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Rials.
Expenditure —
Expenses for collection ......
Expenses of Railway Offices to 22-9-38 . . .
Expenses for construction of railway to 22-9-38 .
Expenses for iron smelting at Shemshak and survey
of mines ........
Expenses for students in Europe ....
Expenses for cement factory An East India Company trading post. , repairs Zahedan line and
building of Noshahr port .....
37,440,571-8
10,795,189-4
2,035,712,483-2
12,726,333-2
11,452,142-9
19,049,047-0
Total Expenses
Cash
2,127,175,767-6
2,328,003-0
2,129,503,770-6
and £3,416,628-1-6 from £ Reserves.
Expenses for Shemshak to Shahrivar 1317 (22-9-38) Rials 318,962-65 of which Rails
100,000 refunded.
F. A. G. G. 25-1-39.
W
[Received on 5th February 1939, with Political Secretary's letter No. 3,
dated 19th January 1939.^
("Enclosure in weekly letter No. 3, dated 19th January 1939, from Secretary,
Political and Secret Department, India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. .]
Enclosure in Foreign Office covering letter, dated the 13th January 1939.
Memorandum from His Majesty’s Representative, Tehran, to His
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs, No.
395, dated the 14th December 1938, transmitting a copy of Shiraz
Secret Despatch No. 22 of 21st November, 1938, on the subject of
Iran Internal Situation.
Enclosure in Foreign Office, covering letter, dated the 13th January 1939.
Despatch from British Consulate, Shiraz, to the British Legation,
Tehran, No. 22 (528/S.), dated the 21st November 1938.
I have the honour to report that the army in Ears appears once again
to be slipping back into the unsatisfactory state revealed in its most extreme
form by the Dowlatshahi scandals of 1936-37.
2. Sartip Amidi who was brought down to restore order at first showed
himself to be a strict disciplinarian and purged the district of all those
officers implicated in the corruption of the old system.
3. This officer, however, like so many Iranian officials, has not been
able to maintain the high principles with which he began his career in
Shiraz, and it is reported from reliable sources that his severity has now been
mitigated by the bribes of his subordinate officers.
4. The results of this state of affairs are already appearing. The
standard of food and clothing for the conscripts has fallen and there are
many cases of desertion. Moreover, these continue in spite of the extreme
severity with which those captured are punished; in a recent case the
deserter was found dead in the barracks, apparently as the result of a beat
ing, the day following his capture.
5. This state of affairs has little immediate effect on the life of the
people. For them the condition of the Military Road Guards (Amnieh) is
far more serious. The members of this force have always made a habit of
commandeering the supplies they required from the villages near which they