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File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [545r] (737/1080)
The record is made up of 1 item (540 folios). It was created in Jan 1921-Jan 1923. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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A news letter of the 26th April reports the arrival at Bashad-
i- 6 ar of a ship with a coasignment of 46,000 poods of mineral oil.THe
cargo was discharged and purchased by the Governor General at hajf a
kran per pood# A return cargo was taken on board# The Governor
General is reported to have gone to Gumash Tappe to collect sheep &
cattle from Turkmen wherewith to make up another cargo. This will
not he permitted by the Customs officials as there are strict orders
against the export of slaughter cattle.
BAJMRI) . Ho news has been received from this region during the past
week# Humours credit the lomud Turkmen with having raided
there but nothing confirmatory has been heard from arrivals or
written by the correspondent at Bajnurd. A letter has been received
from Colonel Haji Murad who is in retreat at laagi Qala, which is
some fifty versts north east of Bajnurd# He affords no information
beyond claiming that a certain section of his community in Trans-
easpia wish him to return there as their titular chief.
J3BI3TM . Mo information of a reliable nature has come from this
source except that a party of sixty men with machine guns
has been sent from the Askhabad garrison to Galol Hill which is a
defensive point in the Askhabad military area. It is probably a
relief party which has been noticed.
BAJGIRAN .The chief of the Special Department at Uaudan, the Russian
military post opposite Bajgiran, passed the night of 30th
April in Persian territory where he is said to have said when intox
icated that habardast Khan had plenty of resources and to he on veq
good terms with the Bolsheviks# On the following day Persian
officials were invited across to Gaud an to see some sort of plsy ix
three acts depicting life in Russia under the rule of the Tsar and
under the Bolsheviks# These latter psopje, it may be observed in
parenthesis, make great use of what they call ’spectables” as
instruments of propaganda. The following was the cast of the play:
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The item consists of Part 1 of the subject file 1341/1921: 'Meshed Consular & Intelligence Diaries (1921-1922)'.
It contains numbered periodical (mainly weekly) reports relating to Persia [Iran], initially each called an 'Intelligence Summary' and later called a 'Meshed Intelligence Diary'. The reports cover the period of the week ending 1 January 1921 to the period ending 1 January 1923. They are initially issued by the British Military Mission, Meshed [Mashhad, also known as Mashad or Meshad], and later by the Military Attaché, Meshed. The intelligence summaries, and diaries, relate to political, foreign, military and diplomatic affairs in the locality and the neighbouring regions and are variously arranged under (chiefly) the following headings: 'Khorasan and North-East Persia'; 'Herat and Afghanistan'; 'Russian Turkistan'; 'Khorasan'; 'Cis-Frontier'; 'Trans-Frontier'; 'Afghanistan'; 'Bolshevik Garrisons'; 'Local'; 'Transcaspia'; 'Bokhara'; 'Tashkent'; 'Central Russia'; 'Khiva'; 'Ferghana'; 'General'; and 'Samarkand'. The summaries often include appendices which are usually extracts of local and national newspapers published in the regions and countries of interest, including Nabat , Rosta , Izvestia , Ittifaq-i-Islam , Bednota, Prolitarii , Sharq-i-Iran, and Pravda . Other appendices contain details of Bolshevik Garrisons in the region.
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