File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎710v] (1068/1080)

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(3) Reference paragraph 5. The names of the Indians therein noted are
given as:—
Abdus Sattar Khan.
Sheikh Muhammad Afaal.
Abdul Akbar Khan.
Maulana Abdul Rashid.
Zufar Omar (? Muhammad).
(i) The Bolshevik consul from Maimana arrived on the 26th December
and in company with Yulusov visited the JSaib-ul-Hukumah.
The Bolshevik vice-consul and a clerk left for Russia. It is understood
that their absence is temporary only.
Two Russians with three w'omen, at present unidentified, reached Herat
from Kushk on the 29th December.
In spite of a sharp look-out being kept for him both here and en route Yar
Muhammad has returned undetected from a second visit to Meshed.
(5) Various khans have placed some 30 more khavanin sowars at the dis
posal of the Naib-ul-Hukumah,
Sheikh Abdul Haq.
Muhammad Iqbal Shaidai.
Ghulum Sarwar Khan Sarwari.
Sayyid Ahmad Ali.
Chowdury Wazir Minister. Hussain.
Russian Turkistan.
14. Current events .—According to a Persian deserter (transferred for service
in the Persian battalion) who left Hi on the 16th December the Bolsheviks are
still having trouble in Semirechia from sporadic Cossack raids, and are obliged in
consequence to maintain garrisons at Hi and other points on the railway ready
for emergent action. A company of female soldiers, mostly unarmed, is reported
at Pisbpek.
( 2 ) Bolshevik posters announce that hostilities are at a standstill in
Perghana, and that they are carrying on negotiations with Shir Muhammad
Kur It appears more probable, however, that the weather is responsible for
the lull in that province.
In Khiva in mid-December Junaid Khan and his men .were reported to
be lying securely concealed in the desert. Bolsheviks bad offered, according
to general rumour, Khivan independence under Junaid’s rule subject to Soviet
suzerainty, and Junaid was said to be holding out for nothing less than com
plete independence with the reins of government in the hands of the son of
the late rightful khan. Both Junaid and the general public probably with the
best of justification, regarded the Bolshevist overtures with the greatest
suspicion.
In Bokhara hostilities are proceeding in the Baisun region. The Bolshe
vik position in the Kerki neighbourhood is said to be secure and the place
itself to be strong enough to resist any Bokharan aggression.
(3) Bolshevik speakers throughout Turkistan universally refer to a Red
invasion of Khorasan in the spring. Persians at Kerki were recently invited
to enlist in the Red Army for this purpose, and in some cases the invitation was
accepted. Audiences are toid that the venture offers little risk as the only
a\ailable force to le^- them are miserable sarbaz and gendarmes wTio are either
incapacitated by chronic indulgence in opium, or actually Bolshevik sympa-
•thiseis. In some cases a general invasion of Persia in the spring is foresha
dowed. This action is said to be absolutely necessary in the interests of
democracy and freedom, and the Red troops will have no quarrel with the
Persian population, A recent arrival from Askhabad heard that an earlier
invasion had been actually contemplated, but owing to the odium incurred
by Bolshevik action at Resht it had been decided to defer it till the spring and
. o u i ise the interval for popularising Bolshevism by strenuous propaganda.
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