File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎527v] (702/1080)

etc. Great distress exists among the working classes. Troops have had a new
issue of clothing and sailors are expensively dressed but there is a great dearth of
clothes for other communities.
{Hi) There are about 1,000 women under training. Half are Muslims and half
Kussians. Some are expected to adopt army nursing and some to serve in the
police. They receive two hours’ instruction daily.
{iv) Theatres are numerous and free.
{v) Martial Law prevails.
(vi) An Usmanli officer, Nuri Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , is at Baku and also some Usmanli troops.
[vii) Nariman Narimanov is known as the king of Baku.
I (viii) Impassioned speeches have lately been delivered at crowded meetings
calling for volunteers to assist the Angora Government. Those who complied
were paraded before the crowd, given good uniform and boots and a hearty send
off in detachments via Trebizond.
| (ix) There were some 30 Turkish Nationalist officers who made speeches on the
need of unity among the Islamic powers. Some departed with the above
volunteers who numbered about 5,000. Five left for Tabriz as propagandists
and eight were sent to Enzalli, Resht, and Astara for a similar purpose. Two
were sent to persuade Kuchik Khan of the benefits of pan-Islamism.
(x) The rendition of Kars by the Bolsheviks to the Angora Government was
being discussed in Baku.
(xi) It was announced on the 30th June that Anwar Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. was expected in
Baku and that he would raise a Pan-lslamic army tKefe'.' '' "
|| {xii) Large numbers of propagandists are sent to Persia from Baku.
Krasnovodsk. July 10th .—The steamer service between Krasnovodsk is
one vessel every third day. and the average of trains from and to Askhabad is
one a day. Large consignments of wool and cotton bales arrive for transhipment
to western Caspian ports.
Askhabad. 7th to 14th July. — (i) The Afghan Consul has left for Bokhara
whence he hopes to return to Kabul.
(li) Processions of schoolboys and girls may be seen parading in the streets
preceded by a red flag and wearing red shirts and a red stripe down their trousers.
They include Turkmen children.
(m) I he Persian consul has no influence and is unable to protect his nationals.
{w) The Turkmen are very discontented and are greatly resenting the
compulsory education of their children.
i r ^ Ur t me vr^ ? ^> eS are rec P lire(i provide each two women to the Askhabad
bianch of the Women s Association where they receive two hours’ instruction
cany aymg completed the course they are required to disseminate what they
have been taught m their villages.
i /FT? so ^i ers caught in an attempt to desert were brought
back to Askhabad and executed.
(m) Ihe head of the Revolutionary Military Soviet or Council in Askhabad
bakharov and his assistants Ivanov and Mishinov.
T.rprimhlJ 1 * ]? \ Wn M 7 / 00 * 01 who was stationed at Gaudan for plagi
J* • • ® Ff 8 ?f en recalled to Askhabad. She appears to have fallen und
suspicion politically. See under Bolshevik Garrisons
1 ak-pFtn July 8thr An arrival in Meshed who was a Governme]
a azar con radicis the estimate of troops given in last week