مجموعة ١٢٠/٢٨(٢) "بلاد فارس. الأهواز - اليوميات القنصلية" [و‎‎٥] (٢٢٤/٩)

Colonel Noel U still waiting for a reply
at)out the new lease of Hamiaieh, and it seems unlikely that
he will get a satisfactory one unless things chang ’ 1 con
siderably in the capital. He has discharged his^Indian staff
under one month's notice, and is in great straits lor ready
money, though he hopes to ha'/e plenty of money uhet: --he
harvest comes in in three months#
Mg), Apart from one or two petty robberies by Bahmai
bad characters the tribes have been quiet. ?or the first
time for many years all the principal Kuh Gilu tribal
leaders came to Rehbehan, where the Consul-General, who
happened to be passing through Behbehan at the time, saw
most of them on the 15th January. They all appeared to be
on very good terms with the local military governor Colonel
pars-tabas, who showed himself well acquainted with all their
complicated relationships, aspirations, and quarrels.
Their chief anxiety seemed to be to get their rations of
cl#th, tea, and sugar from the government, and in this
Colonel pars-tabar supported them: though it seems quite
clear that the chiefs were thinking of making a profit out
of these rations rather than issuing them to their tribesmen.
Most of them went out of their way to protest their complete
loyalty to the Persian CTOvernment. The principal chiefs who
came to see the Consul-General were Abdullah Zarghampour,
Muhammad Hussein Zarghami Tayyibi, Muhammad Ali Khalili,
Malik Mansur Bashti, Iskandar Charami, ^Muzaffar Anya i,
Taj Muhammad Bahmai, an’d Zargham Ariya'i.
The temporary and quite unofficial government
of the Bakhtiaris by Jehanshah bamLam and Abul-hasim Bakhtiar
at Izeh still continues, and the two young men are doing
all they can to secure government sanction for this de facto
arrangement. It seems unlikely that they will succeed,
though the government, pre-occupied with other thingo, have
said nothing definite. Colonel Af shar-oghl®u, who visited
Izeh on this matter on the 16th January, took the^respons-
ibility of telling them to carry on at present. r ut there
are signs that certain kalantars, who were delighted to
receive a few presents to start with, changed their attitude
completely when the tv;# governors endeavoured to collect
taxe-s from them.
PARTIBb.
( 15 ), a young newspaper-editor from Tehran named
Zarrabi has been endeavouring to revive the Adalat party, and
the new SaTadat party has spent some effort in recommending
various notables for membership «f the electoral committee
which is to run the provincial elections in P hruary. It
apoears that three persons, Haji bheikh Ali Ansaipyy Haji
beyyid Muhammad Hussein Alavi, and beyyid Hussein ^mam, are
to sit on that committee by more or le^s general consent:
the first being a mujtahid, the second a notary piblic,
the third an advocate, ^he other three seats on the committee
will probably be assigned to local merchants but '-here is a
good deal of difference #f oninion as to who will be the most
suitable persons to safeguard the interests of the public
as against the officials.
T-VA CHAT ION.
(17), Arrangements for the orderly evacuation of all
the British troops in this area have proceeded smoothly and
/a considerable