File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎631r] (909/1080)

ns dangerous as the enemies they met there. The foreign officers, under whom
. e y ^ ere serving, proved traitors to Persia’s cause, and their attitude, together
with the equally treacherous policy of foes within, precipitated the tragic disaster
which ultimately befell them. Manifesto declares that many objects of
recent action of the Cossacks are to protect the person of His Imperial Majesty
Ihe Shah and to safeguard the interests of the country and concludes by express-
mg loyal sentiments such as “ Long live the Shah of Persia.” “ Long live the
Persian nation ! ’ ’
Extract from the “Chaman,” Meshed, dated 2nd March 1921, No. 54.
A letter, signed bv “ M-Ly,” anpears on the front page of the paper, in
which the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. heartilv approves of the course of action advised by the paper
in the issue numbered 52, in reference to what Persia’s attitude should be to
wards her two neighbours, vis., suitable revision of Anglo-Persian agreement
and conclusion of a trade Treaty with Soviet Russia. The writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. is certain
Persia’s salvation lies in following the course indicated above. To fall in with
the wishes of one of her neighbours i^id to cease all connections with the other
cannot and will hot be to .her interest.
An editorial remark on views expressed in above letter follows immediately.
Editor entirely agrees with purport of above letter and states that he has nothing
to withdraw from what was expressed in issue of the paper referred to in above
correspondence. He welcomes the letter as being indicative of a more respon
sible and far-sighted view that is now being steadily acquired by the thinking
sections of the community.
APPENDIX 3.
The first Party Conference of the 1st TurJcistan Pifie Division.
Resolution .—In view of the fact that the nations of the East were purposelv
isolated from all educational work, our Party must give special attention to work
in the East. All party and non-party Musulman in the Red Army who are
capable of conducting political and educational work, must be sent to attend
economic and political courses.
In the colonies, where the population is under the yoke of Imperialism, we
must support the Revolutionary National Liberating movement. In liberated
colonies, we must support tho autonomy of the working classes, including the
revolutionary peasantry.
Extract from the “ Nabat,” dated 26th February 1921.
Sentries are still necessary.
Our Red Army is still being reduced. A portion of it, proved in war, Red
heroes of the Red Army, is returning to its native towns and villages in order
to take up the ordering of a new and better life.
Already the hammer is heard in peaceful occupations, peacefully whirrs
machinery throughout the vastness of Soviet Russia, in peace the husbandman
ploughs his land—the peasant workers are fashioning a new manner of life.
Quiet are the fields of Soviet Russia ; no longer rolls the thunder of her guns, the
rattle of musketry is no longer heard.
Silent are our enemies, for at last they have left our Red frontiers in peace,
The war is over and the long awaited peace is with us.
Yet why has not the whole of the Red Army piled its arms ? Why lias
only a part of it departed for the Labour front I Because, verily, we cannot
leave the first peasant-workers republic of the world without safeguard and
without protection.
Along our frontiers must still stand the trusty and brave sentries of tho
workers revolution,—the men of the Red Army. We have reduced, we have
cut down, the number of these sentries who guard our republic, but has the