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Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ [86r] (171/807)
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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13. Security.
A gang of about 100 armed Baluchis plundered the village of Avargeh on
the Kerman-Bam Road. Juma Khan Ismailzai is reported to have been their
leader. A mobile column of two companies of infantry and one squadron of
cavalry from the Kerman garrison was despatched to punish the raiders. The
^ gang, however, broke up into small parties and escaped to the hills.
It is said in Kerman that the raiders were armed with British rifles.
14. A miranian Oil Company.
Reference Intelligence Summary No. 8 (current), paragraph 8. Still no
suitable site for drilling operations appears to have been found. The drilling
machinery is now lying at Basra.
Geologists at Kalparkan (degree sheet 31 I, square C 4) are stated to have
discovered oil in the vicinity, only to find that they were several miles inside the
Baluchistan border.
15. Communications.
Reference Intelligence Summary No. 11 (current), paragraph 9. As a result
of the recent Bashagird operations, a motor road is being constructed from Bandar
Abbas to Minab (million sheet No. 25, square B 1).
Telephones. —A public telephone service between Tehran and Qum has been
inaugurated.
16. Refugees.
Reference Intelligence Summary No. 11 (current), paragraph 8. Ninety
more Iranian subjects have arrived in Julfa and 700 at Bandar Pahlavi from the
U.S.S.R.
17. Minerals.
Reference Intelligence Summary No. 3 (current), paragraph 7. The mines
at Anarak (million sheet No. 16, square B 3) are being rapidly developed by a
mining company under German contract. The Germans have been given a
concession, and are authorised to export 1,000 tons of nickel and 4,000 tons of
copper per annum to Germany in liquidation of the Iranian debt.
Copper and nickel is being exploited from the mines at Sahara, Baghereg.
Telmessi and Masgani (local place names in the Anarak area) A smelting
foundry has been set up at Telmessi and another is being constructed at Sahara.
Antimony is found in the mountains of Turhaman. south-east of Anarak.
Gold is also being mined.
Coal is found close at hand at Siah Kuh (million sheet No. 16. square B 4).
The Iranian Government is reported to have brought over 3 million reichs
marks of mining machinery from Ferosthal.
Ten German mining experts reside at Anarak and are paid high salaries.
The salaries of the Iranian staff are also paid on a
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
basis owing to
the trying climatic conditions.
Several of the mining areas are completely surrounded by barbed wire.
A post and telegraph office and a wireless station have been erected. The
branch of the Banque-i-Mellie at Yezd has opened a sub-branch at Anarak.
18. Factories.
(i) An ice
factory
An East India Company trading post.
is being constructed in Tehran by a German firm. The
plant is exclusively German. This will, provided it is sold at cheap prices, be
of value to the Tehran citizens, who at present use snow and ice collected in pits
during the winter months.
(ii) The jute
factory
An East India Company trading post.
at Resht has been enlarged to twice its original size.
19. Civil A viation.
(i) The Deutsche Lufthansa Berlin-Tehran-Kabul service continues to
operate regularly. Lately, however, the machines have taken to landing at the
military aerodrome in Meshed, which they had been instructed only to use in case
of emergency. These frequent landings are most unpopular, as all Iranian
military machines have hurriedly to be put out of sight.
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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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