مجموعة ٨/٢٨ "بلاد فارس؛ اليوميات؛ سيستان وكاين، أبريل ١٩٢٧ – ١٩٣٣" [و‎‎١‎٦‎٥] (٤٣٤/٣٤٠)

Diary of His Majesty’s Consul, Sistan
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71. King’s Birthday Celebrations .—
Morning' receptions were held on 4th June
at Birjand by His Majesty’s Consul, at
Nasratabad (Sistan) by the Vice Consul
and Medical Officer, Major Kharegat,
and at Duzdap by the Vice Consul,
Captain Macann. A dinner of 19 covers
was given by His Majesty’s Consul at
Birjand the same evening.
72. Persian Military Affairs. —Deference
paragraph 59.
Sarhang Mohammad Khan Nakhjawan,
Officer Commanding Sistan Brigade, ar
rived in Duzdap from Sistan with his
family on June 6th.
73. Following on the appropriation of
Tomans 400,000 by the Majlis for the forth
coming operations against Dost Moham
med, {vide His Majesty’s Minister,
Tehran’s despatch No. 65, dated 3rd May
1928), Khan Sahib Idu Khan Reki has been
•commissioned to collect two months’ sup
plies for 2,000 men at Khwash, ten Chev
rolet lorries have been ordered for the
Duzdap—Mirjawa-—Khwash line of com
munications, and 210 auxiliary camelry
have been recruited from the Baluch tribes
of Sistan. The contract for the supply of
grain from Sistan to the troops at Duzdap
has been given to Seth Fida Hussain, who
is the Sistan representative of the notorious
firm of Mohammed Ali Brothers and a near
relative of Ghulam Abbas and other ac
cused in the Karachi Coining Case.
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ported to have threatened to kill Idu. Such
an occurrence would be very welcome to
Dost Mohammed, the chief object of whose
strategy at the moment is to induce the
Persians to attack him at his own time—
the hot weather—-as well as on his own
ground. His Majesty’s Consul has reason
to believe that the Persians do not propose \
to fall into this trap, and will not in any i
circumstances advance before the autumn, i
75. Persian Officials. —The Passport
Offices at Duzdap and Sistan have been
abolished, and passports will in future be
issued by the Police.
76. M. Abdul Hussain Khan Adib, com
monly called Yaghma’i after his grand
father, the well-known Radical poet of
Biabanak, has been appointed Rais-i-
Sulhiyeh (Civil Judge) of the Qainat,
Sistan and Duzdap, with headquarters at
Birjand. For some months he had been
holding the post of Public Prosecutor at
Birjand, in spite of the fact that there
has been no court for him to prosecute in.
M. Abdul Hussain Khan is an unusual type
of Persian, having plenty of moral courage
and a thoroughly independent point of
view which makes him very unpopular in
Birjand ; but in_ spite_of his hereditary
leanings towards TTemocracy he appears
to be a genuine Anglo-phile and goes out
of his way to maintain the most cordial
relations with Flis Majesty’s Consul.
A separate report has been submitted
on the state of affairs in this district con
sequent on the abolition of “ capitula
tions ”.
paragraph 69.
Small 11 lashkars ” of Dost Mohammed’s
men—probably little' more than frontier
detachments—continue to occupy the posts
at Shurab, Jauri, Karvanda, Erindagan
and Gusht along the southern border of
the Sarhad. Pending the struggle which
he now realizes to be inevitable, Dost
Mohammad is doing his best to detach
powerful Yarmohdzai (Damani) tribe
from their flimsy allegiance^ to the
Persians. To this end he is stirring up
enmity between the Yar-mohdzai Sardar,
Jiand, and Khan Sahib Idu Khan who is
now de facto leader of the loyal Rekis.
Vhen the Officer Commanding Sistan
Brigade visited Khwash in May, Jiand com
plained bitterly to him of the preference
shown by the Persians to Idu and the Rekis.
It is understood that Idu receives Rs. 500
personal pay from the Persians, in addition
to the Reki tribal allowances, whereas Jiand
draws Rs. 600 altogether for his tribe and
himself. The Yarmohdzai Sardar is re-
77. Russian Affairs. —Reference para
graph 66.
The Soviet Vice Consul, Comrade Fuks,
accompanied by the Armenian attache,
Yarbekian, proceeded from Sistan to Duz
dap on 10th June to vacate on the Consul’s
behalf the house which had been engaged
by the latter for the hot weather. Cer
tain furniture and other belongings left in
the house by the Consul were taken back
to Sistan.
Nothing has been heard as yet in Duzdap
of the proposal, reported in paragraph 97
of Meshed Consular Diary for Jpne, to
appoint Markoff from Meshed as Soviet
Vice Consul at Duzdap.
78. Reference paragraph 68.
Kousmin, Tounikoff and Shaibani of the
Locust Research Commission returned to
Meshed about 15th May. It appears that
Shaibani alone was deputed by the Minist
ry of Public Works to report on the locust
menace, but that tl*e~*Rii&gians were tacked
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