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14. ^Mr. Schwartzkopf, the American Adviser for the Gendarmerie, has
arrived. He has, as yet, no executive authority and will for the time being remain
in the pay of the American Government. He is a police official, and it is reported
that he is known in the American police as the “ Gang Smasher.”
Aj^poi n tmen ts—Mili ta ry.
15.—(i) Sartip Mustafa Asa, to the Inspection Department of the General
Staff.
(ii) Sarhang Nasrullah Saif to be head of the 3rd Section, IVth Bureau,
General Staff.
(iii) Sarhang Abul Fazl Amini to be 1st Adjutant of the General Staff.
(iv) Sarhang Amidi, Chief of Staff of the 1st Division, to command a brigade
of 1st Division.
(v) Sarhang Shahrukhshahi to be Chief of Staff of 1st Division.
(vi) Sarhang Ahmad Janpulad to command the Ardebil Mixed Brigade.
(vii) Sarhang Ali Shahid Nurai to be C.R.A. of 2nd Division.
Internal Security.
Azerbaijan. (See Summary No. 34/42^ paragraph 12.)
16. His Majesty’s Consul-General at Tabriz has also had reports of Kurdish
lawlessness in Western Azerbaijan. The Jalili tribe is said to have resumed
looting, and in the Mahabad (Sauj Bulagh) district the adherents of the Kurdish
ex-Governor, Amir Assad (see Summa ry No. 32/42, paragraph 10), are causing
anxiety.
Kurdistan.
17. It was reported in Summ ary No. 32/42. paragraph 10, that the Persian
Government were subsidising Hama Rashid to keep order in the Baneh area. In
order to preserve appearances, Hama Rashid’s brother, Amir Qadir, has been
appointed Chief of Amnieh and he will draw pay for a theoretical number of
Kurdish gendarmes who are to supply their own arms. (Deserting Persian
soldiers supplied these arms to the Kurds in the first instance.) It is also reported
that certain other Begzadehs and their relations have been appointed to certain
other posts, such as Bakshdar, Director of Customs, Chief of Police, &c. It is
improbable that they have any qualifications for these posts, and it seems that
this is merely a face-saving method of paying them subsidies to be good. It is
extremely unlikely that the Kurdish gendarmerie or the Kurdish Director of
Customs will interfere, except to facilitate, with the smuggling of Persian wheat
to Iraq.
Fars.
18. Security deteriorated during August. There were hold-ups of lorries
on the Bushire-Shiraz road, drivers were robbed, tyres removed in one case, but
the contents of the lorries left untouched. There has been raiding of crops and
sheep by Qashgai and Boir Ahmadi tribesmen; small gendarmerie posts have been
disarmed, and the tribes appear to be treating the Government forces with some
contempt.
Kerman.
19. His Majesty’s Consul reports that action is being taken to improve the
situation in the Jask area by compelling the sons of the late Mir Barkat to settle
down near old Jask—possibly with a subsidy or some nominal Government
appointment—or to put them under effective restraint. These men are believed
to have been responsible for much of the recent piracy and slave traffic.
Isfahan.
20. There has been a strike of workers in the woollen factories in Isfahan.
These factories are making large quantities of blankets for British troops, but
the strike seems to have no political significance, but to have been organised solely
to secure better conditions for the workers. The strikers have returned to work.