ملف رقم ٥٢ لسنة ١٩١٢ الجزء ٣ "يوميّات بلاد فارس" [و‎‎١‎٧‎٣] (١١٢٨/٣٥٦)

boen killed by orders of the Governor of Guzar, an uncle of the Amir. There
was much excitement at Bokhara, one cause beinsf the advance of the Turks in
the Caucasus. Afghans and British Poshawari subjects were joining the Amir,
and were also contributing money, and on the date of the report the Bokharans
were practically in possession of Kaghan. As far as it is possible to judge at
the present moment the most likely solution of the Bolshevik movements is
that they intend to attack Bokhara, and are sending all they can spare in men
and guns to the frontier fortresses to discount any attempt of the Afghans
to assist the Bokharans. The Amir of Bokhara himself seems to
have been an unwilling agent in the matter, and his hand to have
been forced by circumstanc( s. As noted above there was apparentlv no excite
ment at Herat, or provision of these events, up to the 2nd instant. The Amir’s
troops wer3 being drilled daily by a German and two Turkish officers. Dele
gates had been sent from Bokhara to obtain the services of other Turkish officers
from the Caucasus.
Owing to the departure of Armenians with the Bolsheviks towards Tash
kent, tension between the Musulmans and Armenians in Transcaspia had re
cently somewhat decreased.
An agent reports an interesting conversation in a train between himself
and Yusuf Khan, about the most influentbil of the Merv Turkomans. The
Khan was asking about the arrival of British troops in Persia, and in speaking
of the possibility of the arrival of Turkish forces in Turkistan explained “ God
forbid that they should come: if I thought they were coming I would assemble
my headmen and proceed to Meshed to seek protection of the British Consul*
General/’
The proximate arrival of British troops in Turkistan is frequently roenr
tioned, especially among the Armenians.
Nothing of interest was reported from Krasnovodsk up to the 26th ultimo.
148. Propaganda .—German agents are reported active in various places.
One in particular at Askhabad (said to be a captain) is said to be a very able
man and to be active both among the Bolsheviks and the Musulmans. He was
recently heard to say that the Amir of Afghanistan had seriously interfered
with plans for Musulman union. Be incites both Bolsheviks and Musulmans
to violent action and with the latter professes to have adopted Islam. Two other
German agents are reported among the Tejen Turkoman who are already, owing
to famine, in a most unsettled condition. 5 German officers are reported to
have left Merv for Kushk. This may be connected with hints let fall by the
Herat party that they might shortly receive an addition to their numbers. In
this connection it is reported from Herat that von Gruden had stated that a
German trade agent had already reached Kushk.
Information has been received through Tehran that a German named
Ebert, living at the Persian Hotel at Samarkand is the head of German secret
service in Turkistan, and instructions to verify this by all possible means
have been given. A look-out is also being kep: for two German agents reported
to be on their way to Bokhara from the direction of Meshed.
E. A. E. ItEDL, Lieut.'•Colonel,
General Staff Officer,
S570GSB—40-18-3-18-GC;PSI