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INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY FOR THE WEEK ENDING THE- 2 ND “NOVEMBER 1918 ,
NUMBER 42 .
Khorasan and North=East Persia.
364. British force. —The following officers left Meshed : —
30th October. —Brigadier-General Dickson, C.I.E., Inspector General of
Communications, and Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Synge, D.S.O. for Turbat-i-
Haidari.
31st October. —Major Drummond, 13th Punjabis for Kahka.
27th October. —Arrivals, Lieutenant Khuda Laksh A wan, I.M.S. with
sick convoy of 32 patients from Askabad. (A sick convoy of 20 patients left
for Turbat on 31st October.)
30th October. —Lieutenant Stewart, M.C., 19th Punjabis from Kahka.
2 nd-Lieutenants Brown, Bowden, and Sargeant Supply and Transport
Corps, from Turbat-i-Haidari.
Transcaspian front. —The enemy have evacuated Merv and retired towards
the Oxus, Merv was occupied by our troops on the 1st instant.
365. Provinces. —Considerable local disturbances are reported from Astra-
bad where the Governor appears to be powerless, and to possess no armed force
capable of coping with malcontents.
Two Turkish agents are reported in Astrabad. A letter belonging to one
of them secured by one of our agents gives proof of his activities but there is
no indication of its source.
A report from the officers who proceeded to Sarakhs last week is awaited
as to the actual position of affairs there.
The Persian Consul at Askhabad Mirza Javad Khan, who bears none too
good a character, spent some days at Daragiz in mid-October apparently in
connection with the export of wheat to Russian territory. He is reported to
have had three Russians with him who were anxious to reach Tashkent but
whose passage was prohibited by the Governor and who returned to Russian
territory. The only name which could be identified was that of Rosenthal
that of a Bolshevik commissary supposed to have been killed at the time of
the Transcaspian arising but regarding whose fate there was some doubt.
Javad Khan makes a good thing of it at Askhabad by selling Persian flags to
timorous persons to utilise in time of stress for their personal protection.
366. Refugees. —The Russians noted last week were mostly officers who
had been serving with Zykov’s detachment of Turkomans against Kushk.
When Merv fell into Bolshevik hands the gallant Turkomans dispersed and
the officers succeeded in escaping across the Afghan frontier. Two of the
party were Menshevik refugees from the Bolsheviks from other places.
The person called by the Afghans “ Atrab ” is a young Russian subject
born of German parents named Edward Gatzke. He served in the Turkistan
sappers at Warsaw, was wounded and relieved from military service. He
fought at Tashkent during the Bolshevik rising against the Kerenski regime,
and on the defeat of the latter was a fugitive in Turkistan for some months
until he reached Herat some 9 months ago. He lived at Bagh-i-Kartah with
Von Gruden who, however, suspected him and treated him harshly until he
seized the present opportunity to depart. Had we be enable to get in touch
with him earlier he might have been exceedingly useful. As it is his return
to Herat seems out of the question.
367. The only person of this party whose detention is advisable is one
Shylov who accompanied Madame Von Schultz. This man appears to be both a
Bolshevik and in great part a German. With this exceptioh the male refugees
left for Kahka yesterday.
368. Local —The four Turkish escaped prisoners have now been recaptured
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