File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎549r] (745/1080)

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i BAKi * Ho news of military importance has been received during the past
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week. It is said in Meshed that Haji Zain-ul-Abadin Taqiov.one
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of the one time wealthiest merchants of Baku, has died in a Bolshevik
jail. The news is described as having much exercised the lluslim pop
ulation.
%BASM0V , QJj 6& . There is a total service of six steamers plying between
Inzalli, Baku, and Krasnovodsk once a week.
The Special Department at this port consists of 16 Russians and
Armenians with one Qiria.
War material is reported by this observer to be kept under
ground.
Food is scarce even for men serving. Public feeling is much in
censed against the Bolsheviks on account of, it is said, forex a.e
abduction of women for the troops.
KIMIL ARY AT . The Bolsheviks have circulated the story in Kizil Arvat
that the British have arrested the aristocracy of Persia
and are keeping Ahamad Shah on the throne as a puppet king. Accord
ing to this story they have secured a fifty year monopoly over Persia
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They have withdrawn their troops, auctioned their stores, and demol
ished their cantonments as part of a deep laid scheme.
ASiMAEAD. Owing to the closing of the frontier since the beginning
of the month nothing has come through except an account
of the disarming of the Bailway workmen . This may be a measure of
precaution or the arms distributed to them as the Railway battalion
may hare been called i* for some other purpose. This eoammity has
always been an uncertain one politically and, during the end of the
period of the British occupation of Transcaspia, they were a source
of much anxiety to the Menshevik aovernment on account of their
Bolshevik sympathies.
A casual who escaped to Persia to avoid military service same
in by way of Darragaz. fie states ^ ^ garrison has beon greatl;