'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [‎46r] (96/610)

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money to save their estates from confiscation and m some cases
kidnanned and held up to ransom, while small owners were
Haxed P 10 krans per “ Kuti ” of rice. Control of the water for
the irrigation of Gilan was assumed by the Jangalis and water
had never before been so equitably distributed and well adm “^-
tered. A judicial court was instituted at Fumen, and,
dictn, attained a reputation for incorruptibility so that
people preferred to go from Rasht out to Fumen and have therr
cases dealt with in the Jangall court rather ^J 111 ^
lawcourts in Rasht, which were a hy-word for c ° U { _
Schools also were established in Fumen which were much better
than any under the Persian Government administration.
On the outbreak of the Russian revolution, Kuchik Khan
was quick to seize the opportunity to collect arm ^ t *
tion from the revolutionary Russian army, which began to
stream down the road to Enzah to evacuate ^ elf ^ ^
and gladly co-operated with a Bolshevik Committee at Enzalr
to facihtate the evacuation.
Recruits rapidly came to the Jangal and about 20 German
Austrian and Turkish officers ex -P rlsoners f ° n f
whom had come from Petrovsk and some ^m Central Asia
vid Meshed, set to work to tram and organize them. While
Kuchik Khan was Officer Commanding troops in traming
Gurab Zarmakh, HajI Ahmad was m charge of the Treas y
and War Office at Kasma.
The position of a Governor General, bereft of ^s s ian sup-
nort had become untenable and was vacant. The P ^
Governor was ordered to leave Rasht and the - anga^s ega
+o take over the Government departments and police, in
December 1917 »Amir AeMyir (No. f)
f Chanter VIII) of Khalkhal came at their invitation and was
2Sed l Governor General without the -neton the
Tehran Government, and the Jangahs m turn senta Governor
to Khalkhal. On the departure of the Russians from K
Persia the Jangalis directed their hostility against the ent y
of the British from Mesopotamia, and violent attacks on re
Britain were published in the Jangali newspaper.
i Bv these methods the Jangalis were reckoned to have amassed an income
°' »ev,r entered until
r .i Mamalik his brother had come to mediate with the Jangalis on
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and he returned to Khalkhal in March.