File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎528v] (704/1080)

Compulsory education lias been instituted.
Kagan. July 8th .—The Bolsheviks have declared a State monopol
Karakul skins and in Bokhara there is a special commission which fixes the '
and pays for all those taken over. ^ P 1100
Bokharan conscripts are trained by Usmanli officers who arrived in the beo'
ning of June. (Another observer corroborates this.) ° ln ''
It has been publicly announced in Bokhara that the Afghan and Turkish t
ties had been signed and that the Afghan Ambassador at Moscow was to arrive^"
Bokhara about 20th July to perform the ceremony of handing over Bokhara f 111
the Soviet Government to the Bokharans. All Soviet troops would tlunT
evacuated to the Transcaspian province.
Twenty per cent, of sheep and all available cows, horses and cample a
collected, paid for, and sent to Tashkent.
The Governor of Bokhara is Pisar Abdulla Khwaja. His assistant is 4
Khwaja. The Kavkazi representative is Nasrulla Sikanderov, the Persia^
Mamat Hamidov and Meshedi Jalil Tabrezi, and the Jew, Solomonov.
Khojent. June 29th .—The two cotton pressing and ginning mills are idle
owing to want of the raw material.
The coal mines are situated near the Dragomirovo station which is west of
Khojent. 2,000 people are at work in these mines and more are being procured
The total daily yield is 20 trucks if the hands are well fed but when rations are
short the output diminishes to such an extent that at times no coal at all is produced
All output is at once removed by train.
About 1,000 women are employed in Khojent in hand spinning and weaving
They are given a daily ration of half pound of bread and half pound of fruit with
a monthly dole of apple, tea, raisins, and soap. Troops get a pound of bread a dav
others seven pounds of flour a month. Meat is given once a week. Donkevs haw
at times been slaughtered for food. ^
Sher Muhammad Kur is not yet disposed of despite what the Bolsheviks say.
Me is expected to raid ISkobelev at any time.
The condition of the refugees from Kazan is most distressing. In many cases
their only garment is a gunny bag with apertures cut out to admit the arms and
head.
No epidemic has made its appearance so far in Khojent.
. railway employes are all-powerful and do what they please. Theyconvey
“ t he J r ns w T \ omsoever hke and the Bolshevik officials are powerless to
prevent theim There is a growing unity among them all over the Russian systems.
Other employes of nulls, public works, etc., are in accord with them. '
Andijan July 10th.~Hh.ae is nothing in the report from this centre which
is not a repetition of the foregoing. Although autonomy has been supposed to
yj 'T 1 tyj 1 e ., . 0 , erghana since a month the military government is still in
the hands of the Bolsheviks who also retain control of other departments. They
talk a great deal about evacuation but have not effected it yet.
affrirnlture'an'd j n ^ l ,r0 ™ IC( -'. Instead people are lectured on
agriculture and other subjects while attempts are made to educate the illiterate.
surroundmgfountr^ ^ alWa7S ^ m ° Ve ColIeotin S food ma ^als from the
Ttooto were”n rfducfd ratffiu h6 Want -° f f ? od and Nothing at this time was acute,
hin^apes dmlJ UCed a pound instead of a pound and a
fruit^OO^roubles^a pound W ® re °P aindl 8 • Ua ck bread 1,000 roubles a pound;
tobacco stalks 5 000 roubles . n,/ ° /! ?°5i jS roubles; a box of matches 700;
tobacco stalks o,000 roubles and meat 3,500 roubles a pound.