File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎605r] (857/1080)

zation. Those exempt for any particular cause are expected to do
the work of those called to arms.
loads of troops as having
arrived from Turkestan but gives no dates. He also mentions the
presence of la-Alma troops.
The railway line to Pitrovsk was tom up by the Daghestanis
and, presumably by way of reprisal, Berbent was bombarded from
the sea. The lezgians sent a deputation of nine delegates to
petrovsk to complain of this treatment. The deputation was
imprisoned and later news states it was “destroyed”. Hostilities
appear to have followed, a Greneral Ashkurov being quoted as the
insurgent leader in those parts. At the time of the report he
was in the Alma Yerdi country. The Chichin tribe are credited
with having joined him.
On the 25th March the Bolsheviks sent eight troopships to
Petrovsk with troops destined ostensibly to Moscow. They have
given out that this will now be the normal troop route to the
North.
Communist women are serving as nurses in the hospitals and
as warders in the jail. Some even carry rifles and serve in the
police.
A press notice was issued by the Bolsheviks offering free
dom to two and three year convicts who would volunteer for mili
tary service.
There was some talk in Baku of the Bolsheviks intending to
assist the Angoma Nationalists with troops.
KRAdAOYQBSIu Nothing communicated.
Klhlh ARVAT . Nothing communicated.
GMSOKH TAPPS . Nothing ccEimunicated.
ASKBABAD . The chaise in military organization which was predictec
last year appears to have taken place and the iaead-
quarters of the 1st Turkestan Rifle Division moved to Merv. It
has seemed for some time that the Russian military mass is
moving centrifugally eastwards and time will show if present