File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎584r] (815/1080)

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to have been demolished.
The protracted and stiff resistance put up by the ex Amit is
causing the Bolsheviks to suspect outside assistance. Excesses of
Bolshevik soldiery in Bokhara re reporter to have caused frequent
suicides. Latterly men of the Bed toy have not been allowed in
side the town after dark which has resulted in an improvement.
SAMABKALO . The same tale of want, destitution, and spoliation of
the rural population comes from Samarkand. The presence
of 20 Indians is noted, probably awaiting their turn at the school
at Tashkent whither, the informant says, others have preceded
those still in Samarkand.
A formation called the u .khranii Guard” is responsible for
commandeering supplied from the countryside. Scarcity is driving
numbers of villagers to migrate in the direction of Skka Bagh and
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In the first week of April no trains arrived from the direc
tion of Tashkent due, it was popularly supposed, to strike^ among
the railway staff.
An alarm was rinsed of a pending attack on Samarkand by Tors
Jan, uncle of the ex Amir, A reconnaissance in force went out in
the direction of Shahar-i—Sabz to meet the threatened movement.
The Civil Eomissar of Samarkand is Or mov.
The Director of Public Instruction is Kuhami ad Aqa Risaov
v Ai The Muslim Governor is Ahmad Janov.
m ji'/.ax . The description of general conditions is the same as that
just given above. Some time previously a foraging party
was set upon and the whole party killed by villagers, fhis led to
. reprisals and a massacre of villagers, those who survived being
set to hard labou* in the fields. Organised feeding of the people
.- I.,, at State bakeries is resorted to here as elsewhere.
c MAgQHTUK . There was an engagement between Bolshevik troops and
. insurgent Sarts in the first week of April and which
lasted three days. i!he Bolsheviks were forced to retire. Two days
later they were reinforced by nine troop trains from Tashkent. Af
ter two more days of fighting the rebels were defeated, losing