File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎643r] (933/1080)

APPENDIX 1.
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Ittifaq-i-Islam, dated 28th March 1921.
1 . Promotions and transfers of army officers.
Naib Salar Nizami of Herat is transferred to Kabul on account of ill health
and will be succeeded by General Ghulam Nabi Khan from Kandahar.
2 . Award of honours.
3. An account of the murder of Mr. Bravin and the execution of his
assassins.
4. Instructions for the levy of Customs and Octroi Dues.
Foreign News.
5. Moscoiv .—In the agreement between the Soviet and Brnish Govern
ments—at the proposal of the Soviet, the integrity and independence of Afghan
istan, Persia and the integrity of the Ottoman Committee were agreed upon.
6 . Commencement of hostilities with Georgia—Soviet Republic and Georgia
have commenced fighting.
7. Tehran .—After taking up the office of Prime Minister Syed Zia-ud-din,
with the help of the Cossacks, has arrested the whole of the aristocray of Tehran
excepting the Bakhtiari Chiefs. The Mullahs are respectfully confined to their
homes. All papers, even Zia’s own organ, “ Raad ” have been suspended.
The only sheet allowed publication is “Iran” (copied from the “ Sharq-i-
Iran.”
8 . Reproductions from Zamana affairs in Persia, “ Preparation for war
in Anatolia Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey. ,” etc.
APPENDIX 2.
The tenor of the Bolshevik press received to date is still economics-animal,
vegetable, and mineral. “When the Soviet Government took oyer the mills
and factories it was evident that not only bread was. necessary but. that a
great deal besides was wanted—fuel, machines, various kinds of instruments,
hides, hemp, flax, cotton, and so on. At that time when the government turned
to the rural districts to obtain the wherewithal for her factories it came up
against the fact that the peasantry were sowing a great deal oi wheat, but had
thrown over flax, hemp and cotton
“ Keeping this in view the Soviet Government in Tnrkistan has divided
agriculture into certain fixed limits—part of the sowing to be wheat, part cotton
and other products. Only so much has been determined as is withm our power
to take up and work.”
This exhortation concludes with the usual threats to the village In admen
and “ begs ” for recalcitrancy.
It is a curious fact, yet noteworthy,
so far contain no reference to the terms ot the * ^h acclamation. ' The
ment, despite its conclusion is rna e ^ one mav hazard two—they do
reasons for this policy are P r0 ' ,a > ■ , „ 0 licv of propaganda warfare
not like to proclaim % ^“ovelt (fisrfgari of tl etonditions relat-
against England or if they mediate covert ^ of thei , agre ements to
ing to propaganda, they do not mtt tho ce ntral body controlling
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by which they gained access to our markets.