Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [‎135v] (270/749)

6 . 513 cadets were recently commissioned from the Officers' Training
School and were distributed to arms as follows :—
Infantry
Cavalry
Artillery
Engineers
Signals
182
96
34
18
27
Quarter-Master - General's
services
Air Force...
Medical
Ordnance services
77
34
5
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The intake for the new term will be considerably less than formerly am
not exceed 200 . Entrance will be by examination.
7. A copy of the decree referred to in Summary No. 35, paragraph 11,
whereby the Shah ordained that the General Staff should in future be responsible
to the Minister for War is attached as Appendix IT.
Internal Security.
Fars.
8 . There has been a meeting at Ardekan between the Minister for War and
Nasir and Khosrow Qashgai, at which Abdullah Zarghampur of the Boir Ahmadi
was present. Nasir handed over four machine guns captured from the Persian
army and promised to surrender certain other Persian Government arms, but not
rifles. Various promises were also made. Khosrow went to Shiraz after the
meeting, but reports available up to the present do not indicate that Nasir showed
any intention of leaving tribal territory. • Since the Persian forces are still too
demoralised to justify an ultimatum to Nasir, the negotiations on both sides were
r presumably of a temporising character. Meanwhile, discussions have also been
taking place between the Minister for War and Qavam ul Mulk as regards future
0 policy. For the immediate future and until the Persian forces are in a fit state to
take action it does not amount to much more than that attempts should be made to
^undermine Nasir’s influence among the tribes and to prevent other tribes from
i joining the hostile confederation. As it is Nasir’s object that either he or his
brother should be permanently retained as the official head of the Qashgai con
federation or even of all the tribes of Fars, it is probable that for some time to
come his aim will be to prove that he can control the tribes, and this may result in
a decrease of lawlessness. A body of the Qashgai is said to be co-operating with a
column of Persian troops who have been sent to act against brigands, reported to
be Boir Ahmadi, who have been active in the neighbourhood of Dasht Arjin.
Kuh i Gain.
9. There is considerable unrest in Kuh i Gain territory from Janiki down
to the Gach Saran area, mainly due to the fact that there is no Government or
recognised tribal authority in the whole area.
Russian Affairs.
10 . Between the 15th August and the 11 th September 5,362 tons of Aid to
Russia supplies were delivered to the Soviet authorities by the Meshed-Zahidan
route.
11 . Major-General Kargin has succeeded Major-General Koroliov as chief
of the Soviet Transportation Directorate. Fie has been recently promoted.
Chinese Affairs.
12 . Arrangements had been made for the despatch by the Zahidan-Meshed
route of a limited quantity of lease-lend supplies for China, on the understandiim
that' the Soviet authorities had agreed to the onward transport of these through
Turkestan. Convoys amounting to 520 trucks had already been despatched from
Zahidan to be handed over to the Soviet authorities at Meshed or Turbat i
Haidari, but the Soviet Government has refused to take them over on the grounds
that they have as yet come to no agreement with the Chinese Government. The
convoys are to return to India.
Tehran, 27th September, 1943.