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File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [556r] (759/1080)
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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Indian Nation".
SAMABA . An arriTal in Meshed from Moscow had been in Bussia since the
fighting on the German front where he was employed to dig
twenches. He was subsequently employed in an iron foundry in Moscow. At
the time he left that city (April 1st) there were 20,000 troops there,
mostly drawn from Siberia and Turkestan. Conditions at the Capital are
the worst possible. For want of fuel and raw materials all the factor
ies hare been idle for a year and most of them are now closed down. The
narrator had not seen meat for two years. Discontent is fife among the
working classes whom the Soviet has declared are dearer to it than all
others, Serious hunger riots have taken pjace. Scarcity of food is so
great that many live for days on nothing but sun-flower seeds. Meat is
no longer procurable and even all milch cattle have been slaughtered.
All arms and ammunition, also other Government stores are being
shifted to Samara. All the Government offices at Moscow are also mo
ving there. When arrived at Sizran Junction it was said that there was
a rising among the Cossacks. Shore was an ambulance train at this
junction full of wounded who had come from the direction of Saratov.
At Samara on the 9th to 11th April there were 5,000 troops in
trains. Martial law obtained. The # 5 ole population was described as
being in sympathy with the insurgent Cossacks. The people of Samara
are described by the traveller to be starving. Large numbers of forced
labourers were seen at Samara. They were said to have been brought in
from the direction of Tashkent.
The munition factories of which so much was heard a little time
ago are idle due to a strike of operatives.
At Bujlokh which is midway between Samara and Orenburg the
people in combination with the workmen had arrested ac me sixty Commu
nists andhad assumed control* Between Orenburg (April 15th) and Ak-
Bulak the railway line had been breached in many places. Between t his
place and Tashkent there were enforced 1 bI ts of many hours to allow
north bound troop, trains to pass'
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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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