File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎679v] (1006/1080)

buying and selling of houses in the town, the majority of wdiich ar« being
bought up by French people. The premises of the Tsentro-Soyuz have been
sealed.
Drunkenness is spreading among the troops who also mutilate themselves,
even to the extent of self-inflicted gun-shot wounds. Their uniforms are in a
miserable state. An armoured train with one gun is stationed on the frontier,
while trendies have been dug. Feeling among frontier troops is strained and
a storm is expected at any moment, while desertions across our frontier are
frequent.
Extract from the “ Nabat 9 ” Askhabad, dated 11th February
192?.
Previous reports of the arrival of wounded in Askhabad are confirmed by
this edition which draws attention to the bad arrangements made for the
evacuation of sick and wounded arriving in a hospital train from Nachevak.
It appears that the casualties were put into country carts for despatch to Kashi
some 5 versts from Askhabad. Many of them were suffering from broken bones
and must have suffered considerably since the “ araba ”, or country cart, is
without springs and a source of discomfort even to sound passengers. Appa
rently the sufferers were returned to their starting place and are described as
having arrived back with tears and cursing their torturers. The paper calls
attention to the prevalence of postal thefts, complaining that it is not often that
a soldier of the Red Army gets parcels from home and that when, he is so
fortunate the contents have, as often as not, been tempered with.
An officer, the commander of the oth company of the Turkistan Pegi’
ment, ivan Provoyerov, has frequently spread provocatorv rumours in the course
of his conversation w ? ith the men of the Red Army—for instance he
tated that two wagons of wheat had been taken from the Red Army
and sent; to those speculators in wheat, Lenin and Trotsky, that formerly
wai had been waged according to fixed principles of humanity and the wishes
0 the sar. Now, on the olher hand, it was conducted according to any sort
cf programme. He is also reported to have complained that in place of ikons
the autnontres wmre exhibiting to the people new idols—the portraits and statues
^ arx ’ ^ ema > Trotsky, and others. In the end he w T as taken before the
Revolutionary Mar Tribunal” and sentenced to three years in the Concentra
tion Camp at Tashkent.
Eosta of the 9th February gives various items of information among
which might be noted the following
English Foeces in the near East.
The budget requirements include a sum for the maintenance of troops in
yiA non wl °^ eI C0 ' Ju{ries ot tJle ^ar East. The total armed force is
4,000 but lately the course of events has forced its augmentation to 236,000.
■the yearly expenditure is estimated at £36,000,000 but this amount has risen
in the present financial year to £49,000,000.
Persia is against the English.
a ratifiraH^nf t t^ er i ia , 1 Ile ® tiD ?s are being convened to express pro tests against
the PeSan nation? S whioh ° noe and a11 w!11 enclave An area of land belonging to one country and entirely surrounded by land of just one other country.
A letter prom Enver Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. .
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T7- Th e paper ‘‘Georgia’’states ; Enver Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. has sent a letter to Mustanha
partoinw^rfaSe^f K 01 ’ 6 ? • K ' l ' am ■ PaS 1 lia in which he wish to Participate in die
e tiT^S^ W'* u™ object he is ready to con-
buta the mm oi l.GoO.OOO pounus belonging to himself. Mustapha Kemal