مجموعة ١١١/٢٨(٢) "بلاد فارس. كرمانشاه - يوميّات سياسية." [و‎‎١‎٢] (١٥٠/٢٣)

ETTWOMIC (k CCMviSHClAL:
14. Business during; February wa
scale owing to the roads beine ^' 1 ^ ^7 .sndv/>
the Bazaar were from 13 to 24;.
on a ver} ^educed
7 rc.tes in
BRITISH li'TTERESTS:
15. H.M. Consul proceeded to SOTANDAJ on February 1 st
and returned to Kermanshah on February 3rd^
16. Captain Pritchard, Area Hirings Officer (c-f* Jan
Diary para 27) returned from Hamadan to Kermanshah on February
1st and left for Bagdad on February 23rd. After that date no
British Army personnel remained in Kermanshah area.
17. On the nigh-t of February 5th, 4,200 ft. of copper
telephone wire belonging to the Kermanshah Petroleum Co. v/ere
stolen on the outskirts of the town, the third such theic wirh
dm 40 days. As a result of energetic action by the Company-s
own personnel (the Police and Gendarmerie having completely
failed to trace either the thieves or the stolen property) the
wire, together with a quantity of former British Army copper
telephone wire, was discovered in the bazaar in the process of
being melted down and txie gang responsible were arrested,-
18 0 Mr and Mrs Barr an of Messrs. A.I.C.G*, Tehran
arrived at Kermanshah from Bagdad on February 26th and left for
Tehran on February 28th.
AMERICAN INTERESTS:
19 . Col. Field, American Adviser to^the Persian Army
in Kermanshah, KhOrramabad and °anandao? left for Tehran on
February 23th en route for Car
2 ®.SOVIET INTERESTS:
20. On the evening of February 23rd a reception was he
at the Soviet Consulate to celebrate Red Army pay, aouended^ oy
the Governor-General and leading Persian officials and notaoj.es,
the ‘Iraqi and British Consuls, local newspapers editors and
members of the British and American communities.
(Sd) AF.Y.DAVlAo
H.M. Consul>
British Consulate,
KERMANSHAH,
March 13th, 1946.
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