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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [64v] (128/749)
The record is made up of 1 file (373 folios). It was created in 9 Jul 1942-8 Feb 1946. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: 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. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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5.
Ihe retail price of rationed sugar has been fixed as follows :—
Per kilo
Rials.
American soft sugar
44
Indian soft sugar
42-9
Foreign lump sugar ...
48-4
Locally made lump sugar
46-2
T ransport.
6. The already critical transport situation has been complicated by a
Russian demand for 1,000 civilian lorries to be contracted to the Soviet Trans
portation Directorate. These are required for the carriage of lease-lend supplies to
Russia from railheads in Persia, and the demand is necessitated by the reduction
of the amount of Russian military transport in Persia owing to much of it having
been sent to the front. Th^number of lorries required by the Russians can only
be obtained at a heavy cost to Persian civil transport requirements, and even
then only if tYr&s are provided It is understood that about 1,000 tyres are to be
supplied to the Russians from British military reserves.
A ppointments — Civil.
ritfcein Ala (M.A. 11; F.O. 7). to be Minister of the Court.
Persian Forces.
Police.
8. To compensate for the high cost of living an extra allowance of 90 rials
a month has been sanctioned for the police force to the 21st March, 1943, when
the situation will be reviewed.
9. Mr. Timmerman, the American Adviser to the Persian Police, has as yet
achieved but little. He is waiting to see whether the Persian Government wall
give him the executive powers for which he asks and without which, he says, he
will not stay.
Gendarmerie.
10. Colonel Schwarzkopf, the American Adviser to the Gendarmerie, has
likewise effected nothing concrete. He has travelled widely to investigate existing
conditions and has made plans for the reorganisation of the force and the improve
ment of conditions of service. An essential reform is the provision of rations to
gendarmerie posts, which now have to feed themselves as best they can from the
nearest village, often some miles away. As their pay is entirely inadequate to
buy sufficient food at the present high prices, they are forced to dishonest
practices, and as food is scarce more time is spent in obtaining it than in their
duties. For the distribution of rations to gendarmerie posts transport is required,
which is not available.
A ppointments — Military.
11. —(i) Sartip Muhammad Hussein Amidi, to be Military Governor of
Tehran, vice Sipahbod Amir Ahmadi, appointed Minister for War.
(ii) Sartip Zarrabi, to command the 5th (South-Western) Division, vice
Sartip Tajbaksh, relieved.
Internal Security.
Pars.
12. Fars remains generally quiet. Nasir Qashgai is still angling for terms.
The Prime Minister has agreed to send to him and his brother, Khosrow, a written
guarantee of life and a promise of fair treatment as regards their lands. His
Majesty’s Consul at Shiraz has also been authorised to give written assurance to
Nasir and Khosrow that British authorities will respect their lives and property
provided they conform to certain conditions regarding their place of future
residence.
Kerman.
13. On the 1st December a convoy of empty lorries on the Kerman-Bandar
Abbas road was attacked in the Guhra Pass by a band under Ali Muhammad Ali
of Yaz Siyah. Of six gendarmes travelling in a lorry, three were killed and two
wounded. Their rifles were carried off by the robbers.
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Copies of intelligence summaries prepared on a weekly basis by the Military Attaché at the British Legation in Tehran, and received by the 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. via the Foreign Office. The file’s contents follow on chronologically from Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3503). The summaries cover a broad range of information relating to wartime conditions in Iran: the activities of the Iranian government, including political instabilities, the resignation and appointment of governments and government ministers; the financial situation in Iran, including the reappointment in 1942 and subsequent economic policies of Arthur Chester Millspaugh, who was recruited to organise the government’s finances; internal security in Iran, including increasing political unrest in the north of the country (specifically in Azerbaijan) brought about by a growing Soviet presence, wartime propaganda, and the activities of the Tudeh Party of Iran; concerns over wheat production and supply, including reports of food shortages and famine conditions in 1942/43; the Iran military, including its movements, activities and appointments; foreign interests (primarily USA, British, and Soviet); reports of the numbers of Polish refugees in camps in Tehran, Isfahan and Ahwaz [Ahvāz].
The file contains a single item in French, being a copy of the declaration of the Congrès National d’Azerbaidjan (Nation Congress of Azerbaijan, f 359).
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- 1 file (373 folios)
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The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 375; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- front, front-i, 2r:52v, 54r:104v, 106r:110v, 112r:192r, 193r:241v, 242v:261v, 262v:273r, 275r:339v, 341r:358v, 360r:360v, 362r:363r, 365r:369v, 370v:371r, 372v:374v, back
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