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Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ [265v] (530/807)
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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3. Iranian Army.
(i) Keference Intelligence Summary No. 19 (current), paragraph 3 (iii) The
new Artillery Regiment is now made up of six batteries, viz.:— ^
4 batteries of 150 mm. (5-9-inch) long.
"1 batteries of 150 mm. short.
The number of the regiment is not as yet known.
(n) Sartip (Brigadier) Hussein Quli Khan Sitwati, G.O.C. No. 13 (Isfahan)
Division, has been transferred to Tabriz.
4. Iranian Navy.
1 he Imperial Government have officially notified His Majesty’s Government
that they have now installed lights at Bushire and Qais Island in the Persian
Gull, and will henceforward be responsible for maintaining lights at these
places.
5. Iranian Air Force.
(i) Reference Intelligence Summary No. 21 (current), paragraph 3 (i).
rurther details are now available as to this fatal accident. It appears that a
demonstration of bombing, machine-gunning and aerial combat was being carried
out near Qila Murgha aerodrome in the presence of H.I.M. the Shah, H.I.H the
Crown Prince and senior officers of the army and air force. Fury machines
attacked a flight of Hind aircraft, of which the machine piloted by Captain
Jehan was to go into a spin as if shot down. All went according to plan, but
Captain Jehan failed to pull his machine out of the spin and crashed from about
2,000 feet, bursting into flames. The occupants were instantaneously killed. No
ambulance or fire engine was ready for duty. The rest of the programme was
carried out as arranged. H.I.M. the Shah has sent the families of the deceased
officers the sum of 14,000 rials each from the Privy Purse and ordered special
pensions.
(ii) On the 20th October at Doshan Tappeh aerodrome a second Air Speed
Oxford machine crashed whilst taking off. The machine can, however, be again
made serviceable by borrowing parts from the machine which crashed on the
23rd September.
H.I.H. the Crown Prince, hearing of the accident, visited the aerodrome and
saw the damaged machines. As a result of his report to the Shah, Sartip
(Brigadier) Khosrovani, commanding the Imperial Iranian Air Force, was
imprisoned for ten days for making false reports as to the damage done to’ these
aircraft.
(iii) Recently several cross-country training flights in formation have been
satisfactorily carried out, as well as live-bombing practise. An eye-witness of
the latter states that good and much improved results were obtained."
(iv) Reference Intelligence Summary No. 20 (current), paragraph 4. On the
29th October the eighth “Hind ’’ machine out of twenty being erected at the
Shahbaz Aircraft
Factory
An East India Company trading post.
at Doshantappeh successfully completed its test
flight.
(v) Six of the newly completed “ Hind ” machines were unexpectedly flown
to Ahwaz on the 30th October. Bombing racks are being fitted there.
5. British Interests.
A representative of the United Kingdom Commercial Corporation, which
was originally formed to promote an exchange of goods between the United
Kingdom and the Balkan States, is shortly expected in Tehran to study the
possibilities of extending the work of the corporation to this country.
6. United States Interests.
Reference Intelligence Summary No. 21 (current), paragraph 7. The order
signed is for 140,000 tons of steel rails and accessories on behalf of Bethlehem
Steel, Colorado Steel and United States steel companies. The price per ton is
$46 f.o.b. United States of America, plus freight to Iranian Gulf ports, $18,
representing £16 per ton, as compared with a quotation of £17 per ton for
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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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