File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎695v] (1038/1080)

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authority. The Naib-ul-Hukumah is rendering a report on the matter to the
Amir and in the meantime Abdul K&rim is being despatched to Kabul under
supervision.
( 2 ) The Naib-ul-Hukumah has accommodated in the Chahar Bagh an
arrival from Russian territory concerning whom some mystery is observed
He is supposed to be a secretary of an Afghan general implicated in the con
flict of Bokharan forces with the Bolsheviks 3 and to have come either to arrange
for funds for his chief or for the evacuation of certain Afghan omns still ?n
Bokharan territory. ° 11
(3) Several batches of Indians totalling 17 in all reached Herat from
Russia up to the 13th January. They are in poor circumstances and appear
to be residents in Turkistan who proceeded there in the time of the late Amir
and who have now been expelled by the Bolsheviks for whom they have not a
good word to say. Their intention is said to be to return to India via Kabul
Ihe names of three of them are given as Khuda Baksh, Gul Muhammad, and
. A ? ! e ^ R uss i an ladies with the man accompanying them left for Kabul
via Kandahar on the 7th January accompanied by an Uzbeg interpreter
An0th f A zbe £’ ^ Is( ? said t0 be an i^preter, arrived a day or so later and
proceeded to the Bolshevik consulate.
? id *° 1 be a clerk t0 tbe BoIslie fik envoy at Kabul, with, his
wife left by the Kandahar caravan on the 11 th January.
, , J 5 ) Iu spite of the announcement that the Naib-ul-Hukumah was renorted
on the*!] tlTFilstant^' 8 es ^ abllsbmen *' khavanin he accepted another 7Q P men
( 6 ) The current number of the “ Ittifaq-i-Tslam,” published on
January, is noticeably more anti-English. The new editor is a i
Yulusov who doubtless calls the tune..
the 11 th
nominee of
Russian Turkistan.
January l^tT ^“tV!*
ErThe”*! “t ft ttfo^ D d ° f ‘^troops ilr^^eT
and m^nhlot pted ota L Stit ^7^ ^ guns
Kussians were slid to be destined for «the P rsian f?^’° d m ° Stly
x:;r., \ - ».Uf
work.” Apart °from the hard let It t T 84 ^r for “ non-combatant
that Utopia is still somewhat more dist^S^gST
. . .
appears to Tave “etTn. 0^^° other Bokhara and a lull
in Khiva, and the Bolsheviks Invo m " ^ ^ bln ^ s are g°i n g none too well
and obstinate attifude of JunaTd ThTT ‘ 7 P °i ter that ^ treasonable
off and that bostiSties have recommenced” Th Sed ? e “°, tia f? ns to be b « k «“
to Khiva from Charjui on the 1 st January. ' 111166 hundred tr 00 P s were sen t
evaeuatiou r of a the province atdlonlnurth^WsTnlTacties" bUt B ° lshevik
the mor^ifl^toThe^sVrce^ w qand t0 tbe 7tb of tb « “on‘ b
attacks on small bodies of troops or isolated t ^ 0 " slc '™'^.F. shaken by continued
actual occupation of Andiian 1 A t Tn M td , men ; kbei ' e 18 some doubt as to the
mad was thought to be holdL H W m tbe moath Sbir Mnham-
are apparently” making a defermined Iff 0 t th , er r UrCes the Bolsheviks, who
recapture it. An unconfirmed 4 rumour o/tbe , iad , ac ; t " all J. or were, likely to
circulation. Bolshevik wounded from 1 ?! Sf d th of ., Ir( l a sli in action is in
at Tashkent and elsewhere. ' ^ Terghana are still brought in to hospital
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