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Economic.
8. A new regulation for the monopoly of agriculture has been issued by
Dr. Millspaugh. It supersedes the Stabilisation of Prices Regulation No. 140,
and is framed to bring under one control the collection, transport, storage and
issue of grain, the control of bakeries, and the functions previously performed by
^ the Price Stabilisation Department.
Tribal Affairs.
Khuzistan.
. 9. The Acting Minister for War informed the British Military Attache
that up to the 20th November 1,000 rifles had been collected by the columns
engaged in disarming the Arabs. One column only, he said, had encountered
slight opposition. He said that he hoped the operations would be concluded
within a month, as the Ministry for War had no desire to lock up so many troops
in that area. (A recent report gives the strength of the Khuzistan Division and
its attached troops as 7,555 all ranks.)
Kurdistan.
10. Hama Rashid, according to information supplied to the British Military
Attache by the Acting Minister for War, surrendered himself on the 18th November
to the Kaimakam of Hallabjeh and the Chief of Police of Penjwin. Hama
Rashid is said to have proposed the following terms : —
(i) His future place of residence to be either Kirkuk or Suleimanieh.
(ii) The Persian Government should not hold against him any acts of his
subsequent to “ the events of Shahrivar ” (the entry of British and
Russian troops into Persia).
(iii) No acts of his tribe subsequent to his separation from them to be laid at
his door.
No mention is made of extradition and the above terms could not be said to
be suitable from the Persian Government’s point of view. Meanwhile, negotia
tions between the two Governments are in progress in Bagdad. Another agree
ment signed, prior to Hama Rashid’s surrender, by Colonel Saqafi, the Persian
Liaison Officer, and Sayyid Sidqi, the Iraqi Liaison Officer, provides, inter alia,
for the liberation of the'fifteen Jaf tribesmen now in prison, a full enquiry into
frontier incidents where the inhabitants have suffered losses from raiders,
negotiations between the two Governments for the handing over of Hama Rashid
and the provision of safe-conduct for such of his followers who submit to the
Persian authorities and desire to return to Persian territory.
Russian Interests.
11. A small party of Russian military has arrived at Gunabad. It is
believed that they intend to make a reconnaissance of the road Gunabad-Firdaus-
Tebas-Yezd.
French Interests.
12. General de Gaulle arrived in Tehran on the 26th November en route to
Moscow.
Tehran. 2§th November, 1944.