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7. The Anti-Hoarding Department announces that 2,000 charges of offences
against anti-hoarding laws have been laid before the courts. There have been
forty-eight convictions and 127 acquittals.
8. In the autumn of 1943 certain measures were taken by Russian and
British autnorities to deal with an expected invasion of locusts from Indian
Baluchistan and from Arabia. For this purpose the Government of India
provided a mechanised battalion of Indian infantry and G.H.Q., Mideast,
lent the Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan Frontier Force. The former was located near the Persian
Gulf close to the Indian frontier and the latter in the Bandar Abbas-Jask area^
In addition, a flight of R.A.F. machines, specially fitted for the spraying oT
swarms, was allotted to Task and ten Russian aircraft to the area nearer the
Indian frontier, to operate from Jiwani (G-41 N. (1941) B. 5248). As, however,
later conditions showed that an invasion from India was unlikely, in December
the Soviet aircraft and Soviet specialists returned to Russia and the Indian
| infantry battalion was withdrawn to India. The Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan Frontier Force
will remain in the Bandar Abbas-Jask area for some time longer.
9. The following statistics regarding education in Persia were given by
the Minister of Education at a recent ceremony where the Shah was present: —
(i) Number of schools in Persia—Primary 2,392
Secondary ... ... 267
(ii) Number of pupils who received certificates during the
past year from primary schools 17,158
(iii) Number of pupils who presented themselves for the final
examination at secondary schools ... ... ... 26,501
A pfointments — Civil.
10. (i) Kazim Sayyah to be Director-General of the Ministry of Industry;
(ii) Ali Maulavizadeh to be Farmandar of Burujird;
(iii) Sartip Mirjalali to be Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry
of Industry and Commerce;
(iv) Baqir Kazenn (F.O. 105; M.A. 142) to be Persian Minister in
Sweden;
(v) Mr. Pixley (American adviser) to be Director-General of Accounts
and Audit.
Corrigendum .—In Summary No. 4, paragraph 3 (ii), the appointment of
Abdul Vahid should be Bakshdar and not Farmandar.
Addendum.—In Summary No. 4, paragraph 3 (i), add at end—in addition
to his other duties.
Tehran, fSth February, 1944.