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11. General Humayuni has now embarked on phase 3 of his Arab
isai mament operation by despatching two companies of infantry, one machine
on 11 S? m P an ^. 0I ? e bakery of 75-mm. guns from Khorramshahr to Pul-i-Nau.
ihe bheiks of Mahaissen, Deris, ISaser, Bahmanshir and Abadan have been called
and have agreed to surrender rifles. Phase 4, against the Arabs of Shadgan, is
eing undertaken concurrently and a battalion of infantry has been despatched to
Gor-Gor. Phase 5, against the Arabs of Khalajabad and Hindian, was due to
begin on the 23rd January.
Mekran.
. . ^ A fa ' s ® . r ™^ r to the effect that Kahn Sahib Idu Reki and his son
Murad Khan Keki had been arrested in Shiraz and Tehran respectively for their
supposed complicity in the Farrukhzad murder case led to the desertion of some
Keki gendarmes and their officer from Kerman. About 2,000 Reki families also
prepared to migrate to British Baluchistan. The General Officer Commanding,
Kerman Garrison, accompanied by two Reki sardars, went to Khwash and was
successful in allaying the fears of the Rekis. The situation is returning to
normal. &
British Interests.
13. A detachment of the Arab Gulf R.A.F. levies recently mutinied at Jask.
Thirty-one out of fifty-nine men deserted with their arms and 5,000 rounds of
ammunition. A party of Assyrian levies has been flown to Jask and the disband-
1 m 6 n t of the remainder of the detachment (most of whom are believed to be
! Persians) has been effected.
14. Major-General W. A. K. Fraser, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.V.O., M.C.,
military attache, left Tehran on the 27th January for London on d’utv for a’liaison
visit to the War Office.
15. Three Persian students have left Tehran under the auspices of the
British Council to continue their studies in the United Kingdom.
Chinese Interests.
16. Colonel Huang Tzi An has arrived in Tehran to replace Colonel Tang
le-Hang, who will be leaving shortly for China. The new military attache was
commissioned in 1923 and is a graduate of the War Academy of Nanking. He
has held numerous staff appointments, mostly on the operations directorate of the
National Military Council.
American Interests.
17. The American Ambassador, Mr. Leland Morris, has been recalled and
will be leaving shortly. The United States Government has asked for the
agreement of the Persian Government to the appointment of Mr. Wallace Murray.
Polish Interests.
18.
was :—
The number of
civilian Poles
in Persia
on the 15th
January, 1945,
Men.
Women
Children.
Total.
In Tehran
405
1,357
401
2,163
Isfahan
70
431
494
995
Ahwaz
176
715
319
1,210
651
2,503
1,214
4,368
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