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afield. With the exception of five small detachments, the Persian forces are still
confined to Rezaieh by the Russians. The Persian Government is pressing the
Russians to allow the posting of mixed detachments of Russian and Persian
^roops up to a total of twenty to protect villages in the affected areas.
Fars.
13. Ihe Boir Ahmadi are still raiding and are a cause of unrest and anxiety
111 b °fh .Fars and Isfahan provinces. They have a disturbing effect on
Bakhtiari and Qashgai and other Kuhgilu tribes. It is fully realised by the
Persian authorities that they must he dealt with by force.' (See Summarv
No. 24/42, paragraph 14.)
Bakhtiari.
14. Nadir Quli Bakhtiari has surrendered and is now in Isfahan. (See
Summary No. 21/42, paragraph 13.)
British Interests.
Transport.
lo. Ihe U.K.C.C. is taking over, with effect from the 8th July, the work of
the hast Persian Auxiliary I ransport Service in carrying supplies for Russia
from Zahedan to Meshed. They are putting 150 lorries on the road at once and
are prepared to increase their transport if required.
16. ^ The General Officer Commanding, Tenth Army, arrived by air in Tehran
on the 23rd June. On the 24th June, accompanied by the military attache, he
went to Tabriz at the invitation of General Melnik, commanding Russian forces
in North-West Persia. He travelled to Tabriz and back in a Russian plane. The
general officer commanding returned to Tehran on the 27th June.
Communications.
17. During the past fortnight there has been more interference with British
military telephone lines in the Kermanshah area. Some of the acts, such as
causing a short-circuit by binding a loop round two military wires, are clearly
sabotage. There have, in addition, been ordinary thefts of wire by villagers.
Czechoslovak Interests.
18. General Sergei Ingrs, Minister of National Defence, accompanied by
Lieutenant-Colonel Kalla, military attache in London, arrived by air in Tehran
on the 24th June. They have proceeded to Russia.
Russian Interests.
19. Two parties of entomologists are leaving shortly for locust research
work in the south and west. Their routes are as follows :—■
First party : Isfahan-Bushire-Bandar Abbas-Kerman and Zahedan.
Second party : Isfahan-Bushire-Ahwaz-Irano-Iraqi frontier.
They are working in collaboration with the British Imperial Institute of
Entomology.
Greek Interests.
20. The Greek Charge d’Affaires has received instructions from his Govern
ment to call up for military service all Greek nationals of the 1914-21 classes
who are fit for military service. He has been instructed to seek the assistance of
the Persian Government in rounding-up any objectors. His task is rendered
more difficult by the absence of Greek representation in Persia in the past and
the consequent lack of complete registers of his nationals. He has also been
instructed to ask the Persian Government to register as Greek subjects all the
Dodecanese in Persia, who up till now have been Italian subjects.