'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [‎265r] (534/610)

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Agreement of 1919, which practically had become a dead
letter and an encumbrance. In a proclamation enunciating
the aims and policy of the new Government he accordingly
declared it cancelled, and he hoped by this step to allay public
suspicion that he was acting on behalf of the British. At the
same time he at once requested the help of English advisers
in the finance department, and wished also to engage officeis
for the army. As a matter of policy he proposed to e
some French assistance for less important services and add -
tional Swedish officers for the gendarmerie.
For the moment the Government was protected from Bol
shevik aggression by the British barring t re v ay r
Caspian.
The Military operations in Gilan and along the ' ail P situation and
Rasht road have been narrated on page 84. operas
the situation had been threatening. The Bolsheviks had b Bo] it
active all along the Caspian littoral and raiding of rebds Jangal^com-
had penetrated inland into the mountains Tunakabun pa
into rebel hands, and the movement was extending into Mazamlq
ran. Meanwhile an Arab rebellion had ro^en ou - ^ ^
tamia and the British Line of Commumcatmns to Baghdad
had been severed. The insurrection spread ^che^ked untiUhe
end of July when Colonel Starooselsky, e Kei | l ' Persian
the Persian Cossacks who had been appomted by the Persian
Government to command all their troops inc o He oc-
in the Caspian Provinces, led a force ^f^tance and
cupied Barfarush and Meshed-i-Sar with shght resistance
cleared the province of rebels. The moral effect of this succes s
1 The acceptance of the principle that the Ageement sV>ffid
be laid before the Majlis had settled its fate wffich was alremly
hanging in the balance. It had been negotiated secrettywith
Vusuq-ud-Bauleh’s Cabinet and sudden y ann _, ., • nce p.
and the world as a ‘fait accompli. ® ™° ement by popular
tion consequently militated against its Vnann ud Bauleh
consent, although the strong position of
backed by the British Legation had P 10( j , '[ p ers i a
opposition to it. The British troops had entered Pema
for military reasons after the Russian ceiac e ^ Kazvin in
Turks and Germans; the military authoritms at Kazv^m
contrast to their Russian predecessors consis y
from any interference in the internal concerns ^ eiice
(except in the case of the Jangalis) but the ac onpo-
was a sufficiently strong restraining influence q
sition to a policy endorsed by the British Lega ion.