Coll 28/117 ‘Persia. Kerman, Yezd – (Bandar Abbas): Intelligence Summaries.’ [‎65r] (132/517)

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Br i t i ah C 0ri^iT5> t|e ,
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27th April 1^43.
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Sir,
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I have the honour to ro fsx to the oorreapondonce
' y ^a reatiug with your despatch No. 5(269/16/43) aated the 25th
.March 1943, and to report further developments re^ardins-
Hussain Khan Buoha^chi.
2 . As briefly reported in my Diaries for the second
half of March and the first half of April the General Officer
Commanding Gartip Kaifcavual finally decidea to send Sarhang
(Colonel) Yazdanfar Commanding Officer German Garrison, to
Sirjan to try and reach a final settlement of the Hussain .Khan
affair • Whatever may have been the Girt ip* a personal motives,
this was the best possible choice as the Gar hang is an effic-'
lent oif icer trained at Gt ^yr and so far as is Known has not
hitherto been involved in local intrigues. He left for Sir Jan
or April 5th. Ihe Ustandar (Governor—General) gave him over
riding authority over all the local officials.
* Cn April 15th Carlas-iKar (General) Jahanbani arrived
in Kerman to inspect the Kerman Division. V*hen I called on him
the next day, I made a point of emohasilig, in the presence of
Sartip Kaikavusi, the importance which the British Government
attache a to the maintenance of security on the Bandar Aobas road.
He and tne Gar tip visitea Sirjan on ths
as uhay said, a plan ofjeampaign.
following day to draw up,
4* fhus the conditions were very favourable for reaching
a final decision of the Buchanchi question. Not only had a
senior officer* s at .ention been drawn to it, but any interest
the tip hiiiisei f may or ma,v not have had in prolonging un
settled conditions for his own profit vanished with the news of
his transfer wnicharrivea with the Garlashkar.
G«rhang Yazdanfar returned to Kerman on April 2 hth
and at once called at this Consulate. He said he had come to
ti.e conclusion tna t Hussain Khan is not himself a robber, but
tnat other persons h^ve been committing and organizing robberies
m name (i.e. he inclineu to tne view expressed in paragraph
7 fb) of my despatch No.5-2 dated the 6 th March 1943). Those
chiefly responsible ware the local civil officials, and especially
the late Wiie f of the Gendarmerie Sarhang Sarbaz, since dismissed.
He saia he had therefore recommended to the Ustandar that all the
heads of the civil Departments ana the Gendarmerie officers
(including Sarbaz*s Acting successor GarwanMir Hussaini) should
be charged, and that the Ustandar had agreed to this. He added
that the countryside had quietened down, that only one robbery
had oeen committed w: list he was there, uni that the culpr its
had been caught and the property recovered.
^8 r egar ds Hussain Than he was convinced that the man
was still nervous o f the intentions of the British Government
towards him. He revealed that HaJ i Mohammed had not forwarded
to Hussain Khan the assurance I had given him for delivery - for
reasons hitherto unexplained but which I have asxed the Garhang
to investigate. Ihe Sarhang had however himself met Hussain Khan,
at a olace appointed by the latter, and given him ly written
assurance; an d he brought bacx ana delivered to me a reply from
Sir Reader W. Bullard, ".Gy
His Majesty’s Minister,
TEHRAN.
Q.I.h.,
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