Moscow for the troops there. Farmers
are appealed to for sympathy for their comrades m those stricken areas and
exhorted to share their comforts of life with them. They are promised preserved
meat in the winter in lieu of the cattle they are now sacuncing.