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Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ [38v] (76/807)
The record is made up of 1 file (401 folios). It was created in 11 Feb 1937-29 Jul 1942. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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(v) Commandant Leleu, military attache, Order of Humayun, 4th Class.
(vi) M. Emile Vernazza, commercial attache, Order of Humayun, 4th Class.
(vii) M. Marcel Bleuzet, attache, Order of Humayun, 5th Class.
4. Civil A viation.
(i) A German aeroplane arrived from Berlin in Tehran on the 18th August
en route for Kabul. His Excellency Allac Navaz Khan, Afghan Ambassador in
Berlin, and the German Minister were among the passengers. The machine has,
it is said, left Kabul for China. The route is not known.
(ii) The Bagdad Times reports that arrangements for the Polish air service
(which at present terminates at Haifa) to be extended to Bagdad and Tehran
as from January next have been made. The Imperial Airways superintendent
in Bagdad is said to have confirmed this report.
5. Communications.
(A) Railways. —Construction trains on the southern section of the Trans-Iranian
Railwajr have arrived from Tehran at Anjilabad (133 kilom. from Tehran and
24 kilom. from Saveh). Only 47 kilom. remain between this point and Qum.
(B) Roads. —(i) It is reported that the Iranian Government intend to repair
the route Isfahan-Khunsar-Gulpaigan-Khumain and to extend it to meet the
southern section of the Trans-Iranian Railway at a point south of Burujird
(probably Do Rud).
The same source reports that the existing service roads from Burujird and
Khurramabad to Lot 8 will be kept up for communication between these two
towns and the railway.
(ii) Traffic is said to be fairly frequent on the Trebizond-Tabriz road.
About one-third of the goods carried are of Iranian origin.
Private cars can cross the Turco-Iranian frontier from Turkey and proceed
to Tabriz, but the lorries of the Turkish Government bus and lorry service may
not do so and must tranship their goods and passengers.
The road is said to be in fair condition except for an unmetalled portion
between Erzerum and the frontier.
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6 . Iranian Army.
Reference Intelligence Summary No. 16 (current), paragraph 6 . The
delegation has left for Istanbul.
(ii) The manoeuvres for the Luristan and Khuzistan brigades have been
cancelled.
(iii) Reference Intelligence Summary No. 16 (current), paragraph 5 (ii).
Reinforcements amounting to one battalion of infantry, one squadron of cavalry
and one battery of artillery have been despatched from the 4th division to
Sauj Bulagh. A quantity of ammunition has recently been sent from Tehran
to the same destination.
No traffic is allowed to proceed by night on the Senneh-Saqqiz road, and
by day all vehicles must carry an escort of two gendarmes.
7. Change of Place Names.
A Tabriz consular report states that Khiav (Degree Sheet I.N., Square 3.C.)
is, in future, to be known as Mishkin.
G. D. PYBUS, Lieutenant-Colonel,
Military A ttache.
Tehran, August 28, 1937.
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Copies of intelligence summaries compiled on a fortnightly basis by the Military Attaché at the British Legation in Tehran (Gilbert Douglas Pybus, Herbert John Underwood, William A K Fraser), and received by the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. via the Foreign Office. Many of the summaries are preceded by cover sheets and India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. notes sheets, the latter frequently containing handwritten notes giving a précis of the summary’s contents. The summaries cover a broad range of information, including: the activities of the Shah of Iran, Reza Shah Pahlavi, the Crown Prince, and other members of the royal family; activities of the Iranian Government and its officials; activities, organisation and strength of the Iranian army and Iranian air force; communications and transport, including wireless radio, and civil aviation routes into and out of Iran; British interests in Iran, including oil companies, specifically the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company; foreign interests in Iran; the Iranian press, focussing specifically on its criticism of foreign press and actions; commercial activities in Iran, including mining and factory An East India Company trading post. production; tribal matters, including those in the Bahmai and Baluchistan provinces, and the Qashqai; place name changes in Iran. Proceedings prior to and during the Second World War are also covered in the summaries. These include: German activity in Iran (commercial, political, propaganda, Nazi organisation); movements of peoples; public opinion in Iran in response to events in Europe in 1940; the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in August 1941; the abdication of Reza Shah Pahlavi; public opinion in Iran in the wake of the Anglo-Soviet invasion and occupation; social unrest and anti-British feeling.
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The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 403; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- front, front-i, 2r:113v, 115r:123v, 125r:139r, 140r:143v, 145r:148v, 150r:197r, 198v:243r, 244r:309v, 311r:348r, 349r:403v, back
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