File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎646v] (940/1080)

Darogaz .—News from the sub-province is scanty unfortunately and what
does get through is too sensational for acceptance without confirmation. It
appears that Khudo has taken up his quarters in Duringer in which area
Zabardast Khan has always found his strongest supporters. The latter
has been trying to temporise with the Governor-General of Khorasan by
telegraphing he is able to manage Khudo if given sufficient latitude by the
former. Information of the seizure by Zabardast Khan of the money lying in.
the Kevenue Office in Irntfabad is authentically afforded. Other reports state
a reconnaissance by him of the Allah ho Akbar Pass which lies between Quchan
and Paragaz in case military measures for his apprehension be initiated.
The Governor-General has intimated Khudo of his willingness to grant
him an amnesty provided he settles down quietlv in Persia but at a sufficient
distance from the frontier. The reply, if any, is unknown. It is hardly likely
that Khudo, whose vanity must have been increased to an inordinate extent by
the patronage of the Bolsheviks, his deputation to Moscow, etc., would consent
to accept the position of a quantile neglige able.
^ rai / ous 801llce8 of information point to a rupture between himself and the
Bolsheviks who are said to have deprived him of his fire weapons and
that his arrival in Persia was more in the nature of a flight from Russia.
Ihis . movement, however, may be more manoeuvre, on the other hand it is
definitely known that the Governor-General had approached the Russian
authorities at Askhabad through Nadir Mirza, the Persian Consul, tohave the
man removed from the vicinity of the frontier where his activities must alwavs
exert a disturbing influence on his fellow tribesmen, the Kurds of Northern
Persia.
at 3 00 0 t~ ent ^ ^ overno,!, ‘^ enera ^ for military purposes is giv^n
Lugabad. Mineral oils are arriving from Russia. The Turkomans #e
f ld t0 be under a forcetl contribution «f 25 poods of wheat. 25 sheep, and one
horse per man. > ^ “nu.
Arahmqan—^h correspondent reports that Bolshevik soldiers some freely
and with then- arms to Arehingan. Be notes the new movement for tie
selection of Turkoman women and their despatch to schools where Communist
contained in the Appendix. An aCC ° Unt ° £ the first acting of those selected is
ATaZah-This correspondent confirms the intelligence contained in the
previous paragraph but says that every group of 50 families has to furnish
two women as delegates for instruction.
Eolan to Chaacha. Turkomans lately entering Persia from this direetinn
^cVttle and c°ere t a < lsi mPart bey0n<1 heaVy im P osition le ™ d ^ kind lipon
Sarokhs. Yielding to Bolshevik pressure the Governor has arrested some
half dozen men tor alleged complicity in the murder of 8 Turkomans referred
relinks Of f nce & ™“ ar y 13 paragraph 96. One hundred Tekke Turkomans
relatives of the murdered rnen, arrived in Russian Sarakhs and signified their
intention m die in the attempt to avenge the murder.
Sarakhs being an avenue for exportation of Persian products to Russia
has not been wanting its deputation of Russian trade delegates. These require
hides of all sorts, wool cotton, barley, wheat, opium, all description of stock
gums, poppj seed oil seeds and cloth. They offer the following^ exchange’
silk, crude and refined petroleum, benzine, cotton cloths, glassware and iron '
■j rP n ^ °f tJie ‘ products detachments ” which were organized in Transcasnia
with thl| e horded wheats 7 h th t the ° f makin? T ‘ llage Sandmen part
a medatorv tour a 6 '"If Started from Bussia » Sarakhs on
i J , ‘ ^ccoiding to the correspondent the detachment consists of
beautifui girls escorted by sowars. Tliey had -succeeded in coUectinTlO 000
pooas (nearly 20 Ions) of wheat and were ambitious of ten tim-s that amount “
for ttis larse ^ ° f ^