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Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ [103v] (206/807)
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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2. Iranian Officials.
(i) His Excellency Musa Nouri Esfandiari (Mnvaffaq-es-Saltaneh) (ioreign
Office Personalities, No. 75). Director-General at the Ministry for Foreign an
has been appointed Iranian Minister to Iraq to fill an existing vacancy^
(ii) His Excellency Abdul Qasim Feroughar (Military Attache s Person
alities, No. 62 (i)—Foreign Office Personalities, No. 83) has oeen appointed
Minister of the Interior. . , r ,, x / 1 v/ r. r .
(iii) His Excellency Ali Mansur, C.B.E. (Mansur-ul-Mulk) (Military
Attache’s Personalities, No. 120 —Foreign Office Personalities, No. 119), has been
appointed Minister of Industries and Mines. . „ r ,.
(iv) His Excellency Abdullah Bahrami (Military Attache s Personalities,
No. 41 (i)—Foreign Office Personalities, No. 46) has been appointed Iranian
Minister at Brussels vice Taghi Nabavi (Muazziq-ud-Dowleh) (Military Attache s
Personalities, No. 139—Foreign Office Personalities, No. 133), recalled.
(v) A complete list of members of the Iranian Cabinet and other chief officials,
up to date, is attached as Appendix !(') to this summary.
3. Trans-Iranian Railway.
The Trans-Iranian Railway was officially completed by His Imperial
Majesty the Shah and the Crown Prince at 17 00 hours on Friday, the 26th
August, at Sefid Cheshme, near Iraq (Sultanabad). -r, j ^
The line which runs from Bandar Shah in the north to Bandar Shahpur i
the south was begun on the 15th October, 1927, and was completed on the 19
August 1938. A total of about ten years and eleven months.
°The total length of the line is 1,394-160 kilom. The cost of its construction
is approximately 2,400 million rials (nearly £30 million). t> r u
In 1927 the work of construction was entrusted to an American-1 ohsn
combine, who drew up the first plans and began the construction of the line between
Bandar Shahpur and Ahwaz. Their work was found unsatisfactory and ihe
Iranian Government continued the work themselves for two years, with the
assistance of foreign railway experts. This, too was found unsatisfactory^
Thereafter, the construction contract was awarded to the well-known .|4 anis ^
railway construction engineers, Messrs. Kampmann, Kierulfi and baxild and
Messrs. Saabye and Larche, and a Swedish firm, Messrs. Nydovist and Holm,
locomotive construction engineers, under the title of Consortium Kampsax
Consortium Kampsax, on receiving the contract, immediately divided tne
line into lots and sub-contracted the work out to different firms, both foreign and
Ii*cinicLH t
Two British firms, Messrs. Richard Costains (Limited) and Messrs. Nuttall,
Mowlem, Sons and Co. completed lots 6 and 7 respectively in Lunstan, south of
Iraq (Sultanabad), where enormously difficult tunnelling, &c., was involved.
These were perhaps the toughest sections of the whole line.
Under Consortium Kampsax the work of construction has been carried out
methodically and thoroughly. The line has actually been completed six months
ahead of the contract date. x ^ ,
The section Bandar Shah (Caspian seaport) to Tehran presented serious
engineering problems, the line having to be brought up from the Caspian Sea
fbelow sea level) to the Iranian Plateau, crossing the Elburz range of mountains
at a height of 2 109-10 metres. Ninety-three tunnels had to be excavated and
numerous viaducts and bridges constructed. The longest tunnel on this section
is 2 883 metres in length. A large force of Italian and Swiss expert labour was
eraplo^edcfor^e tunneUing Di^ui i^ (gultanabad) section through the moun-
tains of Luristan was also extremely difficult : 131 tunnels had to be constructed,
the maioritv having to be blasted out of solid rock. The longest tunnel is near
Chahar Darreh, and is 2.526 metres in length in the shape of a hOTS ^ ho e-
More than 10,000 tons of explosives have been used and between 40,000 and
50 000 Iranians have been continuously employed as labourers.
Experiments with seven different types of foreign-make locomotives are being
made Locomotives supplied by Messrs. Beyer-Peacock and Co. (Limited) of
Manchester and Nahab of Sweden are being used m the mountainous sections.
(*) Not printed.
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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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