File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎555r] (757/1080)

who came to Bokhara from auku about two months ago are still there. Ko c
of the Jewish elements in the various departments at Kagan have been
replaced by Russians from Tashkent,
posters announced a rising of the tribes on the Indian frontier,
their invasion of British territory and the infliction of heavy losses
on our troops.
The wireless station is near the Hesidency. A Hesident has been
in office for the last month.
The Military Komissar is Gorchakov; the Civil lomissar, 2 ,aisov;
the police komissar, Lakhov; the food Komissar, Qramov, a Jew; Persian
leaders are uiamat, Mustafa, Azad Khan, and Saiad Abbas,
ffiOJMl. It is reported that fighting in Ferghana is at an end and that
the Bolshevik troops were to evacuate the country by the 1 st
jLu t y w 8 ii it would oe handed over to its own representatives. About the
19th April a party of ten consisting of Tatars, Turkmen and Usmanlis
passed through Khojend on their way to Kokand. They were given an en-
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thusiastic reception and were said to be goin^ to meet the Ferghana
representatives at Kokand.
TASEKEIP . Hews from the capital of Turkestan is not very recent and
what there is is made up of rumburs of insurrections in the
interior and North of Russia, the local scarcity where raisins do duty
for sugar and dried apple peel for tea. The location of the intelli
gence School is given as Old Sart Bazar. Its teaching staff is said
to have about 25 Russian officers, 4 Russian Turks, and 12 Armenians.
Other officers also visit the school — presumably on inspection.
Trains far the public are run once a week. This is borne out
by other observers. This observer also calls attention to the Bolshev-
ik4* suspicions with regard to Afghanistan,
Some 25 Indians arrived in Tashkent about the 10th April. One
was a greybeard, the others were all young. They used to pay daily
visits to the off icon of the Comroandant of the garrison. They were of
| & &ind to go on to Moscow. They were called brothers by the Bolshevil:
ancl di & n i"ied by the designation of 'representatives of the Indian