ملف ٣٤٤٣\ ١٩١٤ الجزء ٤ "بلاد فارس: شؤون شرق بلاد فارس؛ عملاء ألمان" [و‎‎١‎٤‎٢] (٣٦٨/٢٩٠)

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Pusht-l*&uh.
Lurietan.
The situation in Persia and Afgh
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2nd June, 1916.
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in the last three monthc, ie graphically eho^Ti on the
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Bp h>rc^f 1 ~ UB,>laJ>i General Erratoff hr.e from ito arrlral
eneured the correct attitude of the
Persian Oorornment. It has entirely quelled all attempts
at armed resistance !>y the so-oalled ’■Katinnaiist* or
German sympathiring party in the north and west and in tne
centre of Persia as far south as Isfahan. It has up to
the present repulsed the invasion of Persia from .tiic west
by Turkish troops having for their objective the raising
of the population against the two Allied Powers and a
possible Junction with the Afghan forces.
In addition to the above broad achievements,
Baratoff*s force, by its advance beyond Kerwanehah has
severed the communications of the Germans and Turks in
Persia and Afghanistan pnd what is of eonsequenoe to our
forces on the Tigris, has induced the Vail of Pusht-i-kuh
to maintain, what may be called (since the passage of
Gamall’s llussian Cossacks through his country, and the
reception of a British medical officer at his camp) a
benevolent neutrality•
A detachment of SOO sabres is successfully
maintaining order in the neighbourhood of Burujird and
there have been no reporte of trouble from Parisian, a
province which has always been regarded as a source of
trouble and danger. The fact that the notorious German
Consul at Kermanshah, BChunemann, and three German offleert
were captured at Khorremabad, in the heart of the Bur
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