Coll 28/8 ‘Persia; Diaries; Sistan & Kain, April 1927 – 1933’ [‎148r] (306/434)

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Oiary o! His Majesty’s Consul, Sistan and Kain, for the month of February 1929.
Movements oe His Majesty’s Constj-
lah Officers.
11 . His Majesty’s Consul left Sistan
for Duzdap on 17th February and returned
on the 28th, having visited Mirjawa from
23rd to 25th February. Separate reports
have been submitted regarding the visit
of Host Mohammed to Dnzdap and othsr
affairs concerning the Sarhad and Persian
Baluchistan.
Persian Officials.
12. Reference paragraph I.
As a result of representations made to
Tehran by the Committee of Officials,
orders have been received that for the
purpose of attending receptions at foreign
Consulates, heads of departments will
rank in the 9th grade within their
districts.
Persian Military Affairs.
13. Movements of Troops. —About 300
cavalry of the Bahrami (Meshed) Brigade
arrived in Sistan from Baluchistan during
the month. Fifty sowars under a Naib
were detailed almost at once for patrolling
the Afghan frontier. The squadron of
Zabuii cavalry, which had for some time
formed the sole garrison of Sistan, marched
for Buzdap on 26th February.
14 31ilitary Intelligence. —Reference
paragraph 8 .
Syed Jalal Khan’s appointment as
Vice Consul, Chakansur is merely nominal,
he is on special duty on behalf of the
General Staff at Tehran. He is the same
as the Naib Syed Jalal Shah mentioned in
Sistan diary for Novemer-Hecember 1928,.
paragraph 127, as having interviewed the
Trade Assistant at Huzdap on the subject
of operations against Host Mohammed^
favourite of the lat 6 Finance Agent, Rahi,
and now employed in the garage of the
Bombay Motor and Cycle Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at
Huzdap, is in Soviet pay and has been
commissioned to perform a particular
service, the nature of which is not yet
known. Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. 55 (Rs. 150) are known
to have been paid by the Soviet Consulate
during the month to his mother and sister
who are in Sistan.
(ii) The Commercial Secretary at the
Soviet Consulate, Zahskinchieff, has tvnce
visited Huzdap during the month ostensib
ly to receive certain consignments of
articles for personal use from Calcutta.
(iii) Other Huzdap agents include the
local photographer, Syed Mohammad ; an
Indian shopkeeper named Shamsher Singh,
and Ali Asghar Yezdi a dealer in curios.
The Armenian Misac lias given up the
house rented by him at Huzdap and is re
ported to he coming to Sistan. At
Huzdap the Soviet representatives now
put up at tne garage of Hassan Ali.
(iv) Besides money, quantities of
Moscow,’radiograms have been sent by
car recently to Huzdap. Zahskinschieff
on his journeys to and from Huzdap in
variably talks to the Amnieh guards at
the different posts and gBes them money.
Afghan Affairs.
16, Messages by aeroplane from the
Shah to ex King Amanullah. —Sarhang
Murteza Khan, Frontier Commissioner in
Sistan, left secretly on 4th February for
Meshed. On 13th he came down from
Meshed in a Junker monoplane, circled
over Sistan as if thinking of landing and
went on to Huzdap where he spent the
night. Next mor, ing he left again in the
same aeroplane ostensibly for Meshed,
but really (as was afterwards ascertained)
for Kandahar.
Russian Affairs. Mohd. Husain Khan, son of the
7 7 ^ . Governor of Chakansur, who arrived in
15. Soviet Propaganda and Espionage. Sistan a few days ago with his family
—Reference paragraph 3. f rom Kandahar via Quetta and Huzdap,
The Russians seem nowadays to be pay- says that he was in Kandahar when
ing particular attention to Huzdap. The Sarhang Murteza Khan landed. The Sar-
following facts have been noted :— hang w r ent straight to the Citadel where
(T) A youth of lax morals named he remained three days as the guest of
Muhammed Khan Vossoughzadeh, Amanullah, and then flew back to Persia*